| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961. By James H. Meriwether. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2669-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4997-9.)

In black America, to be called an African used to be a serious insult. James H. Meriwether's new book, Proudly We Can Be Africans, traces how Africa became a site of pride rather than shame for many black Americans in the period from 1935 to 1961. Black Americans, many of whom held derogatory views of Africans as savage well into the twentieth century, had long believed that they had a duty to uplift and civilize Africa. But, as African nations struggled against colonialism and eventually gained independence in the 1950s and 1960s, many black Americans began to take pride in contemporary Africa and realized that Africans had much to teach them about the struggle against white supremacy. . . .

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