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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788517603321

Autore

Putnam Aric <1972->

Titolo

The insistent call : rhetorical moments in black anticolonialism, 1929-1937 / / Aric Putnam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-61376-221-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 156 p. )

Disciplina

305.896/0730904

Soggetti

African Americans - Race identity - History - 20th century

African Americans - Attitudes - History - 20th century

African diaspora

Anti-imperialist movements - United States - History - 20th century

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States

American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Labor movement - Liberia - History - 20th century

Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 - Social aspects

Haiti History American occupation, 1915-1934 Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : rhetoric and diaspora -- The politics and practices of colonialism -- Black ethos and the rhetoric of pan-Africa -- "Unhappy Haiti" : U.S. imperialism, racial violence, and the politics of diaspora -- "Modern" slaves : the Liberian labor crisis and the politics of race and class -- Ethiopia is now : J.A. Rogers and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia -- Anticolonial rhetoric and black civil rights history.