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Book SynopsisThe first book to tell the full history of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles.
Trade ReviewThe quest for land and justice by the members of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) organization forms the heart of Edward Onaci's monograph. Their journey intersects with elements of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter movements in ways that should make us think deeper about the intellectual, cultural, and social contours of the longer Black Freedom movement."—
Society for U.S. Intellectual History"In
Free the Land, Onaci reorients histories of African American territorial nationalism. . . . By focusing on the changes in New Afrikan lives, Onaci foregoes the well-laid path of histories of the Black Power movement. . . .
Free the Land, ultimately, demonstrates that even when politics seems to be about something as traditional as acquiring land, it is also about the unseen labor of building a movement and about the transformation of the lives of its constituents."3
The Baffler
