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)

Infos

Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, Penny M. Von Eschen offers a vivid portrayal of the African diaspora in its international heyday, from the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress to the UN.

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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.

Autor

Penny M. Von Eschen is Professor of History and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia.

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