Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa, 1877-1900
Author: Walter L. Williams
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter L. Williams
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sylvia M. Jacobs
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1982-06-30
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nemata Amelia Blyden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0300198663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an "African American" and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States' first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.
Author: Elisabeth Engel
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9783515111171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In "Encountering Empire", Elisabeth Engel traces how black American missionaries - men and women grappling with their African heritage - established connections in Africa during the heyday of European colonialism. Reconstructing the black American 'colonial encounter,' Engel analyzes the images, transatlantic relationships, and possibilities of representation African American missionaries developed for themselves while negotiating colonial regimes. Between 1900 and 1939, these missionaries paved the way for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest independent black American institution, to establish a presence in Britain's sub-Saharan colonies. Illuminating a neglected chapter of Atlantic history, Engel demonstrates that African Americans used imperial structures for their own self-determination. "Encountering Empire" thus challenges the notion that pan-Africanism was the only viable strategy for black emancipation.
Author: Yekutiel Gershoni
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1349253391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of World War 2, Africans displaced by colonial rule created an African-American myth - a myth which aggrandized the life and attainments of African Americans despite full knowledge of the discrimination to which they were subjected. The myth provided Africans in all parts of the continent with much needed succour and underpinned various religious, educational, political and social models based on the experience of African Americans whereby Africans sought to better their own lives.
Author: S. Johnson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-12-02
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1403978697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph is an original study of what is commonly termed the American "myth of Ham". It examines black and white Americans' recourse to the biblical character of Ham as a cultural strategy for explaining racial origins. Previous studies in the area have been restricted to associating the Hamitic idea with pro-slavery arguments, whereas the thesis of this project reveals a fundamental irony: black American Christians who reinforced the meanings of illegitimacy by appealing to Ham as the ancestor of the race.