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Book SynopsisA collection of powerful BIPOC voices who offer a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions to think with.
We must, as For Antifascist Futures urges, take antifascism as a major imperative of movements for social change. But we must not limit our analysis or historical understanding of the rise of the right-wing authoritarianism in our times by rooting it in mid-twentieth century Europe.
For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis takes seriously what is new in this moment of politics, exploring what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the twenty-first century authoritarian convergence by centering the material and speculative labor of antifascist and antiracist social movement coalitions. By focusing on the long history of BIPOC antifascist resistance that has been overlooked in both recent conversations about racial justice as well as antifascist resistance, the essays, interviews, and documents included here make clear how racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule.
By linking a deep engagement, both scholarly and practical, of racial justice movements with an antifascist frame, and a global analysis of capitalism the contributors have assembled a powerful toolbox for our struggles. The editors, widely recognized ethnic and American studies scholars, offer a groundbreaking collection with contributions from Johanna Fernandez, Manu Karuka, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Zoé Samudzi, and Macarena Gomez-Barris, among others.
Trade Review"This extraordinary volume ranges over a planetary geography and deeply engages historical formations and trajectories of fascism and antifascism. The authors, writing in a variety of genres and from many fields of study, illuminate the makings of racialized violence, the role of untruths, post-truths, and ideologies, the afterlives and ongoing effects of colonial force, and the role of capital accumulation in the making of modern varieties of fascism. Every page of
For Antifascist Futures forces us to face and reckon with the lacerating effects of fascist power on the body politic”—
Laleh Khalili, author of
Sinews of War and Trade and
Time in the Shadows
"Globalizing and reframing fascisms on a world scale, this urgent and powerful volume analyzes fascism as the convergence of authoritarian state and extralegal racial nationalist violence responding to the historical and material crises of capitalism and imperialism. The collection constellates a stunning range of antifascist practices, from Black radical internationalism, anticolonial movements, and insurgencies in the Philippines, Palestine, and South Asia, and across Latin America and Africa, on the one hand, to a long history of antifascisms and racial justice movements in the U.S. and Indigenous demands for return of stolen land, on the other.”—
Lisa Lowe, author of
The Intimacies of Four Continents
“
For Antifascist Futures is a searing and necessary collection for our times. The precise and unsparing indictment of fascism—and its enduring entanglements in imperialist and capitalist expansion—is the urgent world-making project that we all need. By deftly engaging the analytic of fascism across time and geography, this constellation of intellectually & politically fierce essays narrates a simultaneously sobering and inspiring political vision of internationalist antifascism against authoritarianism. This book is a tour de force.”—
Harsha Walia, author of
Border and Rule and
Undoing Border ImperialismTable of ContentsIntroduction Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo, Fascism Now?: Inquiries for an Expanded Frame
1. Nadia Abu El-Haj, The Banality of Knowledge
2. Anne Spice, blood memory: the criminalization of Indigenous land defense
3. Allan E. S. Lumba, Left Alone with the Colony
4. Sónia Vaz Borges and Filipa César, Militant Mangrove School
5. Zoé Samudzi
6. Simón Ventura Trujillo
7. Macarena Gómez-Barris, At the Razor’s Edge of Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and Decolonial International Feminisms
8. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, The Resurgent Far Right and the Black Feminist Struggle for Social Democracy in Brazil
9. Manu Karuka, Fighting Hate by Fighting for Dignity: An Interview with Subin Dennis
10. Elspeth Iralu and Dolly Kikon, Colonization Calls My Home a Disturbed Area: A Conversation
11. Dian Million
12. Johanna Fernández, On the Historical Roots of US Fascism
13. Charisse Burden-Stelly, Claudia Jones, the Longue Durée of McCarthyism, and the Threat of U.S. Fascism
Chapter 14. Alberto Toscano, The Returns of Racial Fascism
Chapter 15. Cristien Storm and Kate Boyd / If You Don’t They Will, Antifascist Organizing and the “no. NOT EVER”Project
Chapter 16. Léopold Lambert
Chapter 17. Nicole Nguyen and Yazan Zahzah, “Make Fascism Great Again!”: Mapping the Conceptual Work of “Fascism” in the War on Terror
Chapter 18. Joe Lowndes and Nikhil Pal Singh interviewed by Daniel Denvir, Right Riot: A Conversation after the January 2021 Siege on the U.S. Capital
Chapter 19. Alyosha Goldstein, The Anti-Imperialist Horizon
Appendix Vaughn Rasberry, Colonial Fascisms: A Syllabus
