Encountering Empire

1 - Contents [Seite 6]
2 - Acknowledgments [Seite 10]
3 - List of Abbreviations [Seite 14]
4 - List of Illustrations [Seite 15]
5 - 1. Introduction [Seite 18]
5.1 - 1.1. Encountering Empire: An African American History [Seite 18]
5.2 - 1.2. Perspectives on the Afro-colonial Contact Zone: Christian Missions, African American Transnationalism, and Colonial Africa [Seite 27]
5.3 - 1.3. Reconceiving African American (Anti)colonialism: Method, Sources, and Structure [Seite 41]
6 - Part I. Encountering Colonial Africa: African American Missionaries and the 'Dark Continent' [Seite 52]
6.1 - 2. What's in a Name: The AME Church and Missions to Africa [Seite 58]
6.1.1 - 2.1. The Church of Allen and African Methodism [Seite 58]
6.1.2 - 2.2. Missionary Traditions in the United States [Seite 62]
6.1.3 - 2.3. Missionary Traditions in the AME Church [Seite 65]
6.1.4 - 2.4. The Formation of AME Missionary Structures [Seite 67]
6.2 - 3. Moving onto the Imperial Stage: Colonial Africa and the Self-fashioning of African American Missionaries [Seite 73]
6.2.1 - 3.1. The Pioneers of Black Autoethnography [Seite 73]
6.2.2 - 3.2. "But to See Africa in Africa Is Another Thing": Empiricism and Introspection on the Colonial Frontier [Seite 81]
6.2.3 - 3.3. "Views Fortified by Experience": Passing on the System of Confession [Seite 95]
6.3 - 4. African American Missionaries at Home: Colonial Africa and the Black Metropole [Seite 103]
6.3.1 - 4.1. African American Missionaries at Home [Seite 103]
6.3.2 - 4.2. Manifest Black Male Domesticity: Institutional Reconfigurations [Seite 115]
6.3.3 - 4.3. Managing Black Atlantic Missionary Connections at Home: The AME Church Missionary Department [Seite 123]
6.3.4 - 4.4. Coming Home to Harlem: The New Home of Missions in the Black American Community [Seite 129]
7 - Part II. Encountering the World: The 'American Negro' and the Ecumenical Missionary Movement [Seite 140]
7.1 - 5. "For the Field Is the World": The Formation of the Ecumenical Missionary Movement [Seite 147]
7.1.1 - 5.1. The Theory and Practice of Ecumenism [Seite 147]
7.1.2 - 5.2. The IMC, Indigenization, and the Race Problem [Seite 152]
7.2 - 6. Moving onto the Ecumenical Stage: The AME Church and Ecumenism [Seite 160]
7.2.1 - 6.1. "A United Front": The Formation of Black Ecumenism [Seite 160]
7.2.2 - 6.2. "God's Last Reserve": The AME Church's Ecumenical Self-representation [Seite 165]
7.2.3 - 6.3. The AME Church's Ecumenical Africa Mission and the IMC [Seite 170]
7.3 - 7. The 'American Negro' and Africa: Blackening the South Atlantic [Seite 175]
7.3.1 - 7.1. Indigenizing Black Christianity in the South Atlantic [Seite 175]
7.3.2 - 7.2. The Search for Alternative Paths to Civilization: Black and White Missionaries View the 'American Negro' [Seite 180]
7.3.3 - 7.3. Paving the Way to Colonial Africa: The 'American Negro' Missionary, the IMC, and the British Empire [Seite 184]
8 - Part III. Encountering the Colonial Subject: African American Missionaries and the 'Natives' [Seite 192]
8.1 - 8. Meeting the 'Native': Black Missionary Self-fashioning in Colonial Everyday Life [Seite 198]
8.1.1 - 8.1. The Native Question in Indirect-rule Africa [Seite 198]
8.1.2 - 8.2. The AME Church and the Native Question [Seite 201]
8.1.3 - 8.3. Moving into Empire: The Construction of the Nonnative Black Missionary [Seite 203]
8.1.4 - 8.4. Of 'Natives'' Sisters and Brothers: AME Missionaries and the 'American Negro' [Seite 217]
8.2 - 9. Moving into the Colonial System: AME Institutions in Colonial Africa [Seite 230]
8.2.1 - 9.1. The African AME Church [Seite 230]
8.2.2 - 9.2. The Postwar Debate About New Africa [Seite 235]
8.2.3 - 9.3. Gaining Ground: The 'Native' Worker and Colonial Education in Sierra Leone [Seite 243]
8.2.4 - 9.4. The Outlook of the Afro-colonial Liaison [Seite 257]
8.3 - 10. Afro-colonial Encounters: An Entangled History of African Colonization and African American Emancipation [Seite 263]
8.3.1 - 10.1. Pan-Africanism, the Absence of Empire, and the Silencing of Africa [Seite 263]
8.3.2 - 10.2. The AME Church and Postcolonial Africa [Seite 268]
8.3.3 - 10.3. Beginning African American Postcoloniality [Seite 272]
9 - 11. Works Cited [Seite 276]
10 - Index [Seite 298]