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In the last few decades, collective actions among people of African descent have emerged and intensified. The defeat of apartheid in South Africa and the election of the first African American president of the United States—forty years after the civil rights movement toppled legal segregation—signified powerful global transformations in how race is lived. Why have collective actions among African-descended people expanded at this time? What questions do these actions raise about how we think about coalitions, transformations, and social movements?
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Mullings, L. (2009). Introduction: Reframing Global Justice. In: Mullings, L. (eds) New Social Movements in the African Diaspora. The Critical Black Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230104570_1
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