American Africans in Ghana

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807867829
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis American Africans in Ghana by : Kevin K. Gaines

Download or read book American Africans in Ghana written by Kevin K. Gaines and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali--visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these Americans to Ghana and how their new community was shaped by the convergence of the Cold War, the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, and the decolonization of Africa. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's president, posed a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony by promoting a vision of African liberation, continental unity, and West Indian federation. Although the number of African American expatriates in Ghana was small, in espousing a transnational American citizenship defined by solidarities with African peoples, these activists along with their allies in the United States waged a fundamental, if largely forgotten, struggle over the meaning and content of the cornerstone of American citizenship--the right to vote--conferred on African Americans by civil rights reform legislation.

American Africans in Ghana

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807858936
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book American Africans in Ghana written by Kevin Kelly Gaines and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era

African American Repatriation to Ghana, the Nkrumah Years

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
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Proudly We Can Be Africans

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860417
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Proudly We Can Be Africans by : James H. Meriwether

Download or read book Proudly We Can Be Africans written by James H. Meriwether and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Meriwether incisively utilizes the black press, personal correspondence, and oral histories to render a remarkably nuanced and diverse portrait of African American opinion. Meriwether builds the book around seminal episodes in modern African history, including nonviolent protests against apartheid in South Africa, the Mau Mau war in Kenya, 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.

Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438474717
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators by : Steven J. L. Taylor

Download or read book Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators written by Steven J. L. Taylor and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present. After repeated coups and periods of military rule, Ghana is now one of Africa’s longest enduring democratic republics. Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators compares the political proclivities of two generations of African Americans who moved to Ghana. Steven J. L. Taylor blends archival and ethnographic research, including interviews, to provide a unique perspective on these immigrants who chose to leave an economically developed country and settle in an impoverished developing country. The first generation consisted of voluntary exiles from the US who arrived from 1957 to 1966, during the regime of President Kwame Nkrumah, and embraced both Nkrumah and his left-leaning political party. In contrast to the first generation, many in the second generation left the US to establish commercial enterprises in Ghana. Although they identified with the Democratic Party while living in the US, and were politically active, they avoided political activity in Ghana and many identified with the Ghanaian party that is modeled after the Republican Party in the US. Taylor dispels some of the incorrect assumptions about African politics and provides readers with an insightful look at how developing nations can embark upon a path toward democratization. “This book is an exciting addition to existing scholarship about African American expatriates in Ghana.” — April Copes, Anne Arundel Community College

Middle Passages

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440649413
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Middle Passages by : James T. Campbell

Download or read book Middle Passages written by James T. Campbell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans' ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States.

Winning Our Freedoms Together

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469635291
Total Pages : 325 pages
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Book Synopsis Winning Our Freedoms Together by : Nicholas Grant

Download or read book Winning Our Freedoms Together written by Nicholas Grant and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that U.S.-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism. Instead, by tracing the considerable amount of time, money, and effort the state invested into responding to black international criticism, Grant outlines the extent to which the U.S. and South African governments were forced to reshape and occasionally reconsider their racial policies in the Cold War world. This study shows how African Americans and black South Africans navigated transnationally organized state repression in ways that challenged white supremacy on both sides of the Atlantic. The political and cultural ties that they forged during the 1940s and 1950s are testament to the insistence of black activists in both countries that the struggle against apartheid and Jim Crow were intimately interconnected.

Ghana's Foreign Policy, 1957-1966

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400876303
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Ghana's Foreign Policy, 1957-1966 by : Willard Scott Thompson

Download or read book Ghana's Foreign Policy, 1957-1966 written by Willard Scott Thompson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic and thorough analysis of a small, determined and comparatively wealthy "new" state's attempts to enlarge its influence and augment its power. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Predicament of Blackness

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923029
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis The Predicament of Blackness by : Jemima Pierre

Download or read book The Predicament of Blackness written by Jemima Pierre and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? This title tackles the question of race in West Africa through its post-colonial manifestations. Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of 'whiteness' to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African 'heritage tourism'.

