Between Homeland and Motherland : : Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America /

Between Homeland and Motherland : : Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America / / Alvin B. Tillery.

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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's struggle to reach...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Tillery, Alvin B.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Cornell paperbacks
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 1 table, 8 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. "Not One Was Willing To Go!": The Paradoxes of "Liberia's Offerings"
  • 2. "His Failure Will Be Theirs": Why the Black Elite Resisted Garveyism and Embraced Ethiopia
  • 3. Protecting "Fertile Fields": The NAACP and Africa during the Cold War
  • 4. "The Time for Freedom Has Come": Black Leadership in the Age of Decolonization
  • 5. "We Are a Power Bloc": The Congressional Black Caucus and Africa
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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