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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The one hundred year history of how Europe coerced the African continent into its various empires-and the resulting story of how Africa succeeded in decolonization. In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within one hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the...
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"The First African Statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule. His greatest achievement was to win the right of black peoples in Africa to have a vote and to determine their own destiny. This revised edition of Birmingham's biography chronicles the public...
5) White philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's an American dilemma and the making of a white world order
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.S. race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: that An American Dilemma never was commissioned, funded, or written with the goal of deeply challenging white supremacy. It was commissioned by Carnegie Corporation President Frederick Keppel, and researched and...
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