African Americans And Africa

Author : Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300244915

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African Americans and Africa by Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden Pdf

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.

Author : James H. Meriwether
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860410

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Proudly We Can Be Africans by James H. Meriwether Pdf

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.

Author : Kevin K. Gaines
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807867822

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American Africans in Ghana by Kevin K. Gaines Pdf

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 Muhammad Ali--visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these Americans 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. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's president, posed a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony by promoting a vision of African liberation, continental unity, and West Indian federation. Although the number of African American expatriates in Ghana was small, in espousing a transnational American citizenship defined by solidarities with African peoples, these activists along with their allies in the United States waged a fundamental, if largely forgotten, struggle over the meaning and content of the cornerstone of American citizenship--the right to vote--conferred on African Americans by civil rights reform legislation.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789987930852

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Africans and African Americans by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The nature of complex relations between Africans and African Americans is the focus of this study. The author looks at the factors which are responsible for this complex nature and which collectively constitute a major obstacle to the improvement of relations between the two groups. He also looks at the prospects and challenges in the quest for solidarity between Africans and African Americans which has remained elusive despite concerted efforts by a number of individuals and a few organisations on both sides through the years to bring the two "peoples" closer. He also examines the nature of the relationship - not just of the relations - between Africans and African Americans. The nature of this relationship goes beyond a shared complexion and the author looks at the profound differences between the two groups across the spectrum which continue to complicate relations between them and even keep them apart.

Author : Faye Z. Belgrave,Kevin W. Allison
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 997 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506333427

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African American Psychology by Faye Z. Belgrave,Kevin W. Allison Pdf

African American Psychology: From Africa to America provides comprehensive coverage of the field of African American psychology. Authors Faye Z. Belgrave and Kevin W. Allison skillfully convey the integration of African and American influences on the psychology of African Americans using a consistent theme throughout the text—the idea that understanding the psychology of African Americans is closely linked to understanding what is happening in the institutional systems in the United States. The Fourth Edition reflects notable advances and important developments in the field over the last several years, and includes evidence-based practices for improving the overall well-being of African American communities

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : Intercontinental Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066885883

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Relations Between Africans and African Americans by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The author, born and brought up in Africa, looks at relations between Africans and African Americans which have sometimes been described by different observers as "stormy," "complex," "sticky," and even "hostile" as one Nigerian professor put it. This is the third edition which includes information about African immigrants in the United States. Together with foreign students from Africa, they constitute the largest number of continental Africans who interact with African Americans on daily basis.

Author : Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801461491

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Between Homeland and Motherland by Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. Pdf

In Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe’s back-to-Africa movement in the Federal Period to the Congressional Black Caucus’ struggle to reach consensus on the African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000. In contrast to the prevailing view that pan-Africanism has been the dominant ideology guiding black leaders in formulating foreign policy positions toward Africa, Tillery highlights the importance of domestic politics and factors within the African American community. Employing an innovative multimethod approach that combines archival research, statistical modeling, and interviews, Tillery argues that among African American elites—activists, intellectuals, and politicians—factors internal to the community played a large role in shaping their approach to African issues, and that shaping U.S. policy toward Africa was often secondary to winning political battles in the domestic arena. At the same time, Africa and its interests were important to America’s black elite, and Tillery’s analysis reveals that many black leaders have strong attachments to the "motherland." Spanning two centuries of African American engagement with Africa, this book shows how black leaders continuously balanced national, transnational, and community impulses, whether distancing themselves from Marcus Garvey’s back-to-Africa movement, supporting the anticolonialism movements of the 1950s, or opposing South African apartheid in the 1980s.

Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742501655

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African Roots/American Cultures by Sheila S. Walker Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Rosemary Sadlier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Black people
ISBN : 0994929269

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Black History by Rosemary Sadlier Pdf

Author : Clare Corbould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674032624

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Becoming African Americans by Clare Corbould Pdf

In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency for some decades. Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Following the great migration of black southerners to northern cities after World War I, the search for roots and for meaningful affiliations became subjects of debate and display in a growing black public sphere. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. In plays, pageants, dance, music, film, literature, and the visual arts, they aimed to give stature and solidity to the American black community through a new awareness of the African past and the international black world. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.

Author : Yekutiel Gershoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349253395

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Africans on African-Americans by Yekutiel Gershoni Pdf

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of World War 2, Africans displaced by colonial rule created an African-American myth - a myth which aggrandized the life and attainments of African Americans despite full knowledge of the discrimination to which they were subjected. The myth provided Africans in all parts of the continent with much needed succour and underpinned various religious, educational, political and social models based on the experience of African Americans whereby Africans sought to better their own lives.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Relations Between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Tensions, Indifference and Harmony by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

This is the second edition and an expanded version of the first one. The work examines relations between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans and the problems they face when they interact and how they see each other. It also looks at what unites them and what separates them. Relations between members of these groups, which are sometimes described as distinct ethnic groups, are characterised by tensions, harmony and indifference towards each other in spite of their common identity as a people of African origin. The author explains why. This edition includes new material and complements the author's other works, “Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities,” and “Africans and African Americans: Complex Relations, Prospects and Challenges.”

Author : Library of Congress,Beverly W. Brannan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCR:31210010702593

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The African-American Mosaic by Library of Congress,Beverly W. Brannan Pdf

"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--

Author : Elliott Percival Skinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020836188

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African Americans and U.S. Policy Toward Africa, 1850-1924 by Elliott Percival Skinner Pdf

Author : Marilyn Halter,Violet Showers Johnson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814789254

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African and American by Marilyn Halter,Violet Showers Johnson Pdf

'African & American' tells the story of the experience of West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. It highlights the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the evolving global ties with Africa and Europe, and the trans-local connections among the West African enclaves in the United States.