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Between Homeland and Motherland : Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America / Alvin B. Tillery.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell paperbacksPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 1 table, 8 charts/graphsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801448973
  • 9780801461019
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.7306 23
LOC classification:
  • DT38 .T55 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. "Not One Was Willing To Go!": The Paradoxes of "Liberia's Offerings" -- 2. "His Failure Will Be Theirs": Why the Black Elite Resisted Garveyism and Embraced Ethiopia -- 3. Protecting "Fertile Fields": The NAACP and Africa during the Cold War -- 4. "The Time for Freedom Has Come": Black Leadership in the Age of Decolonization -- 5. "We Are a Power Bloc": The Congressional Black Caucus and Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe's back-to-Africa movement in the Federal Period to the Congressional Black Caucus's struggle to reach consensus on the African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000. In contrast to the prevailing view that pan-Africanism has been the dominant ideology guiding black leaders in formulating foreign policy positions toward Africa, Tillery highlights the importance of domestic politics and factors within the African American community.Employing an innovative multimethod approach that combines archival research, statistical modeling, and interviews, Tillery argues that among African American elites-activists, intellectuals, and politicians-factors internal to the community played a large role in shaping their approach to African issues, and that shaping U.S. policy toward Africa was often secondary to winning political battles in the domestic arena. At the same time, Africa and its interests were important to America's black elite, and Tillery's analysis reveals that many black leaders have strong attachments to the "motherland."Spanning two centuries of African American engagement with Africa, this book shows how black leaders continuously balanced national, transnational, and community impulses, whether distancing themselves from Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa movement, supporting the anticolonialism movements of the 1950s, or opposing South African apartheid in the 1980s.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. "Not One Was Willing To Go!": The Paradoxes of "Liberia's Offerings" -- 2. "His Failure Will Be Theirs": Why the Black Elite Resisted Garveyism and Embraced Ethiopia -- 3. Protecting "Fertile Fields": The NAACP and Africa during the Cold War -- 4. "The Time for Freedom Has Come": Black Leadership in the Age of Decolonization -- 5. "We Are a Power Bloc": The Congressional Black Caucus and Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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In Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe's back-to-Africa movement in the Federal Period to the Congressional Black Caucus's struggle to reach consensus on the African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000. In contrast to the prevailing view that pan-Africanism has been the dominant ideology guiding black leaders in formulating foreign policy positions toward Africa, Tillery highlights the importance of domestic politics and factors within the African American community.Employing an innovative multimethod approach that combines archival research, statistical modeling, and interviews, Tillery argues that among African American elites-activists, intellectuals, and politicians-factors internal to the community played a large role in shaping their approach to African issues, and that shaping U.S. policy toward Africa was often secondary to winning political battles in the domestic arena. At the same time, Africa and its interests were important to America's black elite, and Tillery's analysis reveals that many black leaders have strong attachments to the "motherland."Spanning two centuries of African American engagement with Africa, this book shows how black leaders continuously balanced national, transnational, and community impulses, whether distancing themselves from Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa movement, supporting the anticolonialism movements of the 1950s, or opposing South African apartheid in the 1980s.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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