ISBN:
9781613762219
,
1613762216
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (168 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Putnam, Aric, 1972- Insistent call
DDC:
305.8960730904
Keywords:
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 Social aspects
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Labor movement History
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20th century
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Liberia
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American prose literature African American authors
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History and criticism
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Rhetoric Political aspects
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United States
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Anti-imperialist movements History
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20th century
;
United States
;
African Americans Attitudes
;
History
;
20th century
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African Americans Race identity
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History
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20th century
;
African diaspora
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Anti-imperialist movements History 20th century
;
Rhetoric Political aspects
;
African Americans Attitudes 20th century
;
History
;
African Americans Race identity 20th century
;
History
;
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 Social aspects
;
Labor movement History 20th century
;
American prose literature African American authors
;
History and criticism
;
Anti-imperialist movements
;
Labor movement
;
Rhetoric ; Political aspects
;
Social aspects
;
African Americans ; Race identity
;
HISTORY ; Social History
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African diaspora
;
American prose literature ; African American authors
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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African Americans ; Attitudes
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Haiti History
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Social aspects
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American occupation, 1915-1934
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Haiti
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Liberia
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United States
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Haiti History American occupation, 1915-1934
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Social aspects
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United States
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Haiti
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Liberia
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Electronic book
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Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Throughout the nineteenth century, African heritage played an important role in black America, as personal memories and cultural practices continued to shape the everyday experience of people of African descent living under the shadow of slavery. Resisting efforts to de-Africanize their values, customs, and beliefs, black Americans invoked their African roots in public arguments about their identity and place in the "new" world. At the outset of the twentieth century many still saw Africa primarily as the source of a common cultural and spiritual past. But after the 1920s, the meaning of African heritage changed as people of African descent expressed new relationships between themselves, the United States, and the African Diaspora. In The Insistent Call, Aric Putnam studies the rhetoric of newspapers, literature, and political pamphlets that expressed this shift. He demonstrates that as people of African descent debated the United States' occupation of Haiti, the Liberian labor crisis, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, they formed a new collective identity, one that understood the African Diaspora in primarily political rather than cultural terms. In addition to uncovering a neglected period in the history of black rhetoric, Putnam shows how rhetoric that articulates the interests of a population not defined by the boundaries of a state can still motivate collective action and influence policies."--Project Muse
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