Proudly We Can Be Africans by James H Meriwether
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, he renders a remarkably nuanced portrait of African American opinion. Meriwether builds the book around seminal episodes in modern African history, including nonviolent protests against apartheid in South Africa, 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.-
Torchbearers of Democracy
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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
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May We Forever Stand
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Examining Tuskegee
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The Claims of Kinfolk
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Upbuilding Black Durham
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Root and Branch
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Left of the Color Line
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Unceasing Militant
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
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Joining Places
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Game of Privilege
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Blacks Against Brown
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The Trinity
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The Promise of Patriarchy
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North Carolina Slave Narratives
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A Little Taste of Freedom
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Take Freedom
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Requiem for Reconstruction
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Making Gullah
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David Ruggles
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A Faithful Account of the Race
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Brother Outsider, Brother Insider
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Something to Do with Power
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Hubert Harrison
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Right to Ride
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From the Bullet to the Ballot
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Battling the Plantation Mentality
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The First Reconstruction
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Not Straight, not White
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Arise Africa, Roar China
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Visualizing Equality
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Congo Love Song
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Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
"Deeply researched and finely written" - Thomas Borstelmann, Cornell University
James H. Meriwether, a former Fulbright senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Zimbabwe, is associate professor of history at California State University, Bakersfield.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780807849972 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807849979 |
| Title | Proudly We Can Be Africans |
| Author | James H Meriwether |
| Series | The John Hope Franklin Series In African American History And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2002-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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