Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements / Edition 1

by Ronald W. Walters

Overview

Based on original materials gathered from extensive international travel, hundreds of interviews and empirical field research, and text studies Pan-African organizations and their political activities inside black communities.

This groundbreaking volume analyzes important case studies of Black political movements since the 1960s and the impact of the movements on the African American community. Herein, Walters analyzes heretofore largely unaddressed cases in which African American societies forged connections with others in the Diaspora within the framework of significant political movements.

Walters uses the tools of comparative politics for examining similar Black and white social institutions and organizations in the US and other countries and for creating a "tailored" Pan African perspective as a criteria with which to describe the interactive relationships between the American Black community and Blacks in Britain, South Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He fashions a unique and radically new perspective and model for addressing the age-old question of the African continuum by advancing the notion that Pan Africanism can be about the struggle for community - a struggle not incompatible with efforts to change the State. His is a twenty-first century view of race relations and classes in the post-modern era of capitalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814321850
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Series:	African American Life Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ronald W. Walters, a Professor of Afro-American Studies, Government and Politics and Senior Fellow at the Center for Political Leadership, University of Maryland, received his Ph.D. from American University. His books include Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign and Black Presidential Politics in America, winner of the Ralph Bunche Prize and the W. E. B. DuBois Award.

What People are Saying About This

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Mit - Willard R. Johnson

Ron Walters has had a most unusual depth and breadth of experience with and exposure to the richness, complexity, and significance of the idea of Africa among her peoples throughout the world, as well as her adversaries. In this book he reveals and extols the continuing vitality the African spirit has in influencing the culture, politics, and sense of destiny and identity of nearly a sixth of the world's people. No one can understand our times without grasping this reality.

Editorial Reviews

Ron Walters has had a most unusual depth and breadth of experience with and exposure to the richness, complexity, and significance of the idea of Africa among her peoples throughout the world, as well as her adversaries. In this book he reveals and extols the continuing vitality the African spirit has in influencing the culture, politics, and sense of destiny and identity of nearly a sixth of the world's people. No one can understand our times without grasping this reality.--Willard R. Johnson "Professor Emeritus of Political Science, MIT"

From the Publisher

Ron Walters has had a most unusual depth and breadth of experience with and exposure to the richness, complexity, and significance of the idea of Africa among her peoples throughout the world, as well as her adversaries. In this book he reveals and extols the continuing vitality the African spirit has in influencing the culture, politics, and sense of destiny and identity of nearly a sixth of the world's people. No one can understand our times without grasping this reality.

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, MIT - Willard R. Johnson

Walters (political science, Howard U.) uses the tools of comparative politics for examining similar Black and white social institutions and organizations in the US and other countries and for creating a "tailored" Pan African perspective as a criteria with which to describe the interactive relationships between the American Black community and Blacks in Britain, South Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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