Ghosts of Bandung
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See moreGhosts of Bandung makes the major new argument that the fates of the Black and Palestinian revolutions were bound together through the rise and fall of a larger Third World political project.
Drawing on English and Arabic archives, Derek Ide shows how Afro-Arab solidarities shaped and were shaped by geopolitics and grand strategy. Through biographical vignettes of forgotten figures and underexplored groups, Ghosts of Bandung interweaves the histories of movement dynamics with those of contending states in the Global Cold War.
This story binds the United States and the Middle East—Detroit and Damascus, Oakland and Algiers—while spanning the globe. From the Sino-Soviet split to the Beijing-Jakarta Axis, this global retelling of Black Power and the Palestinian Revolution engages China, Cuba, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, and more.
At the heart of this broader project is the hitherto untold story of CONEFO, Indonesian President Sukarno's attempt to construct an alternative United Nations-like organization in Jakarta. Centering on 1965 and the collapse of CONEFO, Ide links the fates of Black Power and the Palestinian Revolution to the fall of Third Worldism and the "Bandung Spirit."
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780520422414
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 October 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 9 b-w images
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 332
About the Author
Derek A. Ide is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University and a historian of the Cold War, the Global South, and anticolonialism.
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