LEADER 04299nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910814712403321 005 20230725050800.0 010 $a0-8014-6149-9 010 $a0-8014-6101-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461019 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040576 035 $a(OCoLC)728082249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468085 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534424 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534424 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10511229 035 $a(PQKB)10779030 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495659 035 $a(OCoLC)966926220 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51817 035 $a(DE-B1597)478632 035 $a(OCoLC)979723452 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138206 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468085 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL767995 035 $a(OCoLC)865509060 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138206 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040576 100 $a20100923d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetween homeland and motherland $eAfrica, U.S. foreign policy, and Black leadership in America /$fAlvin B. Tillery, Jr 210 $aIthaca [N.Y.] $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 225 0 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7734-4 311 $a0-8014-4897-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNot one was willing to go! : the paradox of Liberia's offerings -- His failure will be theirs : why the Black elite resisted Garveyism and embraced Ethiopia -- Protecting "fertile fields" : the NAACP and Africa during the Cold War -- The time for freedom has come : Black leadership in the age of decolonization -- We are a power bloc : the Congressional Black Caucus and Africa. 330 $aIn Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe's back-to-Africa movement in the Federal Period to the Congressional Black Caucus's struggle to reach consensus on the African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000. In contrast to the prevailing view that pan-Africanism has been the dominant ideology guiding black leaders in formulating foreign policy positions toward Africa, Tillery highlights the importance of domestic politics and factors within the African American community. Employing an innovative multimethod approach that combines archival research, statistical modeling, and interviews, Tillery argues that among African American elites-activists, intellectuals, and politicians-factors internal to the community played a large role in shaping their approach to African issues, and that shaping U.S. policy toward Africa was often secondary to winning political battles in the domestic arena. At the same time, Africa and its interests were important to America's black elite, and Tillery's analysis reveals that many black leaders have strong attachments to the "motherland. "Spanning two centuries of African American engagement with Africa, this book shows how black leaders continuously balanced national, transnational, and community impulses, whether distancing themselves from Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa movement, supporting the anticolonialism movements of the 1950's, or opposing South African apartheid in the 1980's. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Africans$xHistory 606 $aAfrican American leadership$xHistory 606 $aAfrican diaspora$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xForeign relations$zUnited States 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Africans$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican American leadership$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora$xHistory. 676 $a327.7306 686 $aML 5770$2rvk 700 $aTillery$b Alvin B$g(Alvin Bernard),$f1971-$01724528 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814712403321 996 $aBetween homeland and motherland$94126707 997 $aUNINA