The Americans are coming!
Subtitle: dreams of African American liberation in segregationist South Africa
By: Robert Trent Vinson
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821419861
Subjects: Attitudes; Blacks; South African Foreign public opinion; African Americans; Universal Negro Improvement Association; Black nationalism; Influence; Relations with Africans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Americans are coming!; title: Providential design : the alliance of American Negroes and black South Africans. American Negroes as racial models : from "honorary whites" to "black perils"; title: 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; title: Transnational martyrdom and the spread of Garveyism in South Africa; title: "Charlatan or savior?" : Dr. Wellington's prophecies and program of deliverance; title: A dream deferred : the end of the dream of American Negro liberation and the beginnings of the global antiapartheid movement.