American Africans in Ghana : Black expatriates and the civil rights era /
In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammed Ali--visited or settle...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Watching the world from Ghana
- Mapping the routes to Ghana : black modernity, subjecthood, and demands for full citizenship
- Richard Wright in Ghana : black intellectuals and the anticolonial critique of Western culture
- Projecting the African personality : Nkrumah, the expatriates, and postindependence Ghana, 1957-1960
- Pauli Murray in Ghana : Congo crisis and an African American woman's dilemma
- Escape to Ghana : Julian Mayfield and the radical "Afros"
- Malcolm X in Ghana
- The coup
- After Ghana : ways of seeing, ways of being
- Epilogue: Memory and the transnational dimensions of African American citizenship.