The People of Ghana

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Publisher : New Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 9987160506
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (871 download)

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Book Synopsis The People of Ghana by : Godfrey Mwakikagile

Download or read book The People of Ghana written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a general survey of Ghana and its people. Subjects covered include the country's regions and their people; Ghana's identity as a nation and how it faced challenges to national unity during the struggle for independence; the nature of the post-colonial state; the asymmetrical relationship between the north and the south rooted in the colonial era, a structural imbalance which continues to have a negative impact on the wellbeing of northerners and which could perpetuate inequalities between the two parts of the country; Ghana's place in the Pan-African world because of the leadership provided by the country's first prime minister – later president – Kwame Nkrumah; and its success in forging unity on the anvil of diversity. Among the people the author has covered include an African American community whose members were given some land in the Volta Region in the eastern part of the country for permanent settlement of the descendants of African slaves who want to return to the motherland. He describes it as a distinct ethnic group with the same attributes indigenous groups have and which they use to identify themselves as ethnic entities. The community has acquired an identity of its own and qualifies as an ethnic group because its members have a common history, language and culture as diasporans who lost their African identity under white domination in the United States and were forced to adopt a Euro-American culture and the English language. The author was closely associated with the founders of the African American community in Ghana, known as Fihankra, when he was a student in the United States and has written about them in some of his works including his autobiography, “My Life as an African.” Members of the general public and students may find this work to be useful if they want to learn some facts about Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence.

The African Meets the Black American

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467808679
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The African Meets the Black American written by Kwame A. Insaidoo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African has been separated from his Black American brothers and sisters since the dawn of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Millions of Africans were forcibly ejected from their native soil, separated from their loved ones-their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and torn from the lives they once knew, and transplanted into a new world. Essentially, the black American has become a new person in a new world with a unique experience. After hundreds of years in the new world,coupled with their unique experience; how do they view, or see, or relate or perceive or better yet interact with their African kith and kin they left on the African continent, who are now 'voluntarily' joining them in America in exodus proportions fleeing the life of grinding poverty, deprivation, hunger, dictatorships, helplessness, and all kinds of diseases? The authors spent more than twenty five years trying to find out answers to these questions.

African and American

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814789250
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis African and American by : Marilyn Halter

Download or read book African and American written by Marilyn Halter and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'African & American' tells the story of the experience of West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. It highlights the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the evolving global ties with Africa and Europe, and the trans-local connections among the West African enclaves in the United States.

Congo Love Song

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632721
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis Congo Love Song by : Ira Dworkin

Download or read book Congo Love Song written by Ira Dworkin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.

Wrapped in Pride

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Publisher : Fowler Museum at UCLA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Wrapped in Pride by : Doran H. Ross

Download or read book Wrapped in Pride written by Doran H. Ross and published by Fowler Museum at UCLA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kente is not only the best known of all African textiles, it is also one of the most admired of all fabrics worldwide. Originating among the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, this brilliantly colored and intricately patterned strip-woven cloth was traditionally associated with royalty. Over time, however, it has come to be worn and used in many different contexts. In Wrapped in Pride, seven distinguished scholars present an exhaustive examination of the history of kente from its earliest use in Ghana to its present-day impact in the African Diaspora. Doran H. Ross is the former director of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Now Is Your Time!

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061985619
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Book Synopsis Now Is Your Time! by : Walter Dean Myers

Download or read book Now Is Your Time! written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Coretta Scott King Award winner that is more timely than ever—excellent narrative nonfiction that's "history at its best."* Like Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, Now Is Your Time! explores American history through the stories of the people whose experiences have shaped and continue to shape the America in which we live. History has made me an African American. It is an Africa that I have come from, and an America that I have helped to create. Since they were first brought as captives to Virginia, the people who would become African Americans have struggled for freedom. Thousands fought for the rights of all Americans during the Revolutionary War, and for their own rights during the Civil War. On the battlefield, through education, and through their creative genius, they have worked toward one goal: that the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be denied no one. Fired by the legacy of these men and women, the struggle continues today. "Portrays the quests of individual Africans against the background of broader historical movements. Instead of a comprehensive, strict chronology, Myers offers, through freed slave Ibrahima, investigative reporter Ida Wells, artist Meta Warrick Fuller, inventor George Latimore, artist Dred Scott, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, and others, history at its best—along with deeper understanding of past and contemporary events. Readers will grasp reasons behind incidents ranging from bewildering Supreme Court decisions to the historical need for the black extended family. Intriguing and rousing." (Publishers Weekly starred review*). Walter Dean Myers was a New York Times bestselling author, Printz Award winner, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, two-time Newbery Honor recipient, and the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Maria Russo, writing in the New York Times, called Myers "one of the greats and a champion of diversity in children’s books well before the cause got mainstream attention."

African-American History

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ISBN 13 : 9780872291980
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (919 download)

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Book Synopsis African-American History by : Kevin Kelly Gaines

Download or read book African-American History written by Kevin Kelly Gaines and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Gaines presents an incisive overview of recent developments in the field of African American history, focusing on significant contributions such as slavery and the slave trade, segregation in both the South and North, and the longcivil rights movement.

The Black Expatriates

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Expatriates written by Ernest Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: