American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by Kevin K. Gaines

PDF, 2008

Publication

University of North Carolina Press (2008), Edition: New edition, 360 pages

ISBN

0807858935 / 9780807858936

Notes

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Watching the World from Ghana
1 Mapping the Routes to Ghana - Black Modernity, Subjecthood, and Demands for Full Citizenship
2 Richard Wright in Ghana - Black Intellectuals and the Anticolonial Critique of Western Culture
3 Projecting the African Personality - Nkrumah, the Expatriates, and Postindependence Ghana, 1957–1960
4 Pauli Murray in Ghana - The Congo Crisis and an African American Woman’s Dilemma
5 Escape to Ghana - Julian Mayfield and the Radical ‘‘Afros’’
6 Malcolm X in Ghana
7 The Coup
8 After Ghana - Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being
Epilogue - Memory and the Transnational Dimensions of African American Citizenship
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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