| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James H. Meriwether. Proudly We Can be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935–1961. (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 336. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

The American image of, and relationship with, Africa has attracted increasing critical attention during the past decade. In particular, the deepening African-American engagement with the "mother continent" (and the wider colonial landscape) in the crucible and aftermath of World War II has been the subject of a number of notable works, including Brenda Gayle Plummer's Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960 (1996) and Penny Von Eschen's Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957 (1997). James H. Meriwether has carried this enterprise a step further with a work that endeavors—and largely succeeds—in doing full justice to the richness and diversity of African-American opinion during that crucial period encompassing the civil rights struggle at home and decolonization and "national liberation" abroad. . . .

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