Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist

Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
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Publisher : University Press of Florida
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9780813072807
ISBN-13 : 0813072808
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Synopsis Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist by : Ashley Robertson Preston

Highlighting Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora This book examines the Pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organizations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora. Broadening the familiar view of Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, Ashley Preston argues that Bethune consistently sought to unify African descendants around the world with her writings, through travel, and as an advisor. Preston shows how Bethune’s early involvement with Black women’s organizations created personal connections across Cuba, Haiti, India, and Africa and shaped her global vision. Bethune founded and led the National Council of Negro Women, which strengthened coalitions with women across the diaspora to address issues in their local communities. Bethune served as director of the Division of Negro Affairs for the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and later as associate consultant for the United Nations alongside W.E.B. DuBois and Walter White, using her influence to address diversity in the military, decolonization, suffrage, and imperialism. Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist provides a fuller, more accurate understanding of Bethune’s work, illustrating the perspective and activism behind Bethune’s much-quoted words: “For I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.” Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Mary Mcleod Bethune in Florida

Mary Mcleod Bethune in Florida
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9781626199835
ISBN-13 : 1626199833
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Mary Mcleod Bethune in Florida by : Ashley N. Robertson

Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904, Bethune galvanized African American women for change. She created an environment in Daytona Beach that, despite racial tension throughout the state, allowed Jackie Robinson to begin his journey to integrating Major League Baseball less than two miles away from her school. Today, her legacy lives through a number of institutions, including Bethune-Cookman University and the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation National Historic Landmark. Historian Ashley Robertson explores the life, leadership and amazing contributions of this dynamic activist.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 025321503X
ISBN-13 : 9780253215031
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis Mary McLeod Bethune by : Mary McLeod Bethune

A biography in documents of one of America's most influential black women. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance

Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 934
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ISBN-10 : 9789956762651
ISBN-13 : 9956762652
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance by : Kini-Yen Kinni

This Book is the outcome of a long project begun thirty years ago. It is a book on the makings of pan-Africanism through the predicaments of being black in a world dominated by being white. The book is a tribute and celebration of the efforts of the African-American and African-Caribbean Diaspora who took the initiative and the audacity to fight and liberate themselves from the shackles of slavery. It is also a celebration of those Africans who in their own way carried the torch of inspiration and resilience to save and reconstruct the Free Humanism of Africa. As a story of the rise from the shackles of slavery and poverty to the summit of Victors of their Renaissance Identity and Self-Determination as a People, the book is the story of African refusal to celebrate victimhood. The book also situates women as central actors in the Pan-African project, which is often presented as an exclusively masculine endeavour. It introduces a balanced gender approach and diagnosis of the Women actors of Pan-Africanism which was very much lacking. The problem of balkanisation of Africa on post-colonial affiliations and colonial linguistic lines has taken its toll on Africas building of its common identity and personality. The result is that Africans are more remote to each other in their pigeon-hole-nation-states which put more restrictions for African inter-mobility, coupled by education and cultural affiliations, the communication and transportation and trading networks which are still tied more to their colonial masters than among themselves. This book looks into the problem of the new wave of Pan-Africanism and what strategies that can be proposed for a more participatory Pan-Africanism inspired by the everyday realities of African masses at home and in the diaspora. This book is the first book of its kind that gives a comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of Pan-Africanism. It is a very timely and vital compendium.

Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism

Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 598
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ISBN-10 : 9780429670626
ISBN-13 : 0429670621
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism by : Reiland Rabaka

