Jared Holley

My Fellowship research will be a part of my wider book project on Anticolonial Solidarity. The aim of the book is to develop an account of anticolonial solidarity grounded in the global history of political thought, and to clarify anticolonial solidarity’s contribution to contemporary political theory. The guiding hypothesis of the project is that the history of anticolonial solidarity is better able to clarify the practical and global dimensions of solidarity than is contemporary political theory alone. I therefore utilize an interdisciplinary methodology to explore anti-colonial solidarity both in its historical context and vis-à-vis contemporary political theory. At IASH, I will be surveying the contested field of subaltern solidarities across late 19th- and 20th-century anticolonial movements. This involves documenting and systematically analyzing the archives of anticolonial periodicals founded by my central research subjects (or to which they contributed). These are: La  Fraternité, founded in Paris in August 1890 by Haitian diplomat Benito Sylvain; Patria, founded in 1892 in New York by José Martí as the official organ of the Cuban Revolutionary Party; and the contributions across 1969-1974 by a Red Power cadre called the Native Study Group in 3 small periodicals: The Native Alliance for Red Power (NARP) Newsletter, Native Movement, and Seize the Time.