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Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization

Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements

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  1. Asafa Jalata
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-22

  3. The Development of African American Nationalism

    • Asafa Jalata
    Pages 23-54

  4. The Oromo National Movement

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    Pages 55-88

  5. The Impact of U. S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle

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    Pages 89-106

  6. Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements

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    Pages 107-132

  7. Beyond Nationalism: The Challenges of a Genuine Multicultural Democracy

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    Pages 133-152

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 153-216
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The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Since the same global system that created racialized and exploitative structures in African American and Oromo societies also facilitated the struggles of these two peoples, this book demonstrates the dynamic interplay between social structures and human agencies in the system. African Americans in the United States of America and Oromos in the Ethiopian Empire developed their respective liberation movements in opposition to racial/ethnonational oppression, cultural and colonial domination, exploitation, and underdevelopment. By going beyond its focal point, the book also explores the structural limit of nationalism, and the potential of revolutionary nationalism in promoting a genuine multicultural democracy.

About the author

ASAFA JALATA Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Interim Chair of the Africana Studies Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. His expertise focuses on the area of global studies, development and international inequality, social movements, nationalism, terrorism studies, indigenous studies, and race and ethnicity. His research currently concentrates on the human rights of the indigenous peoples of the world. Professor Jalata is the author of Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty and Multinational Democracy (2010). He has published and edited eight books and authored sixty refereed articles in regional and international journals and book chapters.

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