Amanda Joyce Hall

“Struggle for Another World” tells the story of South Africa’s anti-Apartheid struggle as a global Black-led movement. A paradigmatic international fight against worldwide formations of racial injustice, the movement shook the foundations of South Africa’s Apartheid regime. In contrast to existing accounts that largely depict anti-Apartheid as a phenomenon of white solidarity, “Struggle for Another World” offers new solidarity frameworks to describe how South African exiles, politicians, students, workers, artists, and organizers grew a trans-continental movement, built coalitions in tension, and amassed political power across racial, ethnic, and class divisions. Black activists used global-local organizing to challenge Apartheid in South Africa and parallel, analogous manifestations of Apartheid in their own spaces of politics, sport, music, and popular culture. Between 1960 and 1990, anti-Apartheid’s global Black-led front assembled a seismic coalition that isolated the white supremacist regime and simultaneously fought to abolish a world of ubiquitous apartheids.