03196nam 2200601Ia 450 991081816480332120200520144314.00-8214-4405-0(CKB)2550000000085786(EBL)1773382(OCoLC)794698919(SSID)ssj0000595812(PQKBManifestationID)11367462(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000595812(PQKBWorkID)10556015(PQKB)10007297(MdBmJHUP)muse15914(Au-PeEL)EBL1773382(CaPaEBR)ebr10524503(MiAaPQ)EBC1773382(EXLCZ)99255000000008578620110927d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Americans are coming! dreams of African American liberation in segregationist South Africa /Robert Trent VinsonAthens, OH Ohio University Press20111 online resource (252 p.)New African historiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-1986-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the Americans are coming! -- Providential design : the alliance of American Negroes and black South Africans. American Negroes as racial models : from "honorary whites" to "black perils" -- The failed dream of British liberation and Christian regeneration. American apocalypse : prophetic Garveyism and the dream of American Negro liberation. The rise of Marcus Garvey and his gospel of Garveyism in Southern Africa -- Transnational martyrdom and the spread of Garveyism in South Africa -- "Charlatan or savior?" : Dr. Wellington's prophecies and program of deliverance -- A dream deferred : the end of the dream of American Negro liberation and the beginnings of the global antiapartheid movement.For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and "American Negroes"-a group that included African Americans and black West Indians-established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements. Though African Americans suffered under Jim Crow racial discrimination, oppressed Africans saw African Americans as free people who had risen from slavery to success and were role models and potential liberators. Many African Americans, regarded initially by the South AfricNew African histories series.Black nationalismSouth AfricaAfrican AmericansRelations with AfricansBlacksSouth AfricaAttitudesUnited StatesForeign public opinion, South AfricanBlack nationalismAfrican AmericansRelations with Africans.BlacksAttitudes.320.5460968Vinson Robert Trent1622363MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818164803321The Americans are coming3956184UNINA