Proudly We Can Be Africans
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A01=James H. Meriwether
African independence
anticolonialism
apartheid
Author_James H. Meriwether
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civil rights movement
Cold War
Congo
Council on African Affairs
Defiance Campaign
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Ethiopia
Ghana
Haile Selassie
Kenya
Kwame Nkrumah
liberation struggles
Martin Luther King
Mau Mau
NAACP
Nelson Mandela
Patrice Lumumba
South Africa
U.S. foreign relations
W. E. B. DuBois
Walter White
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- ISBN 9780807849972
- Weight: 524g
- Dimensions: 159 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2002
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social lives of African Americans. Paying particular attention to such important figures and organizations as W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and the NAACP, he renders a remarkably nuanced portrait of African American opinion. Meriwether builds the book around seminal episodes in modern African history, including nonviolent protests against apartheid in South Africa, Ghana's drive for independence under Kwame Nkrumah, and Patrice Lumumba's murder in the Congo. Viewing these events within the context of their own changing lives, especially in regard to the U.S. civil rights struggle, African Americans have continually reconsidered their relationship to contemporary Africa and vigorously debated how best to translate their concerns into action in the international arena. Grounded in black Americans' encounters with Africa, this transnational history sits astride the leading issues of the twentieth century: race, civil rights, anticolonialism, and the intersections of domestic race relations and U.S. foreign relations.
James H. Meriwether, a former Fulbright senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Zimbabwe, is associate professor of history at California State University, Bakersfield.
