Imagining Home
Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora
Published on 17. December 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-86091-585-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its "New World" descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. A critical part of the book's overall project is an examination of the legal, educational and political institutions and structures of domination over Africa and the African diaspora. Class and gender are placed at center stage alongside race in the exploration of how the discourses and practices of Pan-Africanism have been shaped.
Other issues raised include the myriad ways in which grassroots religious and cultural movements informed Pan-Africanist political organizations; the role of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals in the formation of Pan-African thought-including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Adelaide Casely Hayford; the historical, ideological and institutional connections between African-Americans and South Africans; and the problems and prospects of Pan-Africanism as an emancipatory strategy for black people throughout the Atlantic.
Other issues raised include the myriad ways in which grassroots religious and cultural movements informed Pan-Africanist political organizations; the role of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals in the formation of Pan-African thought-including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Adelaide Casely Hayford; the historical, ideological and institutional connections between African-Americans and South Africans; and the problems and prospects of Pan-Africanism as an emancipatory strategy for black people throughout the Atlantic.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
518 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86091-585-0 (9780860915850)
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Robin DG Kelley | Sidney J. Lemelle
Imagining Home
Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora
Book
12/1994
Verso Books
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Persons
Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of South California. Sidney J. Lemelle is Professor of History and Black Studies and Chair of History at Pomona College. Paul Buhle is the author or editor of more than three-dozen books. Formerly a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, he produces radical comics today. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Gilroy was born in the East End of London. He is the author of There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack (1987), Small Acts (1993), Between Camps (2000), and After Empire (2004), Black Britain [with Stuart Hall] and Darker than Blue. He was also co-author of The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 1970s Britain (1982). He is the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London, and was the 2019 winner of the Holberg Prize.