| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940. By Ibrahim Sundiata. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 442 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN 0-8223-3233-7. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-3247-7.)

This book is about the power and pitfalls of myths and perception. Ibrahim Sundiata is primarily concerned about how Africa and Africans—as both realities and imaginings—were employed by African Americans and others to defend, deny, and manipulate the idea that a united, global black folk community exists in tandem with and in opposition to worldwide currents of white supremacy and imperialism. At center stage of this study is the country of Liberia, a diminutive colony-turned-republic on the West African coast that encapsulated the hopes and aspirations of many diasporic blacks, as well as their fears and illusions. Sundiata characterizes his work as a cautionary tale, which does more than just lay bare the irony of African Americans defending Liberian independence, as the settler elite there lorded its privilege over the much larger African population.

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