Congo love song : African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state

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Label

Congo love song : African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state

Title remainder

African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state

Statement of responsibility

Ira Dworkin

Creator

• Dworkin, Ira, 1972-

Author

• Dworkin, Ira, 1972-

Subject

• African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Relations with Africans
• Anti-imperialist movements
• Black nationalism
• Africa
• African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

An examination of "black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, [Dworkin] brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism"--

Member of

• John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NcU/DLC

Dewey number

305.896/073

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture