Africans on African Americans: the Creation and Uses of an African American Myth - Yekutiel Gershoni - Books - NYU Press - 9780814730829 - March 1, 1997
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Africans on African Americans: the Creation and Uses of an African American Myth First edition

Yekutiel Gershoni

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Africans on African Americans: the Creation and Uses of an African American Myth First edition

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the eve of World War II, Africans displaced by colonial rule aggrandized the attainments of American blacks, creating an African american myth that played an important role in their religious, political and social life. This myth, while existing in direct contradiction to the intense discrimination faced by black people in the United States, provided Africans with an inspirational model upon which to improve their lives.

Africans on African-Americans traces the development of the African American myth and the way in which the Liberal Movement in South Africa looked to America for a formula for racial harmony that eluded their troubled country. While highlighting the strength of the African american myth, Gershoni also demonstrates that everywhere the myth had adherents it also had opponents, who insisted that the solution to Africa's ills lay in African culture and African peoples.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 1, 1997
ISBN13 9780814730829
Publishers NYU Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 140 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   471 g
Language English  

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