Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State

Author/Contributor(s):	Dworkin, Ira
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	06/12/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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" --