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Author:

Dworkin, Ira, 1972- author.

Title:

Congo love song : African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state / Ira Dworkin.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xviii, 439 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Relations with Africans.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Anti-imperialist movements.
Black nationalism.
Africa.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Relations with Africans.
Anti-imperialist movements.
Black nationalism.
Africa.
1800-1999

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

An examination of "black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, [Dworkin] brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

ISBN:

1469632713
9781469632711

OCLC:

(OCoLC)960276811

LCCN:

2016046557

Locations:

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