Black Lisbon The Making of Anticolonial Internationalism in Portugal, 1910-1940
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Biografisk notat
Richard Cleminson is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has worked on the history of labour movements, the history of sexuality and, more recently, on Lusophone anticolonial movements and their wider international connections. His most recent books include Anarquismo y homosexualidad. Antología de artículos de la Revista Blanca, Generación Consciente, Estudios e Iniciales (1924-1935) (2024) and Anarchism and eugenics: An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940 (2019).<p>
<em>“This manuscript makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lisbon as a hub for discussions on Black emancipation in Europe during the first half of the 20th century. It situates Portugal within the broader context of Black and African struggles, making a vital contribution to emerging scholarly work that explores the connections between movements against colonialism and racial discrimination in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.”</em> <strong>• Marta Araújo</strong>, University of Coimbra</p>
In Black Lisbon, Richard Cleminson traces the local and transnational intersections between peoples in Portugal and across the Portuguese African empire, in order to interrogate the development of movements based in Lisbon that resisted or sought to reconfigure colonialism. He analyses how ‘race’ and nation were conceptualised, mobilised and lived by colonised black Africans in Lisbon and in the Portuguese colonies across time. Integral to this inquiry is the siting of ‘colonial-questioning’ movements in Portugal as part of organizations and publications within other racialised and imperial spaces. To what degree did movements in Black Lisbon accommodate their demands to Portuguese colonial prerogatives? How far did organizations adopt visions of a decentralised ‘Greater Portugal’ or a federal Africa?
An analysis of how ‘race’ and nation were conceptualised, mobilised and lived by colonised black Africans in Lisbon and in the Portuguese colonies across time.
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
Abbreviations and Glossary of Organisations
Introduction: Tracing Black Lisbon
Chapter 1. First Steps: O Negro, Republican Mobilisation and Radical Internationalism
Chapter 2. A Politics of Ambivalence at the Centre of Empire: The Junta for the Defence of African Rights (1912–1913)
Chapter 3. Disaggregation, Renovation and Interim Organisation: The Demise of the Junta and the Creation of the Liga Africana (1914–1919)
Chapter 4. Between Mobilisation and Military Rule: Black African Movements between 1919 and 1926
Chapter 5. Pragmatism and Survival: The Unitary Nationalist African Movement
Conclusion: The End of Independent Black Voices
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Index