19th-century Black Emigration
19th-century Black Internationalism
19th-century Black Literature
19th-century Black Nationalism
19th-century Black Newspapers in Canada
19th-century Black Newspapers in the US
19th-Century Black Transnationalism
19th-century Colonization Movement
19th-century Hemispheric Studies
19th-century Slave Narratives
19th-century US Expansionism
19th-century US Imperialism
19th-cenutry Black Intellectual History
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African Diaspora
African Diaspora in 19th-century US
Alexander Crummell
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Colored Conventions Movement
Daniel H. Peterson
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Henry Highland Garnet
James M. Whitfield
James McCune Smith
Manifest Destiny
Martin R. Delany
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Monroe Doctrine
Race in 19th-century Liberia
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- ISBN 9781469676630
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intellectuals like Daniel Peterson, James McCune Smith, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Bibb, and Martin Delany engaged this cultural mythology to theorize and practice Black internationalism. He uncovers how their strategies for challenging Manifest Destiny's white nationalist ideology and expansionist political agenda constituted a form of disidentification—a deconstructing and reassembling of this discourse that marshals Black experiences as racialized subjects to imagine novel geopolitical mythologies and projects to compete with Manifest Destiny.
Employing Black internationalist, hemispheric, and diasporic frameworks to examine the emigrationist and solidarity projects that African Americans proposed as alternatives to Manifest Destiny, Boutelle attends to sites integral to US aspirations of hemispheric dominion: Liberia, Nicaragua, Canada, and Cuba. In doing so, Boutelle offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.
Employing Black internationalist, hemispheric, and diasporic frameworks to examine the emigrationist and solidarity projects that African Americans proposed as alternatives to Manifest Destiny, Boutelle attends to sites integral to US aspirations of hemispheric dominion: Liberia, Nicaragua, Canada, and Cuba. In doing so, Boutelle offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.
R. J. Boutelle is assistant professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.
