The Race for America
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The Race for America

Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny

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The Race for America

Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny

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As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intellectuals like Daniel Peterson, James McCune Smith, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Bibb, and Martin Delany engaged this cultural mythology to theorize and practice Black internationalism. He uncovers how their strategies for challenging Manifest Destiny's white nationalist ideology and expansionist political agenda constituted a form of disidentification—a deconstructing and reassembling of this discourse that marshals Black experiences as racialized subjects to imagine novel geopolitical mythologies and projects to compete with Manifest Destiny. Employing Black internationalist, hemispheric, and diasporic frameworks to examine the emigrationist and solidarity projects that African Americans proposed as alternatives to Manifest Destiny, Boutelle attends to sites integral to US aspirations of hemispheric dominion: Liberia, Nicaragua, Canada, and Cuba. In doing so, Boutelle offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781469676647
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
African American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures and Table
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One. Self-Fashioning Citizenship in the Colonizationist Renaissance
  9. Chapter Two. Ethnology, Empire, and a Central American Communipaw
  10. Chapter Three. Restaging Gender in the Black Borderlands of Canada West
  11. Chapter Four. Diaspora Literacy and the “Africanization” of Cuba
  12. Coda: From Manifest Destiny to MAGA
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index