Congo love song
Subtitle: African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state
By: Ira Dworkin
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture; John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9781469632711
Subjects: Intellectual life; Anti-imperialist movements; Black nationalism; African Americans; Relations with Africans
Description: 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : James Weldon Johnson's transnational vaudeville; title: Part I. The nineteenth-century routes of Black transnationalism. George Washington Williams's stern duty of history; title: William Henry Sheppard's country of my forefathers; title: Booker T. Washington's African at home; title: Part II. The twentieth-century cultures of the American Congo. Missionary cultures : the American Presbyterian Congo mission, Althea Brown Edmiston, and the languages of the Congo; title: Literary cultures : the Black press, Pauline E. Hopkins, and the rewriting of Africa; title: Visual cultures : Hampton Institute, William Sheppard's Kuba collection, and African American art; title: Part III. The Congo in modern African American poetics and politics. Near the Congo : Langston Hughes and the geopolitics of internationalist poetry; title: Another Black magazine with a Lumumba poem : Patrice Lumumba and African American poetry; title: The chickens coming home to roost : Malcolm X, the Congo, and modern Black nationalism; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix. Malcolm X on the Congo, February 14, 1965, Detroit.