Congo love song : African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state / Ira Dworkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dworkin, Ira, 1972- author.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Africans.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Black nationalism.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xviii, 439 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469632711

1469632713

OCLC:

960276811