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Author:

Johnson, Robert, Jr.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Africa World Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Colonization--Africa
Back to Africa movement
African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.
African American political activists--Biography.--Biography.
African American social reformers--Biography.
Repatriation--Africa--History--19th century.
Return migration--Africa--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Black nationalism--History--19th century.
African diaspora

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9781592212477
1592212476 (cloth)
9781592212484
1592212484 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61651333

LCCN:

2005024900

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)