Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

A critical study of Edward Wilmot Blyden, whose voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction
Africa: Service, Suffering, and Subjection
The Critique of Eurocentrism
Ishmael in Africa: Black Protestant Islamophilia
The African American "Civilizing Mission"
The "Mulatto" Nemesis
Appraising the Colonial Enterprise
Epilogue: Post-Blydenian Reflections

About the author

Tibebu Teshale is Professor of History at Temple University.

Product details

• Authors: Tibebu Teshale, Teshale Tibebu
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9781580464284
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-428-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology