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Book Synopsis A New African Elite by : Deborah Pellow
Download or read book A New African Elite written by Deborah Pellow and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. After university and post-graduate education, they relocate to Accra, the capital, hundreds of miles south. They crossed social and physical space and have become cosmopolitan while holding on to tradition and attachment to their home town. This bridge generation are patrons to those living up north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that they use the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.
Book Synopsis The Original Black Elite by : Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Download or read book The Original Black Elite written by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time, academic, entrepreneur, and political activist and black history pioneer Daniel Murray. In the wake of the Civil War, Daniel Murray, born free and educated in Baltimore, was in the vanguard of Washington, D.C.’s black upper class. Appointed Assistant Librarian at the Library of Congress—at a time when government appointments were the most prestigious positions available for blacks—Murray became wealthy through his business as a construction contractor and married a college-educated socialite. The Murrays’ social circles included some of the first African-American U.S. Senators and Congressmen, and their children went to the best colleges—Harvard and Cornell. Though Murray and other black elite of his time were primed to assimilate into the cultural fabric as Americans first and people of color second, their prospects were crushed by Jim Crow segregation and the capitulation to white supremacist groups by the government, which turned a blind eye to their unlawful—often murderous—acts. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor traces the rise, fall, and disillusionment of upper-class African Americans, revealing that they were a representation not of hypothetical achievement but what could be realized by African Americans through education and equal opportunities. As she makes clear, these well-educated and wealthy elite were living proof that African Americans did not lack ability to fully participate in the social contract as white supremacists claimed, making their subsequent fall when Reconstruction was prematurely abandoned all the more tragic. Illuminating and powerful, her magnificent work brings to life a dark chapter of American history that too many Americans have yet to recognize.
Book Synopsis Political Attitudes of the New African Elite by : Donn Maulsby Kurtz
Download or read book Political Attitudes of the New African Elite written by Donn Maulsby Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New African Diaspora by : Isidore Okpewho
Download or read book The New African Diaspora written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora.
Book Synopsis Jews in the Protestant Establishment by : Richard L. Zweigenhaft
Download or read book Jews in the Protestant Establishment written by Richard L. Zweigenhaft and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Im/mobilities in Africa by : Joël Noret
Download or read book Social Im/mobilities in Africa written by Joël Noret and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.
Book Synopsis The New Elites of Tropical Africa by : P. C. Lloyd
Download or read book The New Elites of Tropical Africa written by P. C. Lloyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966, this book brings together papers dealing with the emergence and development of elites in sub-Saharan Africa among social categories ranging from farmers and women market traders through foremen and merchants to administrators and managers in government and industry. The authors analyse distinctive social characteristics and attitudes and the development of class consciousness.
Download or read book Black Gotham written by Carla L. Peterson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period.
Download or read book Opting Out written by Maya A. Beasley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and finance? A sophisticated study of racial disparity, Opting Out examines why some talented black undergraduates pursue lower-paying, lower-status careers despite being amply qualified for more prosperous ones. To explore these issues, Maya A. Beasley conducted in-depth interviews with black and white juniors at two of the nation’s most elite universities, one public and one private. Beasley identifies a set of complex factors behind these students’ career aspirations, including the anticipation of discrimination in particular fields; the racial composition of classes, student groups, and teaching staff; student values; and the availability of opportunities to network. Ironically, Beasley also discovers, campus policies designed to enhance the academic and career potential of black students often reduce the diversity of their choices. Shedding new light on the root causes of racial inequality, Opting Out will be essential reading for parents, educators, students, scholars, and policymakers.
Book Synopsis The West and the Rest of Us by : Chinweizu
Download or read book The West and the Rest of Us written by Chinweizu and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What really happened to the rest of the world under Western expansion? How is the backlash to that expansion contributing to the global crisis of today? The West and the rest of us documents that expansion and investigates its predatory nature. It then focuses, as a case study, upon the Euro-African connection of the past five-hundred-years, showing also the role of African complicity in the subjugation of Africa by the West. In doing so Chinweizu examines areas of African history that have been deliberately veiled. Black Slavers: how they cooperated in preparing Africa for conquest. Unequal exchange: the mechanism used to impoverish Africa. The myths of racism: their usefulness as ploys to keep Africa oppressed. African 'independence': a fake product of the grand fraud of decolonization. The poorfare state: Africa in the grip of Western 'aid' and maldevelopment. The African elite: the spiritual descendants and operational equivalents of the Black Slavers. This new edition updates the account by examining the faltering of Western power under the impacts of Vietnam and OPEC. It looks into the subsequent Third World campaign for a New International Economic Order, and why it failed. It shows how, inhibited by the privileges they enjoyed as political supervisors of neo-colonial rentier states, the elites of most Third World states preferred Cargo Cult Maldevelopment to development, and declined to force a general economic decolonization even after OPEC had shown them how to proceed. The ending of neo-colonialism was, thus, postponed, not simply by the intransigence of the West, but with the complicity of Third World elites themselves"--Back cover of the paperback edition.
