Returning home : a century of African-American repatriation / Robert Johnson, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Robert, Jr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Colonization--Africa.

African Americans.

African Americans--Colonization.

Black nationalism.

History.

African Americans--Migrations.

Return migration.

Repatriation.

African American social reformers.

African American political activists.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Africa.

Back to Africa movement.

African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.

African American political activists--Biography.

African American social reformers--Biography.

Repatriation--Africa--History--19th century.

Return migration--Africa--History--19th century.

African Americans--Migrations--History--19th century.

Black nationalism--History--19th century.

African diaspora.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2005]

Contents:

The Haitian Revolution : the genesis of African-American nationalism

Paul Cuffe and African-American repatriation

Afro-British resettlement : the earliest European experiment

African-American militancy and the impetus for colonization

The integration-separation debate

Resettlement options in the Americas

Liberia, racism and economic dependency

John Brown Russwurm : compromise and political power

The African nationalist ideology of Edward Wilmot Blyden

Voluntary repatriation and nationalism

African-American women and repatriation

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American institutional support for repatriation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 283) and index.

ISBN:

1592212476

1592212484

OCLC:

61651333