Framing a radical African Atlantic : : African American agency, West African intellectuals, and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers / / Holger Weiss.

• Superior document: Studies in Global Social History, Volume 14
• Author: Weiss, Holger.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (768 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Framing a Radical African Atlantic Holger Weiss presents a critical outline and analysis of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) and the attempts by the Communist International (Comintern) to establish an anticolonial political platform in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period. It is the first presentation about the organization and its activities, investigating the background and objectives, the establishment and expansion of a radical African (black) Atlantic network between 1930 and 1933, the crisis in 1933 when the organization was relocated from Hamburg to Paris, the attempt to reactivate the network in 1934 and 1935 and its final dissolution and liquidation in 1937-38.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Prologue -- 1. The Communist International and the ‘Negro Question’ -- 2. A Communist Agitator in West Africa? -- 3. The Sixth Comintern Congress and the Negro Question -- 4. Moscow 1929–1930: The Negro Bureau, the (Provisional) -- 5. Towards a Global Agenda: The ITUCNW and the World Negro Workers Conference -- 6. From Hamburg to Moscow and via Berlin to Hamburg -- 7. The ITUCNW in the RILU- and CI-apparatus, 1930–1933 -- 8. The Radical African Atlantic, 1930–1933: Writing Class, Thinking Race -- 9. Mission Impossible? The Collapse and Rebirth of the Radical Atlantic Network -- 10. Our Comrades in West Africa -- 11. Moscow’s Final Call—and Yet Another New Start? -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.