Imagining home : class, culture, and nationalism in the African diaspora / edited by Sidney J. Lemelle and Robin D.G. Kelley. PRINT

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Imagining Home: Pan-Africanism Revisited / Sidney J. Lemelle, Robin D.G. Kelley -- The Cultural Politics of Pan-Africanism. 'What Is Africa to Me?': African Strategies in the Harlem Renaissance / Kathy J. Ogren ; 'Afric's Sons with Banner Red': African-American Communists and the Politics of Culture, 1919-1934 / Robin D.G. Kelley ; Pan-Africanism, Feminism and Culture / Maryse Conde ; Rastafarians and Ethiopianism / Gersham A. Nelson ; Renewed Traditions: Countrapuntal Voices in Haitian Social Organization / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith ; Sounds Authentic: Black Music, Ethnicity, and the Challenge of a Changing Same / Paul Gilroy -- Contradictory Legacy: Black Intellectuals and Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism as Process: Adelaide Casely Hayford, Garveyism, and the Cultural Roots of Nationalism / Barbara Bair ; W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Sovereignty / Cedric J. Robinson ; C.L.R. James: Paradoxical Pan-Africanist / Paul Buhle ; Writers and Assassinations / Barbara Harlow ; Max Yergan and South Africa: A Transatlantic Interaction / David H. Anthony -- Southern Africa and the United States: Towards the Twenty-First Century. Apartheid and the U.S. South / Ann Seidman ; Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Education: Towards a New Understanding / William H. Watkins ; Pan-Africanism and Apartheid: African-American Influence on US Foreign Policy / Lako Tongun -- Theory of Liberation, or Liberation from Theory?: Rethinking Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism and African Liberation / Horace Campbell ; Pan-Africanism or Classical African Marxism? / Ntongela Masilela ; The Politics of Cultural Existence: Pan-Africanism, Historical Materialism and Afrocentricity / Sidney J. Lemelle -- Appendix A. The Seventh Pan-African Congress: Notes from North American Delegates / William H. Watkins, Abdul Alkalimat, Marian Kramer -- Appendix B. Resist Recolonisation!: General Declaration by the Delegates and Participants at the 7th Pan-African Congress.

"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."--Publisher's description.