Kevin K Gaines: 2 books
Uplifting the Race
Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's potential, black elites espoused...
American Africans in Ghana
Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali--visited or settled...