United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

by Toyin Falola, Raphael Chijioke Njoku

Overview

A comprehensive history of the relationship between Africa and the United States

Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship’s evolution, tracking African American emancipation, the rise of African diasporas in the Americas, the Back-to-Africa movement, the founding of Sierra Leone and Liberia, the presence of American missionaries in Africa, the development of blues and jazz music, the presidency of Barack Obama, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300234831
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin. Raphael Chijioke Njoku is Director and Department Chair of Global Studies and Languages at Idaho State University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Part I The Age of Slavocrats: Labor, Culture, and Power Relations

1 African Labor and the British American Colony, 1619-1865 17

2 The African Diaspora: Memory, Survival, and Longing for Africa 45

3 From Land of Freedom to Crown Colony of Sierra Leone 63

4 President James Monroe and the Colonization Society: From Monrovia to Liberia 84

Part II The Age of Ideas: Pragmatism, Self-Preservation, and African Regenerations

5 American Missionaries in Africa, 1780-1920s 107

6 The Back-to-Africa Movement/Black Zionism, 1916-1940 129

7 The Pan-Africanist Idea 150

8 Cultural Exchanges and Trans-Atlantic Bonds: African Music and the Evolution of Blues and Jazz 164

Part III African Colonial Freedom and the Modern Experience

9 The Civil Rights Movement Meets Decolonization 185

10 The Cold War: U.S. African Foreign Policy Reset 206

11 African-Born Immigrants in the United States 229

12 U.S. Pressures: Human Rights and Democratization Movements in Africa, 1989-2016 246

13 Africa and the New Global Age: China's Giant Strides 260

14 The Obama Presidency and Africa: Opportunities and Disappointments 284

Conclusion: Reflections 307

Notes 311

Index 389