Encountering Empire : African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900-1939.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Encountering Empire: An African American History; 1.2. Perspectives on the Afro-colonial Contact Zone: Christian Missions, African American Transnationalism, and Colonial Africa; 1.3. Reconceiving African American (Anti)colonialism: Method, Sources, and Structure; Part I. Encountering Colonial Africa: African American Missionaries and the 'Dark Continent'; 2. What's in a Name: The AME Church and Missions to Africa; 2.1. The Church of Allen and African Methodism

2.2. Missionary Traditions in the United States2.3. Missionary Traditions in the AME Church; 2.4. The Formation of AME Missionary Structures; 3. Moving onto the Imperial Stage: Colonial Africa and the Self-fashioning of African American Missionaries; 3.1. The Pioneers of Black Autoethnography; 3.2. "But to See Africa in Africa Is Another Thing": Empiricism and Introspection on the Colonial Frontier; 3.3. "Views Fortified by Experience": Passing on the System of Confession; 4. African American Missionaries at Home: Colonial Africa and the Black Metropole

4.1. African American Missionaries at Home4.2. Manifest Black Male Domesticity: Institutional Reconfigurations; 4.3. Managing Black Atlantic Missionary Connections at Home: The AME Church Missionary Department; 4.4. Coming Home to Harlem: The New Home of Missions in the Black American Community; Part II. Encountering the World: The 'American Negro' and the Ecumenical Missionary Movement; 5. "For the Field Is the World": The Formation of the Ecumenical Missionary Movement; 5.1. The Theory and Practice of Ecumenism; 5.2. The IMC, Indigenization, and the Race Problem

6. Moving onto the Ecumenical Stage: The AME Church and Ecumenism6.1. "A United Front": The Formation of Black Ecumenism; 6.2. "God's Last Reserve": The AME Church's Ecumenical Self-representation; 6.3. The AME Church's Ecumenical Africa Mission and the IMC; 7. The 'American Negro' and Africa: Blackening the South Atlantic; 7.1. Indigenizing Black Christianity in the South Atlantic; 7.2. The Search for Alternative Paths to Civilization: Black and White Missionaries View the 'American Negro'

7.3. Paving the Way to Colonial Africa: The 'American Negro' Missionary, the IMC, and the British EmpirePart III. Encountering the Colonial Subject: African American Missionaries and the 'Natives'; 8. Meeting the 'Native': Black Missionary Self-fashioning in Colonial Everyday Life; 8.1. The Native Question in Indirect-rule Africa; 8.2. The AME Church and the Native Question; 8.3. Moving into Empire: The Construction of the Nonnative Black Missionary; 8.4. Of 'Natives'' Sisters and Brothers: AME Missionaries and the 'American Negro'

9. Moving into the Colonial System: AME Institutions in Colonial Africa

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