Race against Empire : : Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 / / Penny M. Von Eschen.
During World War II, African American activists, journalists, and intellectuals forcefully argued that independence movements in Africa and Asia were inextricably linkep to political, economic, and civil rights struggles in the United States. Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international so...
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Von Eschen, Penny M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Race against Empire : Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 / Penny M. Von Eschen. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (288 p.) : 21 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE MAKING OF THE POLITICS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA -- CHAPTER TWO. DEMOCRACY OR EMPIRE? -- CHAPTER THREE. TO FORGE A COLONIAL INTERNATIONAL -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE DIASPORA MOMENT -- CHAPTER FIVE. DOMESTICATING ANTICOLONIALISM -- CHAPTER SIX. HEARTS AND MINES -- CHAPTER SEVEN. REMAPPING AFRICA, REWRITING RACE -- CHAPTER EIGHT. NO EXIT: FROM BANDUNG TO GHANA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star During World War II, African American activists, journalists, and intellectuals forcefully argued that independence movements in Africa and Asia were inextricably linkep to political, economic, and civil rights struggles in the United States. Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the time, Penny M. Von Eschen offers a vivid portrayal of the African diaspora in its international heyday, from the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress to early cooperation with the United Nations.Race against Empire tells the poignant story of a popular movement and its precipitate decline with the onset of the Cold War. Von Eschen documents the efforts of African-American political leaders, intellectuals, and journalists who forcefully promoted anti-colonial politics and critiqued U.S. foreign policy. The eclipse of anti-colonial politics-which Von Eschen traces through African-American responses to the early Cold War, U.S. government prosecution of black American anti-colonial activists, and State Department initiatives in Africa-marked a change in the very meaning of race and racism in America from historical and international issues to psychological and domestic ones. She concludes that the collision of anti-colonialism with Cold War liberalism illuminates conflicts central to the reshaping of America; the definition of political, economic, and civil rights; and the question of who, in America and across the globe, is to have access to these rights.Exploring the relationship between anticolonial politics, early civil rights activism, and nascent superpower rivalries, Race against Empire offers a fresh perspective both on the emergence of the United States as the dominant global power and on the profound implications of that development for American society. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) African Americans Politics and government. African Americans Race identity. African diaspora. Anti-imperialist movements United States History 20th century. Pan-Africanism History 20th century. African-American Studies. American Studies. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 print 9780801482922 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801471711 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801471711 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801471711/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE MAKING OF THE POLITICS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA -- CHAPTER TWO. DEMOCRACY OR EMPIRE? -- CHAPTER THREE. TO FORGE A COLONIAL INTERNATIONAL -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE DIASPORA MOMENT -- CHAPTER FIVE. DOMESTICATING ANTICOLONIALISM -- CHAPTER SIX. HEARTS AND MINES -- CHAPTER SEVEN. REMAPPING AFRICA, REWRITING RACE -- CHAPTER EIGHT. NO EXIT: FROM BANDUNG TO GHANA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE MAKING OF THE POLITICS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA -- CHAPTER TWO. DEMOCRACY OR EMPIRE? -- CHAPTER THREE. TO FORGE A COLONIAL INTERNATIONAL -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE DIASPORA MOMENT -- CHAPTER FIVE. DOMESTICATING ANTICOLONIALISM -- CHAPTER SIX. HEARTS AND MINES -- CHAPTER SEVEN. REMAPPING AFRICA, REWRITING RACE -- CHAPTER EIGHT. NO EXIT: FROM BANDUNG TO GHANA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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