Title Between homeland and motherland : Africa, U.S. foreign policy, and Black leadership in America / Alvin B. Tillery, Jr

Published Ithaca [N.Y.] ; London : Cornell University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) : illustrations Series Cornell paperbacks Cornell paperbacks. Contents Not one was willing to go! : the paradoxes of Liberia's offerings -- His failure will be theirs : why the Black elite resisted Garveyism and embraced Ethiopia -- Protecting fertile fields : the NAACP and Africa during the Cold War -- The time for freedom has come : Black leadership in the age of decolonization -- We are a power bloc : the Congressional Black Caucus and Africa Summary 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's 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans -- Relations with Africans -- History African American leadership -- History African diaspora -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. African American leadership African Americans -- Relations with Africans African diaspora Diplomatic relations SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Africa Africa -- Foreign relations -- United States Subject Africa United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2010040740 ISBN 9780801461019 0801461014 0801461499 9780801461491

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