Imagining Home Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora

Name: Imagining Home Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780860915850

ISBN-10: 0860915859

ISBN-13: 9780860915850

Edition: 1994

Authors: Sidney J. Lemelle, Robin D. G. Kelley, Bloomsbury Agency Staff

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This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its “New World” descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. A critical part of the book’s overall project is an examination of the legal, educational and political institutions and structures of domination over Africa and the African diaspora. Class and gender are placed at center stage alongside race in the exploration of how the discourses and practices of Pan-Africanism have…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 12/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction : Imagining Home: Pan-Africanism Revisited




The Cultural Politics of Pan-Africanism



'What Is Africa to Me?': African Strategies in the Harlem Renaissance




'Afric's Sons with Banner Red': African-American Communists and the Politics of Culture, 1919-1934




Pan-Africanism, Feminism and Culture




Rastafarians and Ethiopianism




Renewed Traditions: Countrapuntal Voices in Haitian Social Organization




Sounds Authentic: Black Music, Ethnicity, and the Challenge of a Changing Same




Contradictory Legacy: Black Intellectuals and Pan-Africanism



Pan-Africanism as Process: Adelaide Casely Hayford, Garveyism, and the Cultural Roots of Nationalism




W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Sovereignty




C.L.R. James: Paradoxical Pan-Africanist




Writers and Assassinations




Max Yergan and South Africa: A Transatlantic Interaction




Southern Africa and the United States: Towards the Twenty-First Century



Apartheid and the U.S. South




Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Education: Towards a New Understanding




Pan-Africanism and Apartheid: African-American Influence on US Foreign Policy




Theory of Liberation, or Liberation from Theory?: Rethinking Pan-Africanism



Pan-Africanism and African Liberation




Pan-Africanism or Classical African Marxism?




The Politics of Cultural Existence: Pan-Africanism, Historical Materialism and Afrocentricity



Appendix A The Seventh Pan-African Congress: Notes from North American Delegates



Appendix B Resist Recolonisation!: General Declaration by the Delegates and Participants at the 7th Pan-African Congress


Contributors


Index