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Author:

Vinson, Robert Trent.

Title:

The Americans are coming! : dreams of African American liberation in segregationist South Africa / Robert Trent Vinson.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xv, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Black nationalism--South Africa.
African Americans--Relations with Africans.
United States--Foreign public opinion, South African.
Blacks--South Africa--Attitudes.
Garvey, Marcus,--1887-1940--Influence.
Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-226) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the Americans are coming! -- Providential design : the alliance of American Negroes and black South Africans. American Negroes as racial models : from "honorary whites" to "black perils" -- The failed dream of British liberation and Christian regeneration. American apocalypse : prophetic Garveyism and the dream of American Negro liberation. The rise of Marcus Garvey and his gospel of Garveyism in Southern Africa -- Transnational martyrdom and the spread of Garveyism in South Africa -- "Charlatan or savior?" : Dr. Wellington's prophecies and program of deliverance -- A dream deferred : the end of the dream of American Negro liberation and the beginnings of the global antiapartheid movement.

Series:

New African histories

ISBN:

0821419862 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821419861 (pb : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)724662899

LCCN:

2011040795

Locations:

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