Date of Award
5-12-2024
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
African American Studies
Advisor(s)
Horace Campbell
Keywords
African History;Black Internationalism;Durban Conference;International Law;Pan Africanism;Political organizing
Subject Categories
African Studies | International and Area Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
Black people have been at the center of the liberation struggle since the transatlantic slave trade that saw black people as property. The various forms of resistance within the struggle have taken many shapes, from jumping off the slave ships in the Atlantic to breaking tools and refusing to work to outright organized resistance that led to a revolution in Haiti that defeated slavery, colonization, and white supremacy that made capital accumulation based on the dehumanization of black people possible. Because the transatlantic slave trade was a global project, black people have demanded nothing short of an international recognition of the consequences of the slave trade on the peoples of African descent, wherever they may be. Using black internationalism and intersectionality as a road map, the analysis argues that it is the consequence of enslavement as an international project and the evolution of global capital that the global anti-racist movement has fought, literally and symbolically, to put on the international agenda. While focusing on the Black freedom and the anti-apartheid struggle, the analysis highlights how various anti-racist movements and people of African descent have crossed paths in the pursuit of the struggle and collective emancipation, leading to the production of ICERD in 1965 and the Durban Declaration in 2001 that have addressed the racial question at different historical moments at the international stage.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Shukuru, Aimee Beatrice, "FROM HAITI TO DURBAN: REPAIRING THE CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY" (2024). Theses - ALL. 885.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/885
