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American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African...
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by Kevin K. Gaines
Sales Rank: 165879
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Cover Type: Paperback with 360 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press December 6, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807858935
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807858936
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
This book gives unprecedented insight into both the promise and the challenge of Pan-Africanism.
Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
Gaines's book is groundbreaking in many respects providing ample evidence to challenge contemporary nationalist notions of diaspora.
Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University
He has written a book that is indispensable for a complete grasp of that history.
—The Journal of American History
In American Africans in Ghana, Kevin Gaines offers a richly detailed portrait of the community that gathered in Ghana around Nkrumah.
—New York Review of Books
Gaines has written an great and important book.
—The Nation
Book Description
In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammed Ali--visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these expatriates to Ghana and how their new community was shaped by the convergence of the Cold War, the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, and the decolonization of Africa.
Posing a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's president, promoted a vision of African liberation, continental unity, and West Indian federation. Although the number of African American expatriates in Ghana was small, in espousing a transnational American citizenship defined by solidarities with African peoples, these activists waged along with their allies in the United States a fundamental, if largely forgotten, struggle over the meaning and content of the formal American citizenship conferred on African Americans by civil rights reform legislation.
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