An African American in South Africa
Title | An African American in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Johnson Bunche |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Black people |
ISBN | 9780821413944 |
Ralph Bunche, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, traveled to South Africa for three months in 1937. His notes, which have been skillfully compiled and annotated by historian Robert R. Edgar, provide unique insights on a segregated society.
The Americans Are Coming!
Title | The Americans Are Coming! PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Trent Vinson |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2012-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0821444050 |
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements. Though African Americans suffered under Jim Crow racial discrimination, oppressed Africans saw African Americans as free people who had risen from slavery to success and were role models and potential liberators. Many African Americans, regarded initially by the South African government as “honorary whites” exempt from segregation, also saw their activities in South Africa as a divinely ordained mission to establish “Africa for Africans,” liberated from European empires. The Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest black-led movement with two million members and supporters in forty-three countries at its height in the early 1920s, was the most anticipated source of liberation. Though these liberation prophecies went unfulfilled, black South Africans continued to view African Americans as inspirational models and as critical partners in the global antiapartheid struggle. The Americans Are Coming! is a rare case study that places African history and American history in a global context and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies.
African Americans and Africa
Title | African Americans and Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2019-05-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0300244916 |
An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.
Winning Our Freedoms Together
Title | Winning Our Freedoms Together PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Grant |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017-10-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1469635291 |
In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that U.S.-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism. Instead, by tracing the considerable amount of time, money, and effort the state invested into responding to black international criticism, Grant outlines the extent to which the U.S. and South African governments were forced to reshape and occasionally reconsider their racial policies in the Cold War world. This study shows how African Americans and black South Africans navigated transnationally organized state repression in ways that challenged white supremacy on both sides of the Atlantic. The political and cultural ties that they forged during the 1940s and 1950s are testament to the insistence of black activists in both countries that the struggle against apartheid and Jim Crow were intimately interconnected.
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Title | Proudly We Can Be Africans PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Meriwether |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2009-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807860417 |
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 African history, including nonviolent protests against apartheid in South Africa, the Mau Mau war in Kenya, Ghana's drive for independence under Kwame Nkrumah, and Patrice Lumumba's murder in the Congo. Viewing these events within the context of their own changing lives, especially in regard to the U.S. civil rights struggle, African Americans have continually reconsidered their relationship to contemporary Africa and vigorously debated how best to translate their concerns into action in the international arena. Grounded in black Americans' encounters with Africa, this transnational history sits astride the leading issues of the twentieth century: race, civil rights, anticolonialism, and the intersections of domestic race relations and U.S. foreign relations.
African American Genealogical Research
Title | African American Genealogical Research PDF eBook |
Author | Paul R. Begley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers
Title | From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers PDF eBook |
Author | Oluwaseun Tella |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9781431429554 |