Book Synopsis Leading the Race by : Jacqueline M. Moore
Download or read book Leading the Race written by Jacqueline M. Moore and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moore reevaluates the role of this black elite by examining how their self-interest interacted with the needs of the black community in Washington, D.C., the center of black society at the turn of the century."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Africa’s Elite Football by : Chuka Onwumechili
Download or read book Africa’s Elite Football written by Chuka Onwumechili and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world. Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international migration. In exploring the intranational, the book is written in two parts. The first is a general focus on the continent, and the second is an examination of country cases. The general focus of the book is on the nature of elite tier leagues, the relationship between politics and football, the media, youth academies, intranational migration and fans. Notably, chapters on topics such as intranational migration present groundbreaking scholarship in this area. Currently, football discourses on migration focus on international migration of footballers, yet the majority of migration in African football is intranational. Thus, by addressing the intranational, this book brings attention to an area that is underrepresented in the current academic discourse. The second part of the book, which focuses on country cases, covers Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The topics explored in those cases include religiosity, health, women’s football, media and management. The coverage of health-related issues is particularly important given that several books on African football rarely broach such a topic. With its unique approach to African football, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of sports history, African studies, politics in sports and African sports.
Book Synopsis Transforming the Elite by : Michelle A. Purdy
Download or read book Transforming the Elite written by Michelle A. Purdy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, numerous white students exited the public system altogether, with parents choosing homeschooling or private segregationist academies. But some historically white elite private schools opted to desegregate. The black students that attended these schools courageously navigated institutional and interpersonal racism but ultimately emerged as upwardly mobile leaders. Transforming the Elite tells this story. Focusing on the experiences of the first black students to desegregate Atlanta's well-known The Westminster Schools and national efforts to diversify private schools, Michelle A. Purdy combines social history with policy analysis in a dynamic narrative that expertly re-creates this overlooked history. Through gripping oral histories and rich archival research, this book showcases educational changes for black southerners during the civil rights movement including the political tensions confronted, struggles faced, and school cultures transformed during private school desegregation. This history foreshadows contemporary complexities at the heart of the black community's mixed feelings about charter schools, school choice, and education reform.
Book Synopsis A Social History of the New African Elite in Lagos Colony, 1880-1913 by : Kristin Mann
Download or read book A Social History of the New African Elite in Lagos Colony, 1880-1913 written by Kristin Mann and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neo-Africanism written by Papa Yalae and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Africanism: The New Ideology for a New Africa is a vision of an African renaissance grounded in traditional African philosophies of social harmony and mutual interdependence. The author calls for Africans to deconstruct the multiplicity of divisive and antagonistic political ideologies that have dominated Africa since the demise of colonialism and replace them with one harmonious and co-operative political ideology—Neo-Africanism—a unified ideology grounded in the social harmony and interdependence that characterized traditional African life. He shows how this ideology can be applied successfully to the politics, economics, education, and health care of Africa and how it can help create a New Africa—a reawakened, peaceful, and prosperous Africa highly regarded by all the nations of the world. The book is aimed at students of African studies, political science, philosophy, macroeconomics, and international relations, as well as the general population of Africans and the African political elite. Both undergraduate and graduate students will find the book helpful because of the comprehensive analysis and solutions to problems in the important areas of a nation. Unlike existing books, Neo-Africanism provides philosophical guidance that will empower the people of Africa to solve Africa’s problems and to acquire the capability to create sustainable peace and prosperity.
Book Synopsis Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913 by : Jelmer Vos
Download or read book Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913 written by Jelmer Vos and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2015 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the onset of colonialism in Central Africa from economic, religious, and political perspectives, examining the ultimately tragic participation of African elites in colonial rule.
Book Synopsis Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of 'Development' in Africa by : Mark Langan
Download or read book Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of 'Development' in Africa written by Mark Langan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of ‘development’ strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalisation. Eschewing polemics and critically engaging the work of Ghana’s first President – Kwame Nkrumah – the book offers a rigorous assessment of the concept of neo-colonialism. It then demonstrates how neo-colonialism remains an impediment to genuine empirical sovereignty and poverty reduction in Africa today. It does this through examination of corporate interventions; Western aid-giving; the emergence of ‘new’ donors such as China; EU-Africa trade regimes; the securitisation of development; and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout the chapters, it becomes clear that the current challenges of African development cannot be solely pinned on so-called neo-patrimonial elites. Instead it becomes imperative to fully acknowledge, and interrogate, corporate and donor interventions which lock many poorer countries into neo-colonial patterns of trade and production. The book provides an original contribution to studies of African political economy, demonstrating the on-going relevance of the concept of neo-colonialism, and reclaiming it for scholarly analysis in a global era.
