"The idea that African Americans constitute a nation within a nation has long been a mainstay of Black political thought and practice. In this trenchant exploration of the internal colony thesis, one iteration of this wider idea, Sam Klug demonstrates that comparison to the colonial condition produced a shared if contested vocabulary among New Deal policymakers and Black Power activists alike. With a razor-sharp delineation of the uses and meanings which accrued to the internal colony, Klug powerfully centers decolonization’s significance for American politics and documents the persistence of Black internationalism."
