Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-270) and index.
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Africa the motherland -- Discovering a usable African past -- Institutionalizing Africa, past and present -- The artistic capital of Africa -- Haiti, a stepping-stone to Africa -- Ethiopia ahoy! -- What's in a name?
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Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.
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Title
Becoming African Americans.
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9780674032620
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African Americans-- History-- 1877-1964.
African Americans-- Race identity.
African Americans-- Social conditions-- 20th century.
African diaspora.
African Americans-- Race identity.
African Americans-- Social conditions.
African Americans.
African diaspora.
Gesellschaft
HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.