American Africans in Ghana Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era

Name: American Africans in Ghana Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
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ISBN: 9780807858936

ISBN-10: 0807858935

ISBN-13: 9780807858936

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kevin K. Gaines

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In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammed Ali--visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these expatriates to Ghana and how their new community was shaped by the convergence of the Cold War, the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, and the decolonization of Africa. Posing a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's president, promoted a vision of African liberation, continental unity, and West Indian federation.…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Kevin K. Gaines is director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is author of the award-winning Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Watching the World from Ghana



Mapping the Routes to Ghana: Black Modernity, Subjecthood, and Demands for Full Citizenship



Richard Wright in Ghana: Black Intellectuals and the Anticolonial Critique of Western Culture



Projecting the African Personality: Nkrumah, the Expatriates, and Postindependence Ghana, 1957-1960



Pauli Murray in Ghana: The Congo Crisis and an African American Woman's Dilemma



Escape to Ghana: Julian Mayfield and the Radical "Afros"



Malcolm X in Ghana



The Coup



After Ghana: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being


Epilogue: Memory and the Transnational Dimensions of African American Citizenship


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index