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Available
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Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Description
Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.
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History / Corbould
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ISBN
9780674032620
Awards
WK Hancock Prize (Highly Commended — 2010)