The Tricontinental Legacy: A Retrospective on Global Revolution

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

In January 1966, delegates from the liberation movements of eighty-two nations came together at the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba to form an alliance against imperialism. This understudied movement, which produced films, posters, and magazines in four languages, played a pivotal role in Latin America and beyond, such as in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, the defeat of apartheid South Africa and eventually in the emergence of contemporary anti-globalization movements. Spanning geographies of Cold War radicalism from Harlem to Havana, Moscow and Cape Town, this panel considers the wide-ranging influence of Tricontinentalism and reflects on its relevance to our contemporary political context.

Sub Track

• Transnationalism and Globalization

Session Organizer

• Lanie M Millar, University of Oregon

Chair

• Anne Garland Mahler, University of Arizona

Individual Presentations

• Solidarity and Precarity: African American Activists and the Tricontinental Conference in Havana - Sarah J Seidman, Museum of the City of New York

• Revolution in Gray: Leonardo Padura’s El hombre que amaba a los perros - Lanie M Millar, University of Oregon

• The Island Where Tricontinentalism Ended: Ondjaki’s Sonhos Azuis Pelas Esquinas - Stephen Henighan, University of Guelph

• The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism: A Return to the Tricontinental - Anne Garland Mahler, University of Arizona