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It analyzes articles from several African American publications, including Afro-American, The Chicago Defender, The Crisis, and Associated Negro Press, as well as letters to editors. Solidarity is shown to rest on racial identification, historical and religious appeals, and to be contested by minority views before being reinforced through narratives of shared appearance and Ethiopians’ attitudes. As discrimination at home parallels Ethiopia’s treatment abroad, moral ressentiment moves into international activism.","Global Histories  \nA Student Journal  \nAfrican Americans and the Construction of Solidarity with Ethiopia, 1935–1936  \nMatevž Rezman Tasič  \nDOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/GHSJ.2024.609](http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/GHSJ.2024.609)  \nSource: Global Histories, Vol. 9 , No. 2 ( December 2024), pp. 43–61.  \nISSN: 2366-780X  \nCopyright © 2024 Matevž Rezman Tasič  \nLicense URL: [https://creativecommons.org/l](https://creativecommons.org/l)icenses/by/4 .0/  \nPublisher information:  \nGlobal Histories: A Student Journal is an open-access bi-annual journal founded in 2015 by students of the M.A. program Global History at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Global Histories is published by an editorial board of Global History students in association with the Freie Universität Berlin.  \nFreie Universität Berlin  \nGlobal Histories: A Student Journal Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut  \nKoserstraße 20 14195 Berlin  \nContact information:  \nFor more information, please consult our website [www.globalhistories.com](www.globalhistories.com) or contact the editor at: [admin@globalhistories.com](admin@globalhistories.com).  \nAfrican Americans and the Construction of Solidarity with Ethiopia, 1935-1936  \nABSTRACT  \nWhile practical aspects of African American solidarity with Ethiopia in the years 1935-1936 received considerable scholarly attention, little has been written on the process of the construction of solidarity with Ethiopia, or how African Americans came to think of Ethiopia as deserving of their solidarity. To answer this question, this study analyses several African American publications’ (Afro-American, The Chicago Defender, The Crisis, and Associated Negro Press) articles about the Italian aggression against Ethiopia. To address why African Americans mobilized in thousands to support Ethiopia and expressed solidarity with the African empire, the analysis includes the letters to the editors of The Chicago Defender and Afro-American in the years 1935 and 1936. The process of the construction of solidarity with Ethiopia was based on African American racial identification with Ethiopians, which was strengthened by the appeal of Ethiopia as a historical model of Black nationhood and the religious identification of African American Christians with Ethiopian Christianity. This same process was challenged by a minority of African Americans, who disputed Ethiopians’ Blackness and claimed Ethiopians looked down on other people of African descent. These challenges were successfully countered by emphasizing similarities in the physical appearance of African Americans and Ethiopians, and by reports on Ethiopians’ positive attitude towards African Americans. As African Americans increasingly saw the hypocritical treatment of Ethiopia as analogous to the racist treatment they experienced at home, the moral feeling of ressentiment against racial discrimination spilled into the international arena and strengthened the construction of solidarity with Ethiopia.  \nBY  \nMatevž Rezman Tasič  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR  \nMatevž Rezman Tasič completed his undergraduate degree in History and Politics at the University of Edinburgh and is currently pursuing an MLitt degree in Modern History at University of St Andrews. His main interests lie in twentieth-century international activist networks and the Non-Aligned Movement.  \n43 | Global Histories: A Student journal | IX – 2  \nMatevž Rezman Tasič | African Americans  \nIn response to the Italian aggression against Ethiopia in the aftermath of the Wal Wal incident in November 1934, thousands across the globe mobilized in support of the African nation-state in 1935 and 1936.1 In the United States, the US African diaspora—African Americans—was at the forefront of political mobilization in support of Ethiopia. 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