Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective

Alison Holland is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published two monographs: Just Relations. The Story of Mary Bennett’s Crusade for Aboriginal Rights (2015) and Breaking the Silence. Aboriginal Defenders and the Settler State, 1905–1939 (2019). She is the editor of Rethinking the Racial Moment. Essays on the Colonial Encounter (2012). She is currently writing a history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and is on the editorial board of Black Histories: Dialogues.Christopher J. Lee is an independent scholar who has published twelve books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966–1985 (2024). He is currently the lead editor of the journal Safundi.

Approaching antiracism as a global phenomenon with deep historical roots, the editors have put together a fascinating collection that illuminates the extraordinary heterogeneity of anti-racist thought, movements and legislation. Bringing radical, indigenous and diasporic perspectives into conversation, the Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective is at once a major educational resource and an important activists’ handbook.Professor Laura Chrisman, Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English, Washington UniversityFramed in terms of the dialectical struggles between racism and antiracism the Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective offers a wide-ranging collection of studies on histories of antiracism. The volume includes strong analyses of antiracism in long and well-documented contexts as well as those much less commonly discussed. In this it offers a compelling resource for both pedagogical and research purposes. A valuable resource, especially in our current moment, for understanding antiracism, historically and contemporarily.Professor David Theo Goldberg, Distinguished Professor University of California, IrvineDrawing on a global set of case studies, across two-hundred years, the Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective gives us a vital, long overdue, account of how race and its opponents built the modern world. Never losing sight of the historic pliability of race, Alison Holland and Christopher J. Lee demonstrate that antiracism is as diverse and evolving as the system of control, domination and hierarchisation it opposes. This is activist history at its best.Dr Jon Piccini, Senior Lecturer, Australian Catholic University

• Prologue: A Song of Hope; Introduction: Why Antiracism in Historical Perspective Part I Anti-Slavery and Anti-Lynching as Antiracism 1. Abolishing the ‘Inhuman Distinction of Colors’ 2. Against Race: Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Part II Early Twentieth Century Antiracism 3. Harold Moody: The League of Coloured Peoples and Black British Antiracism 4. Landscapes of Exclusion: Chinese Canadians and the Structural Challenges of Anti-Racist Activism in British Columbia 5. Arturo Schomburg and the Building of an Antiracist Archive 6. From Anti-Semitism to Anti-Colonialism: The Evolution of Soviet Antiracism Part III Anticolonialism and Antiracism between the Wars 7. Anticolonialism and Black Radicalism in the 1930s 8. The Communist Party of Australia, Trade Unions and the Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, 1920 -1939 9. International Communism, Anticolonialism and Antiracism between the First and Second World Wars Part IV Antiracism after World War II 10. The ‘Gigantic Unpredictable’: Reading Empire with C.L.R. James 11. The Antiracism of Frantz Fanon 12. Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s Lifelong and Transnational Fight against Racism 13. The Legacy of the Mau Mau: An Ongoing Fight Against Colonialism and Racism in Kenya 14. Slow Steps, Compromises and Blind Spots in the Development of Ashley Montagu’s Antiracism 15. Black Sisters on Whose Shoulders We Stand: a Passion to Fight Apartheid Injustice – Some Reflections Part V Human Rights and Antiracism 16. Advocating for Justice, Confronting Racism: Japanese Canadian Resistance, Community and the Language of Human Rights During and After World War II 17. Anticolonialism, Antiracism and Human Rights 18. Human Rights and Antiracism in Australia: Indigenising a Movement, 1930-1950 Part VI Black Power as Antiracism 19. The Black Consciousness Critique of Europe 20. The Brazilian Black Movement in Historical Perspective 21. Black Power in Britain: An Introductory History VII Antiracism in National Settings 22. Reconsidering US Antiracism: 1945-1970 23. Arab Americans, Palestinian Solidarity, and Antiracism, 1960s-1980s 24. Not Blacks, but Citizens: Antiracism and the 1959 Cuban Revolution 25. Antiracism in France 26. Swedish Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Phantom’s Role in Comics and Activism 27. Confronting Anti-Muslim Racism in the US Part VIII The Past in the Present: Contemporary Antiracisms 28. Critical Race Theory’s Essentialist Flaws: An Insider’s Reflections and Provocation 29. Antiracism in Latin America: Alternative Grammars and Racialized Class Consciousness 30. Contemporary Antiracism and Policing: Duty of Care and Legacies of Colonial Power in Australia and Fiji 31. Antiracist Feminism and Queer of Colour Activism in the Nordic Region 32. From Equality of Opportunity to Equality as a Result: Evaluating Antiracist Ideologies in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Epilogue – Palestine is a Volcano: On the Power of Anticolonial & Antiracist Resistance; Afterword – ‘Universities v Protest: A letter from a lesser alumnus’