Bøger af Tunde Adeleke

Through different disciplinary perspectives, the authors shed light on the rich and complex Africa-Black Diaspora world; revealing historical transformation and transmutations that continue to define and reshape what is undoubtedly a landscape of dizzying expansion, transformations, and complexities, if not contradictions.

Martin R. Delany (1812-1885) was one of the leading and most influential Black activists and nationalists in American history. This book reveals and analyses Delany's contributions to debates and discourses about strategies for elevating Black people and improving race relations in the nineteenth century.

Before Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. This study of his life and thought, the first critical biography of the pivotal African American thinker written by a historian argues that Delany reflects the spectrum of the nineteenth-century black independence movement.

Deconstructs Afrocentric essentialism by illuminating and interrogating the problematic situation of Africa as the foundation of a racialized worldwide African Diaspora. Tunde Adeleke attempts to fill an intellectual gap by analysing the contradictions in Afrocentric representations of the continent.

Though many scholars will acknowledge the Anglo-Saxon character of black American nationalism, few have dealt with the imperialistic ramifications of this connection. By exposing the imperialistic character of nineteenth-century black American nationalism, Adeleke reveals a deep historical and cultural divide between Africa and the black diaspora.