Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization

ASAFA JALATA Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Interim Chair of the Africana Studies Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. His expertise focuses on the area of global studies, development and international inequality, social movements, nationalism, terrorism studies, indigenous studies, and race and ethnicity. His research currently concentrates on the human rights of the indigenous peoples of the world. Professor Jalata is the author of Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty and Multinational Democracy (2010). He has published and edited eight books and authored sixty refereed articles in regional and international journals and book chapters.

• Introduction The Development of Black Nationalism The Oromo National Movement The Impact of U.S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements Beyond Nationalism: The Challenges of a Revolutionary Multicultural Democracy