Between Homeland and Motherland Africa U S Foreign Policy and Black Leadership in America 1st Edition by Alvin B Tillery ISBN 0801461014 9780801461019

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ISBN 10: 0801461014 
ISBN 13: 9780801461019
Author: Alvin B Tillery

In Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe’s back-to-Africa movement in the Federal Period to the Congressional Black Caucus’ struggle to reach consensus on the African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000. In contrast to the prevailing view that pan-Africanism has been the dominant ideology guiding black leaders in formulating foreign policy positions toward Africa, Tillery highlights the importance of domestic politics and factors within the African American community.

Employing an innovative multimethod approach that combines archival research, statistical modeling, and interviews, Tillery argues that among African American elites—activists, intellectuals, and politicians—factors internal to the community played a large role in shaping their approach to African issues, and that shaping U.S. policy toward Africa was often secondary to winning political battles in the domestic arena. At the same time, Africa and its interests were important to America’s black elite, and Tillery’s analysis reveals that many black leaders have strong attachments to the “motherland.” Spanning two centuries of African American engagement with Africa, this book shows how black leaders continuously balanced national, transnational, and community impulses, whether distancing themselves from Marcus Garvey’s back-to-Africa movement, supporting the anticolonialism movements of the 1950s, or opposing South African apartheid in the 1980s.

Between Homeland and Motherland Africa U S Foreign Policy and Black Leadership in America 1st Table of contents:

1 “NOT ONE WAS WILLING TO GO!”
2 “HIS FAILURE WILL BE THEIRS”
3 PROTECTING “FERTILE FIELDS”
4 “THE TIME FOR FREEDOM HAS COME”
5 “WE ARE A POWER BLOC”

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