Summary
Feldman’s name for a broad swath of post-civil rights cultural production that animated the Black freedom struggle’s international horizon through a sustained engagement with Palestine, enunciating an epistemic imperative to clarify and contest racial violence in U.S. imperial culture (A Shadow over Palestine, lines 377-379).
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Its three key iterations in chapter 2 are SNCC’s August 1967 “Third World Round-up,” the transnational traffic between the Black Panther Party and the PLO registered in the Panthers’ newspaper, and David Graham Du Bois’s … And Bid Him Sing (line 379).
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It diverged from the Afro-Zionist tradition that had informed liberal and radical Black politics and circulated alternative knowledge of the colonial conditions shaping Palestinian life (lines 191-193, 389-403).
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By 1979, in the wake of the Andrew Young affair, its structural critique was muted into a framework of racial inclusion in a pluralist society (lines 567-571).
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The primary text Feldman treats is the June-July 1967 SNCC Newsletter’s Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge, thirty-two numbered facts introduced as documented facts because the white American press seldom gives the true story of world events in which America is involved, and expressly as pertaining to the Black struggle at home (Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge — SNCC Newsletter Vol. I, No. 4 (June-July 1967), PDF p.4-5).
Related pages
A Shadow over Palestine, Black Panther Party, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Black–Palestinian solidarity