We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation by Biondi, Martha
We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation by Biondi, Martha

We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation

Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt. For many...
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Author: Martha Biondi
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation by Biondi, Martha

We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation

$111.99 $59.11
We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation by Biondi, Martha

We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation

$111.99 $59.11
Author: Martha Biondi
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt.

For many civil rights activists, the Vietnam War brought the dangers of US imperialism and the global nature of antiracist struggle into sharp relief. Martha Biondi tells the story of one such group of activists who built an internationalist movement in Chicago committed to liberation everywhere but especially to ending colonialism and apartheid in Africa.

Among their leaders was Prexy Nesbitt. Steeped from an early age in stories of Garveyism and labor militancy, Nesbitt was powerfully influenced by his encounters with the exiled African radicals he met in Dar es Salaam, London, and across the United States. Operating domestically and abroad, Nesbitt's cohort worked closely with opponents of Portuguese and white minority rule in Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. Rather than promoting a US conception of Black self-determination, they took ideas from African anticolonial leaders and injected them into US foreign policy debates.

The biography of a man but even more so of a movement, We Are Internationalists reveals the underappreciated influence of a transformative Black solidarity project.

Author: Martha Biondi
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780520417717


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/02/2026

About the Author
Martha Biondi is Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of The Black Revolution on Campus and To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City.
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