Race against Empire (eBook)

Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957

Penny M. Von Eschen (Autor)

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2014
288 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-7170-4 (ISBN)

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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. Tracing the relationship between transformations in anti-colonial politics and the history of the United States during its emergence as the dominant world power, she challenges bipolar Cold War paradigms. She 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 21 halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress • Africa • african american & black studies • african-american history • African diaspora • African liberation movements • african social history • american anti-colonial practices • American Pan-Africanism • anti-colonial activism • anti-colonial activists • anti-colonial foreign policy • anti-colonial history • anti-colonialism africa • anti-colonial philosophy • anti-colonial political science • anti-colonial politics • anticolonial politics in africa • anti-colonial practices • Anti-colonial theory • black American anti-colonial activists • Black civil rights • Black History • black political movements • contemporary sociology • domestic anti-colonial practices • global anti-colonial practices • Historiography • Identity • international anti-colonial practices • Mass media • modern civil rights movement • national anti-colonial practices • opponents of colonialism • oppressed peoples • overthrow colonialism • overthrow colonialism in Africa • pan-Africanism • Political Science • post-colonial Africa • post colonialism studies • Race and Ethnic Studies • race and racism in America • race studies • Racism • radical anticolonialism • Social History • Social Justice • Social Movements
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-7170-2 / 0801471702
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7170-4 / 9780801471704