Ameer Chasib Furaih is an instructor at Baghdad University/ College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for Human Sciences.

“Ameer Chasib Furaih is to be congratulated for his masterful contribution to forging transcontinental cultural links between Aboriginal Australian and African American literatures. This is the kind of global network that matters among peoples fighting for cultural and political autonomy, and he makes a compelling case for how this network is strengthened through literary activism.” — Stephen Muecke, Nulungu Research Institute, Broome, Western Australia.“Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States engages an important era of grassroots activism and poetic experimentation from which we still have much to learn. The book’s purposeful juxtapositions productively situate Indigenous Australian responses to settler colonialism within transnational and global contexts.” —Chadwick Allen, author of TransIndigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies.An invaluable contribution to the study of transnationalism and Blackness, the global history of the Civil Rights era, United States and Australian literary connections … the relationship between poetry and politics, and individual studies of each poet. —JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

• Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Transpacific Political Connections; 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Interdisciplinary Poetics (1920–1993); 4. Amiri Baraka and the “Saturation of Blackness” (1934–2014); 5. Sonia Sanchez: Between Black Nationalism and “Womanist” Poetics (1943–); 6. Lionel Fogarty’s Multivalent Identitarian Poetics (1958–) 7. Conclusions; Appendix A: A Final Note about the Interview; Appendix B: Ethical Clearance; Approval Form; References; Index

Ameer Chasib Furaih is an instructor at Baghdad University/ College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for Human Sciences.

“Ameer Chasib Furaih is to be congratulated for his masterful contribution to forging transcontinental cultural links between Aboriginal Australian and African American literatures. This is the kind of global network that matters among peoples fighting for cultural and political autonomy, and he makes a compelling case for how this network is strengthened through literary activism.” — Stephen Muecke, Nulungu Research Institute, Broome, Western Australia.“Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States engages an important era of grassroots activism and poetic experimentation from which we still have much to learn. The book’s purposeful juxtapositions productively situate Indigenous Australian responses to settler colonialism within transnational and global contexts.” —Chadwick Allen, author of TransIndigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies.An invaluable contribution to the study of transnationalism and Blackness, the global history of the Civil Rights era, United States and Australian literary connections … the relationship between poetry and politics, and individual studies of each poet. —JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

• Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Transpacific Political Connections; 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Interdisciplinary Poetics (1920–1993); 4. Amiri Baraka and the “Saturation of Blackness” (1934–2014); 5. Sonia Sanchez: Between Black Nationalism and “Womanist” Poetics (1943–); 6. Lionel Fogarty’s Multivalent Identitarian Poetics (1958–) 7. Conclusions; Appendix A: A Final Note about the Interview; Appendix B: Ethical Clearance; Approval Form; References; Index

Ameer Chasib Furaih is an instructor at Baghdad University/ College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for Human Sciences.

“Ameer Chasib Furaih is to be congratulated for his masterful contribution to forging transcontinental cultural links between Aboriginal Australian and African American literatures. This is the kind of global network that matters among peoples fighting for cultural and political autonomy, and he makes a compelling case for how this network is strengthened through literary activism.” — Stephen Muecke, Nulungu Research Institute, Broome, Western Australia.“Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States engages an important era of grassroots activism and poetic experimentation from which we still have much to learn. The book’s purposeful juxtapositions productively situate Indigenous Australian responses to settler colonialism within transnational and global contexts.” —Chadwick Allen, author of TransIndigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies.An invaluable contribution to the study of transnationalism and Blackness, the global history of the Civil Rights era, United States and Australian literary connections … the relationship between poetry and politics, and individual studies of each poet. —JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

• Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Transpacific Political Connections; 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Interdisciplinary Poetics (1920–1993); 4. Amiri Baraka and the “Saturation of Blackness” (1934–2014); 5. Sonia Sanchez: Between Black Nationalism and “Womanist” Poetics (1943–); 6. Lionel Fogarty’s Multivalent Identitarian Poetics (1958–) 7. Conclusions; Appendix A: A Final Note about the Interview; Appendix B: Ethical Clearance; Approval Form; References; Index