TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Thomas E. TI - Emancipation without equality: pan-African activism and the global color line T2 - African American intellectual history SN - 9781613766422 AV - DT29 .E436 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - Pan-Africanism KW - History KW - Race relations KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Pan-Africanism, savage South Africa and the standard of civilization --; Pan-African thought : Chicago, 1893 and Atlanta, 1895 --; The summer of 1900 : the American Negro Exhibit and the Pan-African Conference --; The pan-African assault on white Christianity --; Manliness, empire and legitimate violence --; Lynching, the "Negro problem" and female voices of protest --; The 1911 Universal Races Congress and pan-African anti-colonialism; 2; b N2 - "At the Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be the global color line, the elevation of "whiteness" that created a racially divided world. While Pan-Africanism recognized the global nature of the color line in this period, Thomas E. Smith argues that it also pushed against it, advocating for what Du Bois called "opportunities and privileges of modern civilization" to open up to people of all colors. Covering a period roughly bookended by two international forums, the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference and the 1911 Universal Races Congress, Emancipation without Equality chronicles how activists of African descent fought globally for equal treatment and access to rights associated with post-emancipated citizenship. While Euro-American leaders created a standard to guide the course of imperialism at the Berlin Conference, the proceedings of the Universal Races Congress demonstrated that Pan-Africanism had become a visible part of a growing, global, anti-imperialist protest"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1986505&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -