The Third World in the Global 1960s

Decades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work has been done regarding radical activism in the United States and Western Europe, events in what is today known as the Global South – Asia, Africa, and Latin America – have yet to receive the attention they deserve. This volume inserts the Third World into the study of the 1960s by examining the local and international articulations of youth protest in various geographical, social, and cultural arenas. Rejecting the notion that the Third World existed on the periphery, it situates the events of the 1960s in a more inclusive context, building a richer, more nuanced understanding of the era that better reflects the dynamism of the period.

A shared space of imagination, communication, and action : perspectives on the history of the "third world" / Christoph Kalter -- China's great proletarian cultural revolution and the imagination of the third world / Zachary Scarlett -- Politics and periodicals in 1960s India : the Naxalite movement / Avishek Ganguly -- Liberation struggle and humanitarian aid : international solidarity movements and the "third world" in the 1960s / Konrad Kuhn -- "A more systemic fight for reform" : university reform, student movements, society, and the state in Brazil, 1957-1968 / Colin Snider -- "Speaking the language of protest" : African student rebellions at the Catholic Major Seminary in colonial Zimbabwe, 1965-1979 / Nicholas Creary -- 1968 and the context of apartheid : students, race, and politics in South Africa / Chris Saunders -- Brother Wally and de Burnin of Babylon : Walter Rodney's impact on the reawakening of black power, the birth of reggae, and resistance to global imperialism / James Bradford -- June 4th 1969 : violence, political imagination, and the student movement in the Congo / Pedro Monaville -- Revolution on the national stage : Mexico, the PRI, and the student movement in 1968 / Julia Sloan -- Students, identity and strategic alliance building : the emergence of university students as a political opposition force in Indonesia in the 1960s / Stephanie Sapiie -- Putting up a united front : MAN in the rebellious sixties in the Philippines / Erwin Fernandez

Decades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work has been done regarding radical activism in the United States and Western Europe, events in what is today known as the Global South - Asia, Africa, and Latin America - have yet to receive the requisite attention they deserve. This volume inserts the Third World into the study of the 1960s by examining the local and international articulations of youth protest in various geographical, social, and cultural arenas. Rejecting the not