Duke University Press From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance. Review " From the Tricontinental to the Global South is particularly effective in its close reading of cultural texts and thus makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and cultural criticism. In centering Latin American and Black Radical intellectual and artistic traditions in its discussion of left transnational politics, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism, it effectively shifts the focus from Western Marxist traditions to racialized, oppressed, and dispossessed scholar-activists. Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Power studies, and subfields of history, sociology, and political science that focus on power relations, political organizing, and social movements will benefit from this framing." Author: Charisse Burden-Stelly Source: Black Perspectives Review “ From the Tricontinental to the Global South is a comprehensive, groundbreaking, and intellectually honest study of the Tricontinental's internationalist agenda for understanding the Global South's challenges to imperialism and racial oppression. Anne Garland Mahler outlines how social movements, politics, and artistic engagement and black internationalist reflection provide a necessary critical approach to a transnational political resistance in the fight against racial inequalities. From the Tricontinental to the Global South is an absolutely must-read for all committed to a Global South political and scholarly resistance.” Author: William Luis, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, Vanderbilt University From the Author Anne Garland Mahler is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. About the Author Anne Garland Mahler is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia.