Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity , Lenni Brenner, Matthew Quest (eBook) and Black & Palestine w/ Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt Jr and Tasneem Siddiqui (Video Edu.)

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023RBG Street Scholar 2 Comments

Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity is a collection of selected essays by Lenni Brenner and Matthew Quest that discusses the historical response of African American freedom movements to the colonial settler state of Israel and its role in American Imperialism in the Middle East. Among other topics and controversies, these essays provide independent analysis of Stokely Carmichael, James Forman, the Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, Harold Cruse, the Nation of Islam, Israel’s relationship to Apartheid South Africa, and the recent conflict between Alice Walker and the Anti-Defamation League. Brenner and Quest offer concise portraits of the Palestine freedom movement, the meanings of Zionism, and Black-Jewish disputes about ethnic pluralism in the United States. Through nuanced discussions of racism, capitalism, imperialism, and state power, their work helps to clarify one of the most controversial legacies of the Black Power movement.

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Malcolm X On the Mau Mau and Kenya’s War of Independence: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990 with Supplemental: Why Kenya’s Mau Mau gave up their fight, by Anaïs Angelo

December 11, 2023May 18, 2025RBG Street Scholar 1 Comment

Reading herein: Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration. Edited by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo and John Lonsdale

MAU MAU FIELD MARSHAL MWARIAMA MEETS PRIME MINISTER JOMO KENYATTA (1963)

“Kenyatta’s relationship to the movement was ambiguous. The British arrested him in 1952 on suspicion of being one of its leaders. But after independence his pleas to “forgive and forget the past” were often accompanied by a clear dissociation from the Mau Mau. He continued to describe them as a “disease” and they remained banned under Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi”…From the Supplemental below.