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).

“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.” • Marta Araújo, University of Coimbra

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the TextAbbreviations and Glossary of OrganisationsIntroduction: Tracing Black LisbonChapter 1. First Steps: O Negro, Republican Mobilisation and Radical InternationalismChapter 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 1926Chapter 5. Pragmatism and Survival: The Unitary Nationalist African MovementConclusion: The End of Independent Black VoicesBibliographyIndex