Geographies of liberation: the making of an Afro-Arab political imaginary

In this transnational history Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East.

Spanning the 1850s to the present, and set against of major global political and cultural shifts, he demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks imagined their freedom and, conversely, the ways in which various Middle Eastern groups have understood and used the African American freedom struggle to shape their own political movements.