Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

by Teshale Tibebu, Tibebu Teshale, Professor Tibebu Teshale

Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden's powerful black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans to "uplift" Africa; yet he was a defender of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464289
• ISBN13: 9781580464284
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"