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Russell Rickford - Proxy Africa, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Proxy Africa

Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s

Av Russell Rickford

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Nestled between Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South America, and one of its youngest. Originally a Dutch colony, Guyana remained under British rule from the late eighteenth century until gaining independence in 1966 and becoming a republic in 1970. Apart from the 1978 mass murder-suicide of cult leader Jim Jones’s followers in Jonestown, Guyana has been mostly peripheral to mainstream geopolitics. Yet for a generation of Black revolutionaries from around the world, Guyana was a vibrant site of pan-African activism. The country was particularly attractive to veterans of the US civil rights movement who sought alternative places to construct flourishing postcolonial, pan-African nation-states.In this first, comprehensive history of Guyana’s core role in anticolonial, Black internationalist movements in the 1960s and 1970s, historian Russell Rickford traces the history of African Americans who traveled to the country to work with, learn from, and teach Guyanese politicians, activists, and other international figures in the long fight for Black freedom. With encouragement from Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, they eagerly accepted the invitation to move to Guyana to establish new cooperative settlements. Rickford compellingly narrates Guyana’s allure and promise for Black Americans, along with the limitations they faced when ideology clashed with lived realities—especially political ones—once there.
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Russell Rickford is associate professor of history at Cornell University.

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“This meticulous study from historian Rickford spotlights a dramatic time in Guyana, when the nation held a heightened international profile as a hub of pan-Africanism . . . . Wide-ranging and evenhanded, this offers a fascinating overview of a dynamic time and place.”—Publisher’s Weekly“In this richly researched, informative study of Guyana as a site of revolutionary aspirations, Rickford situates the country within a longer history of Pan-Africanism, Caribbean radicalism, and anticolonial solidarities. His analysis of the engagement of African American activists, exiles, travelers, and expatriates with Guyana is unsparing even as it takes their ideas and radical hopes seriously.”—Kevin K. Gaines, author of American Africans in Ghana“A wide-ranging exploration of the radical promises and deep contradictions of Pan-Africanist solidarity. Written with verve and clarity, A Proxy Africa remaps the contours of Pan-African imaginations and brings to the fore a neglected set of grassroots institutions and actors.”—Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking After Empire“Well-researched, well-written, and revelatory. The contribution to the field is overwhelming to the point that it carves out new territory, due in large part to Rickford’s granular research.”—Gerald Horne, author of Revolting Capital

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