United States and Africa relations, 1400s to the present /

United States and Africa relations, 1400s to the present /

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This multilayered study of the history of relations between Africa and the Americas focuses on the United States from the colonial era to the present. The book's intent is to provide those interested in Africana studies, African American studies, African studies, Atlantic history, world history...

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Main Authors: Falola, Toyin (Author), Njoku, Raphael Chijioke (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > Africa.
Africa > Foreign relations > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I THE AGE OF SLAVOCRATS: LABOR, CULTURE, AND POWER RELATIONS.
  • African Labor and the British American Colony, 1619-1865
  • The African Diaspora: Memory, Survival, and Longing for Africa
  • From Land of Freedom to Crown Colony of Sierra Leone
  • President James Monroe and the Colonization Society: From Monrovia to Liberia
  • PART II THE AGE OF IDEAS: PRAGMATISM, SELF-PRESERVATION, AND AFRICAN REGENERATIONS.
  • American Missionaries in Africa, 1780-1920s
  • The Back-to-Africa Movement/Black Zionism, 1916-1940
  • The Pan-Africanist Idea
  • Cultural Exchanges and Trans-Atlantic Bonds: African Music and the Evolution of Blues and Jazz
  • PART III AFRICAN COLONIAL FREEDOM AND THE MODERN EXPERIENCE.
  • The Civil Rights Movement Meets Decolonization
  • The Cold War: U.S. African Foreign Policy Reset
  • African-Born Immigrants in the United States
  • U.S. Pressures: Human Rights and Democratization Movements in Africa, 1989-2016
  • Africa and the New Global Age: China's Giant Strides
  • The Obama Presidency and Africa: Opportunities and Disappointments
  • Conclusion: Reflections.

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