The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its continued significance in the 21st century. The handbook features expert introductions to, and critical explorations of, the most important historic and current subjects, theories, and controversies of Pan-Africanism and the evolution of black internationalism. Pan-Africanism is explored and critically engaged from different disciplinary points of view, emphasizing the multiplicity of perspectives and foregrounding an intersectional approach. The contributors provide erudite discussions of black internationalism, black feminism, African feminism, and queer Pan-Africanism alongside surveys of black nationalism, black consciousness, and Caribbean Pan-Africanism. Chapters on neo-colonialism, decolonization, and Africanization give way to chapters on African social movements, the African Union, and the African Renaissance. Pan-African aesthetics are probed via literature and music, illustrating the black internationalist impulse in myriad continental and diasporan artists’ work. Including 36 chapters by acclaimed established and emerging scholars, the handbook is organized into seven parts, each centered around a comprehensive theme: Intellectual origins, historical evolution, and radical politics of Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanist theories Pan-Africanism in the African diaspora Pan-Africanism in Africa Literary Pan-Africanism Musical Pan-Africanism The contemporary and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism is an indispensable source for scholars and students with research interests in continental and diasporan African history, sociology, politics, economics, and aesthetics. It will also be a very valuable resource for those working in interdisciplinary fields, such as African studies, African American studies, Caribbean studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies, and queer studies.

The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One

The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 660
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ISBN-10 : 9781532661334
ISBN-13 : 1532661339
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One by : Estrelda Y. Alexander

This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Neo-Pentecostal, and quasi-Pentecostal bodies within the United States and Canada. In addition, the dictionary contains entries on the important people, places, events, and theological and secular issues that shaped these groups over their histories, some of which go back more than a century. This and subsequent volumes will be invaluable tools for students and scholars of the history of Pentecostalism.

Pan-African Chronology II

Pan-African Chronology II
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 581
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ISBN-10 : 9781476608860
ISBN-13 : 1476608865
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Pan-African Chronology II by : Everett Jenkins, Jr.

This continuation volume of the Pan-African Chronology set covers the most significant events in the African diaspora from the end of the American Civil War through the pre-World War I years. This was a time of great change for black Americans--Reconstruction, the founding of the NAACP, the formation of the separate but equal doctrine, and the migration of blacks from the rural South to Northern cities. The eradication of slavery as a legalized institution was finally realized in the Americas, while the struggle to end it in Asia was also taking place. European colonialism in Africa was accelerated, ironically coinciding with humanitarian efforts to end the slave trade on the African continent. These events and many others are covered here.

For the Many

For the Many
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : 9780691156873
ISBN-13 : 0691156875
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis For the Many by : Dorothy Sue Cobble

Prologue: From Equal Rights to Democratic Equality -- Part I Citizens of the World -- Sitting at the Common Table -- A Higher 'Standard of Life' for the World -- Part II Dreams Deferred -- A 'Parliament of Working Women' -- Social Justice Under Siege -- Pan-Internationalisms -- Part III New Deals -- Social Democracy, American-Style -- Women's New Deal for the World -- Part IV Universal Declarations -- Wartime Journeys -- Intertwined Freedoms -- Cold War Advances -- Part V Redreamings -- The Pivotal Sixties -- Sisters and Resisters -- Epilogue: Of the Many, By the Many, For the Many -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The Haitians

The Haitians
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 453
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ISBN-10 : 9781469660493
ISBN-13 : 1469660490
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Haitians by : Jean Casimir

In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915. The Haitians also critically retheorizes the very nature of slavery, colonialism, and sovereignty. Here, Casimir centers the perspectives of Haiti's moun andeyo—the largely African-descended rural peasantry. Asking how these systematically marginalized and silenced people survived in the face of almost complete political disenfranchisement, Casimir identifies what he calls a counter-plantation system. Derived from Caribbean political and cultural practices, the counter-plantation encompassed consistent reliance on small-scale landholding. Casimir shows how lakou, small plots of land often inhabited by generations of the same family, were and continue to be sites of resistance even in the face of structural disadvantages originating in colonial times, some of which continue to be maintained by the Haitian government with support from outside powers.

The Pan-African Connection

The Pan-African Connection
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Publisher : The Majority Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 0912469110
ISBN-13 : 9780912469119
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pan-African Connection by : Tony Martin

Case studies of the Garvey Movement in South Africa, Trinidad, Jamaica and elsewhere. Includes essays on C L R James, Frantz Fanon, George Padmore, Evangelical Pan-Africanism, the Pan-African conference of 1900 and other topics.