Against the Grain

Solidarity Across Difference

What makes one group of people show up and stand up for another group’s interests? Manijeh Moradian describes how what she calls affects of solidarity spurred Iranian student leftists in the U.S. to become active in Black liberation, Palestine liberation, and other radical movements and struggles of the 1960s and ‘70s.

Manijeh Moradian, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States Duke University Press, 2022