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Author Horne, Gerald, author.

Title Mau Mau in Harlem? : the U.S. and the liberation of Kenya / Gerald Horne
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Black history
Contemporary Black history.
Contents Into Africa -- A British colony? -- A dangerous neighborhood -- Catastrophe looms -- Race war? -- Colonialism confronted -- Mau Mau looms -- State of emergency 20 -- "Mau Mau" -- The U.S. Arms the settlers? -- "Mau Mau"?to Little Rock -- Labor will rule? -- Working class hero? -- A new frontier? In Africa? -- Colonialism retreating? -- Liberation looms -- Mau Mau in Harlem
Summary Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject National liberation movements -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
Racism -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
African Americans
African Americans -- Attitudes
Military participation -- African American
National liberation movements
Racism
International relations
Außenpolitik
Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
Mau-Mau
SUBJECT Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Participation, African American
United States -- Relations -- Kenya
Kenya -- Relations -- United States
Subject Kenya
United States
Kenia
USA
USA -- Kenya -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Kenya -- USA -- Kenya -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230101043
0230101046
9781349379354
1349379352