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10%OFFRobert Trent Vinson - The Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa - 9780821419861 - V9780821419861
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The Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa

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Description for The Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa Paperback. Presents a case study that places African history and American history in a global context and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies. Series: New African Histories. Num Pages: 236 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.

For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements. Though African Americans suffered under Jim Crow racial discrimination, oppressed Africans saw African Americans as free people who had risen from slavery to success and were role models and potential liberators.
Many African Americans, regarded initially by the South African government as “honorary whites” exempt from segregation, also saw their activities in South Africa as ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821419861
SKU
V9780821419861
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About Robert Trent Vinson
Robert Trent Vinson is the director and chair of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and a research associate at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is a scholar and teacher of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African and African diaspora history, specializing in the transnational connections between southern Africa, the Americas, ... Read more

Reviews for The Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
“Vinson stresses that though Garveyism germinated in the U.S., its broad tenets found fertile ground in South Africa…where South Africans exploited it in numerous ways to fight racism.”
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“Through his extensive archival work in South Africa, Vinson manages to go beyond many existing accounts in order to demonstrate how black South Africans were active participants in ... Read more

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