The Rise of Emancipatory/Raza Internationalism
Explain the interlocution of the oppression of African and Indigenous people in the making of the Americas. How does the notion of the creation of the negro/indian as well as the writings of Natalia Molina help to explain this shared oppression?
Returning to the writings of Molina and Cedric Robinson, how does the maroon societies/quilombos, as well as other forms of African and Indigenous resistance to colonialism and slavery, in Latin America, represent a counterscript, to the creation of the negro/indian by colonialism and slavery? How does raza internationalism and/or emancipatory internationalism help us define these black and brown radical traditions?
How does the Haitian Revolution, Mexican War for Independence, US-based abolitionist movement, as well as the other antislavery and anticolonial actions of the 19th century resolve the contradictions of the Age of Enlightenment?
Historian Leon Litwack once noted that the Radical Reconstruction, in the US, was overthrown because “it was a sign of success, not a sign of incompetence.” In these terms, explain the American overthrow of African and Mexican/Latinx independence in the 19th century.
