In search of power : African Americans in the era of decolonization, 1956-1974 / / Brenda Gayle Plummer [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779340703321
• Autore: Plummer Brenda Gayle
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-139-85410-0; 1-107-23595-2; 1-139-84266-8; 1-139-84028-2; 1-139-84502-0; 1-107-25453-1; 1-139-14939-3; 1-283-83605-X; 1-139-84147-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: HIS036000
• Disciplina: 323.1196/073
• Soggetti: African Americans - Civil rights; Decolonization - Africa; African Americans - Relations with Africans - History; African diaspora - History; United States Foreign relations Africa; Africa Foreign relations United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. A great restlessness; 2. Peace or a sword?; 3. 'Freedom's struggle crosses oceans and mountains'; 4. Meeting Odinga; 5. When race doesn't matter; 6. Embracing the globe; 7. Race, space, and displacement; 8. Africa and liberation; 9. Agenda setting on two continents; Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Search of Power is a history of the era of civil rights, decolonization and Black Power. In the critical period from 1956 to 1974, the emergence of newly independent states worldwide and the struggles of the civil rights movement in the United States exposed the limits of ; racial integration and political freedom. Dissidents, leaders and elites alike were linked in a struggle for power in a world where the rules of the game had changed. Brenda Gayle Plummer traces the detailed connections between African Americans' involvement in international affairs and how they shaped American foreign policy, integrating African American history, the history of the African Diaspora and the history of United States foreign relations. These topics, usually treated separately, not only offer a unified view of the period but also reassess controversies and events that punctuated this colorful era of upheaval and change.