From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity

by Anne Garland Mahler

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance.

Genres: Race, Politics, History

360 pages, Hardcover

Published May 11, 2018

Reviews

[Rachel Hackett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for my Global South seminar. An academic read, somewhat repetitive, but still helped me learn about an aspect of history that I knew almost nothing about.

[Catalina Bilandzija · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked this better than the first read for the class. Still have read better historical/political books. I did enjoy the middle of this book the most. End was good too. A bit wordy and repetitive.

[Mills College Library]

303.48217 M2149 2018