Travel and the Pan African Imagination (Hardcover)

Travel and the Pan African Imagination explores the African Atlantic world as a productive theater or space where modernity, racialized dominance, and racialized resistance took form. The book stresses the importance of placing three Atlantic figures-the Charleston, South Carolina-based armed resistance leader Denmark Vesey; the West African emigration advocate Edward Wilmot Blyden, and the Christian missionary and teacher in Liberia as well as the United States, Alexander Crummell-within an Atlantic context and as African world community figures between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The book also examines the religious origins of Black Power ideology and modern Pan Africanism as products of the intense dialogue within the African world community about concepts of modernity, progress, and civilization. Tracy Keith Flemming identifies how travel and social mobility led to the generation of an ever more complex and dynamic Atlantic world and of a fluid and adaptive African world community imagination for those figures who were forced to operate within and against a racially framed universe. The vexing social position and symbolic figure of "the African" was central to the dilemmas facing the racialized imagination of African world community figures and the discipline of Africology.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Tracy Keith Flemming
Dimensions:	227 x 163 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-8254-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > History > African history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4985-8254-0
Barcode:	9781498582544

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