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John Munro

University of Birmingham, History, Faculty Member

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University of Birmingham, History, Faculty MemberUniversity of Rostock, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow |

Address: Birmingham, England

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Books

Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944, eds. Kirrily Freeman and John Munro (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): https://tinyurl.com/yyuhc9xw

The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonization, 1945–1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2017): http://bit.ly/2Eortbn

This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black... more This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.

Papers

'Conclusion,' in Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944, eds. Kirrily Freeman and John Munro (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020): 231-240..

“Remembering Jack O’Dell,” Global African Worker (November 2019): https://tinyurl.com/tb6ugdd

"Truths My Teachers Told Me," in What Moves Us: The Life and Times of the Radical Imagination, eds., Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven (Halifax: Fernwood, 2017)

"Neoliberalism and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in a North American City," Global Urban History (08 December 2016): https://tinyurl.com/y389mxxb

“Anticolonialism, Antifascism, and Imperial History,” Imperial and Global Forum (29 June 2015): https://tinyurl.com/y4blskv2

“Imperial Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement in the Early Cold War,” History Workshop Journal 79 (April 2015): 52-75.

“Class Struggle and Self-Determination at Political Affairs: An Intellectual History of Communist Anticolonialism in the United States, 1945-1960,” in Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, eds. Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015): 87-105.

‘“As Its Foundations Totter’: International Imperialism, Gendered Racial Capitalism, and the US Literary Left in the Early Cold War,” in The Material of World History, eds. Tina Chen and David Churchill (New York: Routledge, 2015): 72-88.

Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944, eds. Kirrily Freeman and John Munro (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): https://tinyurl.com/yyuhc9xw

The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonization, 1945–1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2017): http://bit.ly/2Eortbn

This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black... more This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.

'Conclusion,' in Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944, eds. Kirrily Freeman and John Munro (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020): 231-240..

“Remembering Jack O’Dell,” Global African Worker (November 2019): https://tinyurl.com/tb6ugdd

"Truths My Teachers Told Me," in What Moves Us: The Life and Times of the Radical Imagination, eds., Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven (Halifax: Fernwood, 2017)

"Neoliberalism and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in a North American City," Global Urban History (08 December 2016): https://tinyurl.com/y389mxxb

“Anticolonialism, Antifascism, and Imperial History,” Imperial and Global Forum (29 June 2015): https://tinyurl.com/y4blskv2

“Imperial Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement in the Early Cold War,” History Workshop Journal 79 (April 2015): 52-75.

“Class Struggle and Self-Determination at Political Affairs: An Intellectual History of Communist Anticolonialism in the United States, 1945-1960,” in Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, eds. Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015): 87-105.

‘“As Its Foundations Totter’: International Imperialism, Gendered Racial Capitalism, and the US Literary Left in the Early Cold War,” in The Material of World History, eds. Tina Chen and David Churchill (New York: Routledge, 2015): 72-88.

“US Foreign Policy, Intersectional Totality, and the Structure of Empire,” Third World Quarterly 35, no. 9 (2014): 1566-1581.

“Interwoven Colonial Histories: Indigenous Agency and Academic Historiography in North America,” Canadian Review of American Studies 44, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 402-425.

Review of Cindy Ewing, “The Colombo Powers: Crafting Diplomacy in the Third World and Launching Afro-Asia at Bandung,” Cold War History 19, no. 1 (2019): 1-19. H-Diplo (03 October 2019): https://issforum.org/reviews/PDF/AR887.pdf.

Review of Patrick William Kelly, Sovereign Emergencies: Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics. Connections (30 August 2019): https://tinyurl.com/y2lu27tq

"A Tool for Our Times: Legacies of Black Radicalism and Communism" [Review of Margaret Stevens, Red International and Black Caribbean], Black Perspectives (20 October 2018): https://tinyurl.com/y6feyct8

Review of Jason C. Parker, Hearts, Minds, Voices: US Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World. History: Reviews of New Books 46, no. 5 (2018): 139-140.

“The Cold War’s World History and Imperial Histories of the US and the World” [Review of O.A. Westad, The Cold War: A World History] Imperial and Global Forum (14 February 2018): https://tinyurl.com/yyf9jxho

Review of Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies 1983. History (27 October 2017)

Review of Laura A. Belmonte, Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War and Andrew J. Falk, Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960. American Communist History (12 October 2017).

Review of Moon-Ho Jung, Ed., The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific. Labour/Le Travail 77 (Spring 2016): 321-323.

Review of Robeson Taj Frazier, The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination. Canadian Journal of History 51, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2016): 232-234.

Review of Leslie James, George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire. Itinerario 40, no. 1 (April 2016): 149-151.

History 1255: The United States since 1865 (Winter 2017)

History 2318: The United States and the World since 1865 (Fall-Winter 2016-2017)

History 3351: Histories of Capitalism (Winter 2017)

History 4837: International History since 1945 (Fall 2016)

History 3826: US History and Film from the Maltese to the Millennium Falcon (Winter 2016)

History 3845: Indigenous and Settler Histories (Fall 2015)

History 4827: The American City since 1945 (Fall 2015)