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Emancipation Without Equality: Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line

Emancipation Without Equality: Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line

Smith, Thomas E.

Paperback

Series: African American Intellectual History

Black American StudiesGeneral World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1625343957
ISBN13: 9781625343956
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: Sep 25 2018
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

At the Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be the global color line, the elevation of whiteness that created a racially divided world. While Pan-Africanism recognized the global nature of the color line in this period, Thomas E. Smith argues that it also pushed against it, advocating for what Du Bois called opportunities and privileges of modern civilization to open up to people of all colors.

Covering a period roughly bookended by two international forums, the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference and the 1911 Universal Races Congress, Emancipation without Equality chronicles how activists of African descent fought globally for equal treatment and access to rights associated with post-emancipated citizenship. While Euro-American leaders created a standard to guide the course of imperialism at the Berlin Conference, the proceedings of the Universal Races Congress demonstrated that Pan-Africanism had become a visible part of a growing, global, anti-imperialist protest.

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