TY - BOOK AU - Dworkin,Ira TI - Congo love song: African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state T2 - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture SN - 9781469632735 AV - E185 .C664 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - African Americans KW - Relations with Africans KW - Intellectual life KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Black nationalism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction. James Weldon Johnson's Transnational Vaudeville ; Part I. The Nineteenth-Century Routes of Black Transnationalism ; Chapter 1. George Washington Williams's Stern Duty of History ; Chapter 2. William Henry Sheppard's Country of My Forefathers ; Chapter 3. Booker T. Washington's African at Home ; Part II. The Twentieth-Century Cultures of the American Congo ; Chapter 4. Missionary Cultures: The American Presbyterian Congo Mission, Althea Brown Edmiston, and the Languages of the Congo; Chapter 5. Literary Cultures: The Black Press, Pauline E. Hopkins, and the Rewriting of Africa ; Chapter 6. Visual Cultures: Hampton Institute, William Sheppard's Kuba Collection, and African American Art ; Part III. The Congo in Modern African American Poetics and Politics ; Chapter 7. Near the Congo: Langston Hughes and the Geopolitics of Internationalist Poetry ; Chapter 8. Another Black Magazine with a Lumumba Poem: Patrice Lumumba and African American Poetry ; Chapter 9. The Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Malcolm X, the Congo, and Modern Black Nationalism ; Conclusion ; Appendix. Malcolm X on the Congo, February 14, 1965, Detroit Notes; 2; b N2 - An examination of "black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, [Dworkin] brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1517673&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -