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Author:

Putnam, Aric, 1972-

Title:

The insistent call : rhetorical moments in Black anticolonialism, 1929-1937 / Aric Putnam.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

ix, 156 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African diaspora.
Anti-imperialist movements--United States--History--20th century.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Haiti--Social aspects.--American occupation, 1915-1934--Social aspects.
Labor movement--Liberia--History--20th century.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936--Social aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : rhetoric and diaspora -- The politics and practices of colonialism -- Black ethos and the rhetoric of pan-Africa -- "Unhappy Haiti" : U.S. imperialism, racial violence, and the politics of diaspora -- "Modern" slaves : the Liberian labor crisis and the politics of race and class -- Ethiopia is now : J.A. Rogers and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia -- Anticolonial rhetoric and black civil rights history.

ISBN:

1558499776 (library cloth : alk. paper)
9781558499775 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558499784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558499782 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)795171927

LCCN:

2012026784

Locations:

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