NCID-2672
Derek Ide
IHP / ARC-NCID Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 History History (University of Houston)
About
As a historian, Derek Ide's primary research is focused on anticolonial and internationalist movements challenging imperialism in the 20th century. His dissertation analyzed the internationalist commitments that bound Black radicals and Palestinian revolutionaries together in their quest for liberation. It further explores how those commitments were encouraged, shaped, and sometimes even limited by various centers of anticolonial activity during the Cold War.
Before joining UM as an IHP / ARC-NCID Postdoctoral Fellow, Derek grew up in a working class family from Toledo, Ohio. His work has been published in the Lebanese journal Al-Adab, the Institut du monde arabe's annual series Araborama, and in the International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict, among other places. Derek has taught at the University of Toledo, the University of Houston, and was a visiting instructor of History at Miami University (Regionals).
Current Work
From 1967 to 1982, prominent Black radicals and their organizations envisioned the Middle East as a site of resistance against a global imperialist project headed by the United States. As the region’s most persistent and influential struggle, the Palestinian Revolution became a centerpiece in Black internationalist discourse. Exploring this intellectual and activist impulse, my research bridges the chasm between U.S. and modern Arab histories by analyzing bonds of solidarity at the height of the anticolonial era. Both Black militants and Palestinian revolutionaries benefited from and contributed to the building of a Third World infrastructure – an infrastructure intended to challenge imperialism and strengthen anticolonial movements. As such, my project is transnational in scope, with stopping points as disparate as Algiers, Bandung, Beijing, Detroit, Havana, and Panmunjom.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Black Internationalism, Palestinian Revolution, Middle East, Anticolonialism, imperialism