Geographies of Liberation

“Lubin is a politically attuned scholar who avoids didacticism, engages specialists, and can easily draw in the novice.” — Journal of American History

“A fascinating and engaging book.” — American Historical Review

“Lubin has created an engaging, erudite, ironic, and well-historicized account of the intertwined images of peoples united in their political and cultural struggles.” — American Quarterly

“A fascinating, wide-ranging history . . . Geographies of Liberation traces the complex ways in which the histories of African Americans, Palestinians, and Jews can be seen relationally through shared experiences of exile and exclusion. An important, timely, scrupulously researched and well-written book.” — Malini Johar Schueller, author of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 and Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship

“Geographies of Liberation is a revelatory and informative work of intercultural scholarship that demonstrates how African American, Arab, and Jewish political imaginaries cannot be fully thought or understood outside the shared geopolitical context in which they developed across the twentieth century, nor apart from the interdependent, if also conflictual, narratives of race, religion, self-determination, belonging, and exclusion that were forged between them.” — Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy