Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

Name: Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination
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ISBN: 9781580464284

ISBN-10: 1580464289

ISBN-13: 9781580464284

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tibebu Teshale

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Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and encyclopedic Black world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in the ideology of Black racial nationalism as articulated by Blyden. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans to "uplift" Africa; yet he was a defender of Africa's "lives and customs." He was the most sophisticated critic of Eurocentrism; yet he was an avid Anglophile. He was a Protestant who admired Islam's "civilizing" role in Africa. Blyden was the first Black intellectual to advocate the need for the…

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List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Publication date: 12/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.41" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Tibebu Teshale is Professor of History at Temple University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Africa: Service, Suffering, and Subjection



The Critique of Eurocentrism



Ishmael in Africa: Black Protestant Islamophilia



The African American "Civilizing Mission"



The "Mulatto" Nemesis



Appraising the Colonial Enterprise


Epilogue: Post-Blydenian Reflections


Notes


Bibliography


Index