In Search of Power - African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974

Informationen zum Autor Brenda Gayle Plummer is Merze Tate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and currently chairs the department of Afro-American Studies. She is the author of Rising Wind: Black Americans and US Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960 (1996), Haiti and the United States (1992) and Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902–1915 (1988). She is the editor of Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988 (2003). Klappentext In Search of Power is a history of the era of civil rights, decolonization and Black Power, from 1956 to 1974. Zusammenfassung In Search of Power is a history of the era of civil rights! decolonization and Black Power! from 1956 to 1974. Brenda Gayle Plummer traces the detailed connections between African Americans' involvement in international affairs and how they shaped American foreign policy! integrating African American history! the history of the African Diaspora and the history of United States foreign relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A great restlessness; 2. Peace or a sword?; 3. 'Freedom's struggle crosses oceans and mountains'; 4. Meeting Odinga; 5. When race doesn't matter; 6. Embracing the globe; 7. Race, space, and displacement; 8. Africa and liberation; 9. Agenda setting on two continents; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Gayle Plummer, Brenda Gayle (University of Wisconsin Plummer, Plummer Brenda Gayle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107654716
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65471-6
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, History, HISTORY / United States / General, International Relations, Politics & government, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, African History, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Civics and citizenship