Travel and the Pan African Imagination

This book explores the African Atlantic world as a productive theater or space where modernity, racialized dominance, and racialized resistance took form. The book examines Black Power ideology, Pan Africanism, dilemmas facing the racialized imagination of African world community figures, and the discipline of Africology.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Denmark Vesey, Armed Resistance, and the Emergence of Pan Africanism
Chapter 2: Explorations of Christianity and Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden's Travels in Africa and the Middle East
Chapter 3: "We need some African power": Edward Wilmot Blyden and The Negro, or The Conservative Origins of Black Power Ideology
Chapter 4: Anglo-Africans and Negro-Saxons: Writing the History of African Nationalism via Alexander Crummell
Conclusion: Africology and the New Millennium

About the author

Tracy Keith Flemming is associate professor of area and global studies at Grand Valley State University.

Summary

This book explores the African Atlantic world as a productive theater or space where modernity, racialized dominance, and racialized resistance took form. The book examines Black Power ideology, Pan Africanism, dilemmas facing the racialized imagination of African world community figures, and the discipline of Africology.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Keith Flemming
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781498582544
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8254-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving; Black Diasporic Worlds: Origin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), African History, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies