United States and Africa relations, 1400s to the present / Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falola, Toyin, author.

Njoku, Raphael Chijioke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--Africa.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Summary:

A comprehensive history of the relationship between Africa and the United States Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship’s evolution, tracking African American emancipation, the rise of African diasporas in the Americas, the Back-to-Africa movement, the founding of Sierra Leone and Liberia, the presence of American missionaries in Africa, the development of blues and jazz music, the presidency of Barack Obama, and more.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

One. African Labor and the British American Colony, 1619–1865

Two. The African Diaspora: Memory, Survival, and Longing for Africa

Three. From Land of Freedom to Crown Colony of Sierra Leone

Four. President James Monroe and the Colonization Society: From Monrovia to Liberia

Five. American Missionaries in Africa, 1780–1920s

Six. The Back-to-Africa Movement/Black Zionism, 1916–1940

Seven. The Pan-Africanist Idea

Eight. Cultural Exchanges and Trans-Atlantic Bonds: African Music and the Evolution of Blues and Jazz

Nine. The Civil Rights Movement Meets Decolonization

Ten. The Cold War: U.S. African Foreign Policy Reset

Eleven. African-Born Immigrants in the United States

Twelve. U.S. Pressures: Human Rights and Democratization Movements in Africa, 1989–2016

Thirteen. Africa and the New Global Age: China’s Giant Strides

Fourteen. The Obama Presidency and Africa: Opportunities and Disappointments

Conclusion: Reflections

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25591-8

OCLC:

1198931345