African Eldorado
Author | : John Carmichael |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Carmichael |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence B. de Graaf |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295805315 |
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
Author | : Raymond E. Dumett |
Publisher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821411988 |
Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier," which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
Author | : Thomas Alexander Barns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Congo (Democratic Republic) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Terry H. Elkiss |
Publisher | : Cross Roads Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Priscilla M. Shilaro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This work explores Britain's attempt to take land from the Bantu-Luyia peoples of Western Kenya for gold mining following the discovery of gold in the North Kavirondo (NK) reserve in 1931. The discovery led to the Kenyan gold rush, in which local European settler farmers and mining prospectors converged on Kakamega. The presence of mining prospectors in Western Kenya and the move to transform a rural agrarian terrain into an industrial one had important economic, political, socio-cultural, medical, and environmental ramifications for the inhabitants. This book illuminates the struggles of mine workers and dispossessed African households by looking at their actions and reactions toward the emerging British colonial venture of the region. Fundamentally, this work captures the largely undocumented histories of 'the common people' who lived through Kenya's failed eldorado.
Author | : John Coleman De Graft-Johnson |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780933121034 |
First published in 1954, a time when few books on African history were written from an African perspective. An intimate history of Africa and its ancient civilizations, the book opposed the stereotyped and often racist histories of Africa. Today, a half century after its initial publication, African Glory still provides a vivid and dynamic connection to the African past.
Author | : Donald Goines |
Publisher | : Holloway House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780870679964 |
"Tragic revenge is the theme when a crime kingpin is betrayed by his own son."--Cover.
Author | : Terry Howard Elkiss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Mozambique |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth MacGonagle |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781580462570 |
Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period.