Up from Slavery and Down with Apartheid! African Americans and Black South Africans against the Global Color Line
- 4 May 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of American Studies
- Vol. 52 (2), 297-329
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817001943
Abstract
Across the twentieth century, black South Africans often drew inspiration from African American progress. This transatlantic history informed the global antiapartheid struggle, animated by international human rights norms, of Martin Luther King Jr., his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner the South African leader Albert Luthuli, and the African American tennis star Arthur Ashe. While tracing the travels of African Americans and Africans “going South,” this article centers Africa and Africans, thereby redressing gaps in black Atlantic and African diaspora scholarship.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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