Proudly We Can Be Africans Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961

Name: Proudly We Can Be Africans Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
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ISBN: 9780807849972

ISBN-10: 0807849979

ISBN-13: 9780807849972

Edition: 2002

Authors: James H. Meriwether

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The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social lives of African Americans. Paying particular attention to such important figures and organizations as W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and the NAACP, Meriwether incisively utilizes the black press, personal correspondence, and oral histories to render a remarkably nuanced and diverse portrait of African American opinion. Meriwether builds the book around seminal episodes in modern…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



Introduction


Prologue



Ethiopia: The Italo-Ethiopian War and Reconceptualizing Contemporary Africa, 1935-1936



In World War and Cold War: Configuring Anticolonialism and Internationalism, 1941-1950



South Africa: Apartheid and Nonviolent Resistance, 1948-1953



Kenya: The Mau Mau and Revolutionary Violence, 1952-1956



Ghana: African Independence, 1957-1958



The Year of Africa: Lows, Highs, and Corners, 1960



Congo: Independence, Black Nationalism, Leftism, and Splintering, 1960-1961


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index