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The Americans are coming! [[electronic resource] ] : dreams of African American liberation in segregationist South Africa / / Robert Trent Vinson



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Autore: Vinson Robert Trent Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Americans are coming! [[electronic resource] ] : dreams of African American liberation in segregationist South Africa / / Robert Trent Vinson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens, OH, : Ohio University Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina: 320.5460968
Soggetto topico: Black nationalism - South Africa
African Americans - Relations with Africans
Black people - South Africa - Attitudes
Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign public opinion, South African
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 Afric
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ISBN: 0-8214-4405-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779074803321
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Serie: New African histories series.