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Why Blacks Left America for Africa: Interviews with Black Repatriates, 1971-1999
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by Robert Johnson

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Why do Black Americans go to Africa? How do they react to their ancestral motherland? Why do some return to the States and others remain? Obviously each has an individual story, but in these in-depth interviews, Professor Robert Johnson gives voice to many of their reasons and responses.

The interviews speak to the essential question of Black Americans and their links--emotional, spiritual, and even physical--to Africa, or the lack thereof. After an introductory survey of efforts from the 18th century onward to relocate back to Africa, Johnson presents the interviews conducted from the early 1970s and onward. The voices are both male and female, and the reactions cover a range of responses, all of which makes this compelling reading for students and researchers of cultural diversity, Black studies, American studies, ethnic studies, and African studies.

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On August 10, 1971, approximately twenty African-Americans and twenty African students met to discuss the "problems" that existed between the two groups.

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  • Title Why Blacks Left America for Africa: Interviews with Black Repatriates, 1971-1999
  • Author Robert Johnson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger
  • Publication date 1999-09-30
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780275965952 / 0275965953
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.42 x 0.82 in (24.28 x 16.31 x 2.08 cm)
  • Reading level 1000
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Emigration and immigration, African Americans - Africa, East
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-56072
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.836

About the author

ROBERT JOHNSON, JR. is a published playwright, attorney, and professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He is the author of numerous plays, has published widely in journals, and is the author of Race, Law and Public Policy.
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