In the first book to examine closely both the American background and the post-migration lives of a substantial number of Liberian emigrants, Clegg focuses on the experiences of over 2,000 black North Carolinians who traded the racial crisis in North Carolina for a new set of ch…
Tracing the transatlantic crossings of Americo-Liberians between 1820 and 1857, in addition to delving into their experiences on both sides of the ocean, Murray discusses how the African neighbors and inhabitants of Liberia recognized significant cultural differences in the newl…
Inhaltsverzeichnis: "To Be Called a Free Colored Man in the States is Synonymous with What We Here Term Slavery": Transformative Mobility and Liberian Travels through the United States -- "All Those Things Desirable for a Map to Show": Space, Cartography, and Control in Colonial…
Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In 'Atlantic Passages', Robert Murray reveals…
"Countering assumptions that the West African colony of Liberia was an endpoint in the journeys of the free people of color who traveled there, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shap…
"Countering assumptions that the West African colony of Liberia was an endpoint in the journeys of the free people of color who traveled there, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shap…
Introduction. The World Colonization Made -- A Republic Once Removed -- Colonization Doctrines -- Colonization Policies in an Age of Removal -- Settler Republics in Black and White -- The United States of Africa -- Reimagining Colonization in the Americas -- Epilogue. The Racial…
"This book is about the colonization movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in North America. The colonization movement was a movement and set of ideas to create independent democratic settlements of free African Americans outside the boundaries of the United S…
In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as we…
"In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E.J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as we…
"In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as w…
Based on case studies in three African countries and new social movement theory, examines individual and group protests stood up to violence and oppression through mainly nonviolent means
Based on case studies in three African countries and new social movement theory, examines individual and group protests stood up to violence and oppression through mainly nonviolent means.
