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Black Liberation : A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa.

Fredrickson, George M.

Black Liberation : A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa.

Fredrickson, George M.

9780198022350

Fredrickson, George M.

1 online resource (401 pages)

Contents -- Introduction -- 1. "Palladium of the People's Liberties": The Suffrage Question and the Origins of Black Protest -- Black Voting in the Nineteenth Century -- The Ballot in African-American Protest Thought, 1840-1905 -- The Cape Suffrage and the Origins of Black Protest Politics in South Africa -- Suffrage Struggles: Connections and Comparisons -- 2. "Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Christianity and the Politics of Liberation -- The Problem of Religion and Resistance -- Ethiopianist Thought in the Nineteenth Century -- Popular Ethiopianism and African-American Missions to Africa -- Ethiopianism in South Africa -- What Happened to American Ethiopianism? -- 3. Protest of "The Talented Tenth": Black Elites and the Rise of Segregation -- The Making of Segregation -- African-Americans Mobilize Against Segregation -- The National Congress in Comparative Perspective -- Resisting the High Tide of Segregation, 1913-1919 -- 4. "Africa for the Africans": Pan-Africanism and Black Populism, 1918-1930 -- Working-Class Protest and Middle-Class Organizations, 1918-1921 -- Elite Pan-Africanism -- Populist Pan-Africanism: The Garvey Movement -- Black Populism in South Africa: Garveyism and the ICU -- Two Black Populisms: Comparing the UNIA and the ICU -- 5. "Self-Determination for Negroes": Communists and Black Freedom Struggles, 1928-1948 -- Reds and Blacks: Introduction and Overview -- Rise of the Black Self-Determination Policy -- Blacks and the United Front, 1934-1939 -- The Second World War and the Parting of the Ways -- 6. "We Shall Not Be Moved": Nonviolent Resistance to White Supremacy, 1940-1965 -- The Gandhian Tradition -- Nonviolence in South Africa -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolence in the American South -- Comparing Nonviolent Struggles -- 7. "Black Man You Are on Your Own": Black Power and Black Consciousness.

Pan-Africanism in South Africa, 1944-1960 -- The Rise of Black Power in the United States -- Black Consciousness in South Africa -- Comparing Black Power and Black Consciousness -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, he met universal acclaim. David Brion Davis, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it "one of the most brilliant and successful studies in comparative history ever written." The book was honored with the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Merle Curti Award, and a jury nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Now comes the sequel to that acclaimed work. In Black Liberation, George Fredrickson offers a fascinating account of how blacks in the United States and South Africa came to grips with the challenge of white supremacy. He reveals a rich history--not merely of parallel developments, but of an intricate, transatlantic web of influences and cross-fertilization. He begins with early moments of hope in both countries--Reconstruction in the United States, and the liberal colonialism of British Cape Colony--when the promise of suffrage led educated black elites to fight for color-blind equality. A rising tide of racism and discrimination at the turn of the century, however, blunted their hopes and encouraged nationalist movements in both countries. Fredrickson teases out the connections between movements and nations, examining the transatlantic appeal of black religious nationalism (known as Ethiopianism), and the pan-Africanism of Du Bois and Garvey. He brings to vivid life the decades of struggle, organizing, and debate, as blacks in the United States looked to Africa for identity and South Africans looked to America for new ideas and hope. The book traces the rise of Communist influence in black movements in the two nations in the 1920s and '30s, and the adoption of Gandhian nonviolent protest after World War II. The story of India's struggle, however, was not to be repeated in either America or South Africa: in one nation,

nonviolence revealed its limitations, encouraging splits in the civil rights movement; in the other, it failed, fostering an armed struggle against white supremacy. Fredrickson brings the story up through the present, exploring the divergence between African-American identity politics and the nonracialism that has triumphed in South Africa. In a career spanning thirty years, George Fredrickson has won recognition as the leading scholar of the struggle over racial domination in the United States and South Africa. In Black Liberation, he provides the essential companion volume to his award-winning White Supremacy, telling the story of how blacks fought back on both sides of the Atlantic.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

African Americans -- Politics and government.

Black nationalism -- South Africa -- History.

Black nationalism -- United States -- History.

Blacks -- South Africa -- Politics and government.

Civil rights movements -- South Africa -- History.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.

Pan-Africanism -- History.

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