Book contents
- The Anticolonial Transnational
- Global and International History
- The Anticolonial Transnational
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Many Anticolonial Transnationals
- Part II Solidarities and Their Discontents
- Part III Anticolonialism in a Postcolonial Age
- 10 The Unexpected Anticolonialist: Winifred Armstrong, American Empire, and African Decolonization
- 11 Beyond the NIEO: Self-Reliance as an Alternative Vision of Postcolonial Development
- 12 Guam’s Quest for Indigenous Chamorro Self-Determination in the Age of Pacific Anticolonialism
- 13 Reggae, Sound Systems, and Arrested Decolonization in Bermuda
- 14 Epilogue: The National and the Colonial in the Anticolonial Transnational
- Index
10 - The Unexpected Anticolonialist: Winifred Armstrong, American Empire, and African Decolonization
from Part III - Anticolonialism in a Postcolonial Age
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2023
- The Anticolonial Transnational
- Global and International History
- The Anticolonial Transnational
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Many Anticolonial Transnationals
- Part II Solidarities and Their Discontents
- Part III Anticolonialism in a Postcolonial Age
- 10 The Unexpected Anticolonialist: Winifred Armstrong, American Empire, and African Decolonization
- 11 Beyond the NIEO: Self-Reliance as an Alternative Vision of Postcolonial Development
- 12 Guam’s Quest for Indigenous Chamorro Self-Determination in the Age of Pacific Anticolonialism
- 13 Reggae, Sound Systems, and Arrested Decolonization in Bermuda
- 14 Epilogue: The National and the Colonial in the Anticolonial Transnational
- Index
Summary
Using long-form oral history, this chapter explores two decades in the career of an individual, the American transnational advocate Winifred Armstrong. Armstrong was an unofficial African affairs consultant for John F. Kennedy and political economist for the American Metal Climax mining company, who managed to operate inside organs of American empire as both an advocate for nationalist claimants and as a connector to spheres of US political and economic interests. By focusing on a single individual enmeshed in global networks of anticolonialism and resource extraction, this chapter deepens and complicates narratives of progressive national liberation, neo-imperialism, and the role of the corporation in decolonization.
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- The Anticolonial TransnationalImaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire, pp. 199 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023