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The Americans are coming! : dreams of African American liberation in segregationist South Africa
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The Americans are coming! : dreams of African American liberation in segregationist South Africa / Robert Trent Vinson.
ISBN
9780821419861 (pb : alk. paper)
0821419862 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xv, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2012
Series
New African histories
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-226) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the Americans are coming!
Providential design : the alliance of American Negroes and black South Africans. American Negroes as racial models : from "honorary whites" to "black perils"
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
Transnational martyrdom and the spread of Garveyism in South Africa
"Charlatan or savior?" : Dr. Wellington's prophecies and program of deliverance
A dream deferred : the end of the dream of American Negro liberation and the beginnings of the global antiapartheid movement.
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