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Title
The legacy of anti-colonialist nationalism : reflections on Jawaharal Nehru's national philosophy and contemporary Indian cultural politics
Creator
Bhaskaran, Suparna
Date
1993
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Title
Anti-colonialism in the Michigan Chicano movement
Creator
Salas, Nora
Date
2015
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
In this dissertation I argue anti-colonial thought in Michigan’s Chicano Movement was a response to a domestic/migrant colonial discourse that operated on a local and state-wide level. Between 1962 and 1967 Mexican-Americans and other Latinos lobbied Michigan’s elected officials to gain the rights of industrial workers for seasonal agricultural workers. Their efforts were stymied by growers and the Michigan Farm Bureau. The MFB and its allies reinforced their opposition with a domestic...
Show moreIn this dissertation I argue anti-colonial thought in Michigan’s Chicano Movement was a response to a domestic/migrant colonial discourse that operated on a local and state-wide level. Between 1962 and 1967 Mexican-Americans and other Latinos lobbied Michigan’s elected officials to gain the rights of industrial workers for seasonal agricultural workers. Their efforts were stymied by growers and the Michigan Farm Bureau. The MFB and its allies reinforced their opposition with a domestic/migrant colonial binary that defined all Mexican-Americans as foreigners and justifiably colonized. By 1968 Chicano anti-colonialism emerged in Michigan to counter this colonial discourse through organizing, literature and art. I contend that the development of anti-colonial thought amongst Chicanos in Michigan demonstrates that Mexican-Americans experienced colonialism not only in the immediate aftermath of the Mexican-American War or in former Mexican territory. This dissertation demonstrates the viability of a different history wherein colonialism was not contained in the Southwest as a short-lived exception to American liberalism. By situating Michigan Chicano Movement anti-colonialism as a response to a locally based colonial discourse I emphasize the ways in which a critique of American imperialism was central to the Chicano Movement nationwide. Furthermore Michigan Chicanos and Chicanas experienced multiple forms of colonial domination. They were not only workers excluded from the public sphere of benefits and rights but also lived as families whose private sphere was compromised. In addition to racializing Chicanos as foreigners the domestic/migrant colonial binary gendered Chicano families as dependent, needy and ultimately female. Chicano anti-colonialism also presented a gendered narrative whose history has often been seen as synonymous with patriarchy. Instead I argue that Chicana and Chicano uses of anti-colonial ideals, especially la familia de la raza, included more liberatory possibilities.
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Title
No a la celebració del genocidi : no al "Vo Centenario"
Date
1992
Collection
Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description
Top left of poster shows world map with areas colonized by Spain colored red. A larger image to the right shows street protesters marching against the fifth centenary celebration of the arrival of Spanish financed explorers in the New World in 1492 which resulted in the genocide of indigenous populations in the areas involved. A large red star appears at the top of that image. Ink is black and red.
Title
Das letzte Wort wird nicht im Gerichtssaal gesprochen : Veranstaltung zum Ende des Prozesses gegen Fantasia/IVK in der Gaststätte, Friedenau, Stuttgart, Rotenbergstr. 127, am 11.3.80, 19:30 : zur Entwicklung im Prozess und seinem politischen Zusammenh...
Date
1980
Collection
Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description
Poster shows a black and white image of fourteen men [and one woman?] surrounding the American flag (colorized red and blue) as it is desecrated. Ink is red, blue, and black.
Title
Aufruf
Date
1973
Collection
Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description
This poster is a call to action by the Committees against the Torture of Political Prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany and the capital city of Berlin. Includes descriptions of various torture methods used in West Germany and West Berlin against prisoners believed to be active in anti-imperialist movements. It points out that these prisoners are not afforded that same human rights as other prisoners. It calls on people to try to visit political prisoners, to spread the word about...
Show moreThis poster is a call to action by the Committees against the Torture of Political Prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany and the capital city of Berlin. Includes descriptions of various torture methods used in West Germany and West Berlin against prisoners believed to be active in anti-imperialist movements. It points out that these prisoners are not afforded that same human rights as other prisoners. It calls on people to try to visit political prisoners, to spread the word about their circumstances and torture, and to work with the commitees to help stop the torture of political prisoners.
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Title
Fora la legislació antiterrorista : contra el terrorisme dels etats imperialistas
Date
1980/1989
Collection
Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description
Black and white poster shows a man cying out while being tortured. He is hanging upside-down from a bar by his calves. His hands appear to be tied to his ankles. At top right of poster is a black star with a white fist in the center. Curved about that logo is "Comitè Català de Solidaritat Internacionalista." Printed below logo and slanting downward left to right to left is "Solidaritat Internacionalista." Calls for an end to the terrorism of imperialist states.
Title
Krieg dem imperialistischen Krieg : wir Chaoten haben eine lange Tradition
Date
1986
Collection
Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description
Poster shows multiple images of armed fighting in unidentified places. Top left has a man with a flag marked [Freedom?]. Top right has "Imperialismus" surrounded by images of the Nazi swastika, the American flag, the German eagle, and a snarling German shepherd dog. Large central figure dressed in red is pointing at the viewer. Bottom has emblem of Antifaschistische Aktion (circle with outer black right and white center with two flags--one red, one black). Some smaller print is illegible. Ink...
Show morePoster shows multiple images of armed fighting in unidentified places. Top left has a man with a flag marked [Freedom?]. Top right has "Imperialismus" surrounded by images of the Nazi swastika, the American flag, the German eagle, and a snarling German shepherd dog. Large central figure dressed in red is pointing at the viewer. Bottom has emblem of Antifaschistische Aktion (circle with outer black right and white center with two flags--one red, one black). Some smaller print is illegible. Ink is red and black.
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Title
Jornadas anti-imperialista e de apoio à luta do povo de Angola
Date
1975/197x
Collection
Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description
Poster shows an Angolan guerilla fighter wearing a headscarf, rifle slung over the left shoulder, right fist raised high, defiantly determined facial expression. Lists the details regarding two gatherings in support of the Angolan fight against imperialism. Ink is red and black.
Title
Solidarität mit dem Kampf der politischen Gefangenen : 18.10.77 Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, und Jan Carl Raspe in Stammheim ermordet : wir haben gesagt ... der Kampt geht weiter : d.h. den antiimperialistischen Widerstand in den Metropolen aufbauen!
Date
1984
Collection
Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description
Poster shows pictures of three late RAF members (Ensslin, Baader, and Raspe) beside a larger black and white image of 8 masked or hooded men burning the American flag. Lower section of poster shows five men: two in front carrying rifles, one in a police or military uniform, the last two (possibly hostages) wearing business suits. Lower right corner shows the emblem of the Rote Armee Fraktion which is a red star overlaid with the image of a submachine gun over which the uppercase letters RAF...
Show morePoster shows pictures of three late RAF members (Ensslin, Baader, and Raspe) beside a larger black and white image of 8 masked or hooded men burning the American flag. Lower section of poster shows five men: two in front carrying rifles, one in a police or military uniform, the last two (possibly hostages) wearing business suits. Lower right corner shows the emblem of the Rote Armee Fraktion which is a red star overlaid with the image of a submachine gun over which the uppercase letters RAF appear in white. Ink is red and black.
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