Back to Africa
Author : Richard West
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard West
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth C. Barnes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807876224
Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement throughout the South. The back-to-Africa movement held great new appeal to the South's most marginalized citizens, rural African Americans. Nowhere was this interest in Liberia emigration greater than in Arkansas. More emigrants to Liberia left from Arkansas than any other state in the 1880s and 1890s. In Journey of Hope, Kenneth C. Barnes explains why so many black Arkansas sharecroppers dreamed of Africa and how their dreams of Liberia differed from the reality. This rich narrative also examines the role of poor black farmers in the creation of a black nationalist identity and the importance of the symbolism of an ancestral continent. Based on letters to the ACS and interviews of descendants of the emigrants in war-torn Liberia, this study captures the life of black sharecroppers in the late 1800s and their dreams of escaping to Africa.
Author : Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 027104571X
Author : Raymond Gavins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1107103398
Intended for high school and college students, teachers, adult educational groups, and general readers, this book is of value to them primarily as a learning and reference tool. It also provides a critical perspective on the actions and legacies of ordinary and elite blacks and their non-black allies.
Author : Evan M. Mwangi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438426976
The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.
Author : Virginia Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN :
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 030023483X
A comprehensive history of the relationship between Africa and the United States Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tracking African American emancipation, the rise of African diasporas in the Americas, the Back-to-Africa movement, the founding of Sierra Leone and Liberia, the presence of American missionaries in Africa, the development of blues and jazz music, the presidency of Barack Obama, and more.
Author : Jemima Pierre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226923029
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? This title tackles the question of race in West Africa through its post-colonial manifestations. Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of 'whiteness' to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African 'heritage tourism'.
Author : Monique Maddy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0066211107
This is a striking memoir of one determined woman's attempt to reclaim her family's proud legacy in the midst of the chaos of daily life in Africa.
Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Lucent Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590188385
In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey was one of the most famous black men in the world. Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement examines the rise and fall of this charismatic leader from his days preaching from a soapbox in Harlem to his role as a spokesman for millions of black Americans who dreamed of a better life in Africa.