Africans And African Americans

Author : Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Kevin K. Gaines
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : James H. Meriwether
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780980258745

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Relations Between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans also known as West Indians, and how they relate to each other are the focus of this study. Tensions which exist between a significant number of Africans and Afro-Caribbeans in Britain - between Jamaicans and Nigerians and others - is one of the subjects addressed in the book. The author also looks at how members of these groups cooperate in a number of areas but concedes that even in the absence of overt - or covert - hostility between them there is indifference towards each other in many cases. There are many other subjects covered in the book about these communities including the impact of African independence on the civil rights movement in the United States. The author has focused on Britain and the United States. Both countries have large numbers of African and Afro-Caribbean (West Indian) immigrants.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : Intercontinental Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Yekutiel Gershoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Nemata Amelia Blyden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300198669

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African Americans and Africa by Nemata Amelia 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 : Walter L. Williams
Publisher : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015012964899

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Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa, 1877-1900 by Walter L. Williams Pdf

Author : Faye Z. Belgrave,Kevin W. Allison
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 997 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Marilyn Halter,Violet Showers Johnson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.

Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0674076265

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Blacks in Antiquity by Frank M. Snowden Pdf

Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.

Author : Bruce Sinclair
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0262195046

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Technology and the African-American Experience by Bruce Sinclair Pdf

The intersection of race and technology: blackcreativity and the economic and social functions of the myth ofdisengenuity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781448672141

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Africans and African Americans: Complex Relations - Prospects and Challenges by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clare Corbould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Jack D. Forbes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 025206321X

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Africans and Native Americans by Jack D. Forbes Pdf

Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo--terms that no longer carry their original meanings. Forbes also presents strong evidence that Native American and African contacts began in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.