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SUMMARY:Book Talk with author Prof. Martha Biondi (Northwestern)
DESCRIPTION:Event information:\n\nBook Talk with author Prof. Martha Biondi 
 (Northwestern)\, We are the Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight 
 for African Liberation (2025)\nDiscussant Prof. Peter Alegi (MSU)\nSpecial 
 Guest: Prexy Nesbitt \n\nWednesday\, October 29 @ 3pm – 4:30pm 
 (virtual)\n\nAbout the author:\n\nMartha Biondi is the Lorraine H. Morton 
 Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History. A scholar of 20th 
 century African American history\, Biondi is the author of the 
 award-winning To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar 
 New York City and The Black Revolution on Campus\, which tells the story of 
 the Black student movement of the late 1960s and the rise of Black Studies 
 and affirmative action. Hew new book We Are Internationalists: Prexy 
 Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation describes solidarity 
 organizing for southern African national liberation struggles.\n\nAbout the 
 book:\n\nExplores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles 
 through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt. \n \nFor many civil 
 rights activists\, the Vietnam War brought the dangers of US imperialism 
 and the global nature of antiracist struggle into sharp relief. Martha 
 Biondi tells the story of one such group of activists who built an 
 internationalist movement in Chicago committed to liberation everywhere but 
 especially to ending colonialism and apartheid in Africa.\n \nAmong their 
 leaders was Prexy Nesbitt. Steeped from an early age in stories of 
 Garveyism and labor militancy\, Nesbitt was powerfully influenced by his 
 encounters with the exiled African radicals he met in Dar es Salaam\, 
 London\, and across the United States. Operating domestically and abroad\, 
 Nesbitt's cohort worked closely with opponents of Portuguese and white 
 minority rule in Mozambique\, Angola\, and South Africa. Rather than 
 promoting a US conception of Black self-determination\, they took ideas 
 from African anticolonial leaders and injected them into US foreign policy 
 debates.\n \nThe biography of a man but even more so of a movement\, We Are 
 Internationalists reveals the underappreciated influence of a 
 transformative Black solidarity project.
ORGANIZER;CN="Erik Ponder":MAILTO:ponderer@msu.edu
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CONTACT;CN="Erik Ponder":MAILTO:ponderer@msu.edu
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