Eleven. African-Born Immigrants in the United States

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The age of Slavocrats: labor, culture, and power relations
6. One. African Labor and the British American Colony, 1619–1865 17
7. Two. The African Diaspora: Memory, Survival, and Longing for Africa 45
8. Three. From Land of Freedom to Crown Colony of Sierra Leone 63
9. Four. President James Monroe and the Colonization Society: From Monrovia to Liberia 84
10. Part II. The age of ideas: pragmatism, self-preservation, and African regenerations
11. Five. American Missionaries in Africa, 1780–1920s 107
12. Six. The Back-to-Africa Movement/Black Zionism, 1916–1940 129
13. Seven. The Pan-Africanist Idea 150
14. Eight. Cultural Exchanges and Trans-Atlantic Bonds: African Music and the Evolution of Blues and Jazz 164
15. Part III. African colonial freedom and the modern experience
16. Nine. The Civil Rights Movement Meets Decolonization 185
17. Ten. The Cold War: U.S. African Foreign Policy Reset 206
18. Eleven. African-Born Immigrants in the United States 229
19. Twelve. U.S. Pressures: Human Rights and Democratization Movements in Africa, 1989–2016 246
20. Thirteen. Africa and the New Global Age: China’s Giant Strides 260
21. Fourteen. The Obama Presidency and Africa: Opportunities and Disappointments 284
22. Conclusion: Reflections 307
23. Notes 311
24. Index 389