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Fractured Solidarities: Mapping a Black Internationalist Imaginary, 1955 till Present

Odumboni, Oluwakayode
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1720797335511567

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
Fractured Solidarities maps out a historical trajectory of transatlantic solidarities between Africans and African Americans from the heyday of the civil rights movement and anti-colonial struggle in the mid-twentieth century to the present moment of technology-mediated social justice movements. The research is premised on my observation that analyses of black internationalism often bifurcate into these binary opposite arguments: it is either interpreted through the lens of antagonism, which privileges intra-racial discords between Africans and African Americans, or it is read through the lens of coalition, in which case emphasis is laid on the networks of collaboration between the two groups. My project, however, argues that these two interpretive lenses are not mutually exclusive but rather co-constitutive of the praxis of black internationalism since the mid-twentieth century. This dissertation, therefore, proposes what I call “Fractured Solidarities” as a conceptual framework for thinking through the project of global black solidarities that acknowledges the co-constitutive nature of coalition and contention in the make-up of transatlantic racial solidarity. Drawing on a variety of methodological approaches that cut across literary close-reading, archival research, film studies, digital humanities, and visual culture, this dissertation analyzes various genres and forms of cultural texts including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, and social media texts. This project intervenes in the scholarship on black internationalism by highlighting how the digital culture of the present moment has reshaped transnational black political activism and the praxis of social justice movements. Also, it contributes to the extensive scholarly conversation about Pan-Africanism by considering the ways in which less explored sources such as speculative fiction and social media open new vistas of interpretation for transatlantic solidarity between Africans and African Americans.
Adeleke Adeeko (Advisor)
Kwaku Korang (Committee Member)
Koritha Mitchell (Committee Member)
Pranav Jani (Committee Member)
168 p.
African American Studies; African Literature; African Studies
Black Internationalism; Pan-Africanism; Racial Solidarity; Global Blackness

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  • Odumboni, O. (2024). Fractured Solidarities: Mapping a Black Internationalist Imaginary, 1955 till Present [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1720797335511567

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Odumboni, Oluwakayode. Fractured Solidarities: Mapping a Black Internationalist Imaginary, 1955 till Present. 2024. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1720797335511567.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Odumboni, Oluwakayode. "Fractured Solidarities: Mapping a Black Internationalist Imaginary, 1955 till Present." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1720797335511567

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