Ibrahim Sundiata

Brothers and Strangers

Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This much needed and long awaited book is a godsend not only for its courageous handling of its controversial subject but also for the more general information that it presents in the field of Liberian history. It is indispensable work for anyone professing an interest in Black Atlantic studies."--Wilson Jeremiah Moses, editor of" Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s "and Ferree Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 168mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332473
• ISBN-10: 0822332477
• Artikelnr.: 21060298

Autorenporträt

Ibrahim Sundiata is Spector Professor of History and African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author, most recently, of From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827–1930. Click here to visit Professor Sundiata’s website.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustration ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Confronting the Motherland 11
2. The Black Zion 48
3. Abuse 79
4. Investigation of an Investigation 97
5. Dollar Diplomacy 140
6. A New Deal for Liberia 170
7. Enterprise in Black and White 211
8. The Literary Mirror 229
9. The "Native Problem" 252
10. Fascism and New Zions 286
11. Postscript: Africa and Human Rights 325
Notes 341
Select Bibliography 407
Index 429