Emancipation without Equality: Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line

by Thomas E. Smith

At the Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be the global color line, the elevation of "whiteness" that created a racially divided world. While Pan-Africanism recognized the global nature of the color line in this period, Thomas E. Smith argues that it also pushed against it, advocating for what Du Bois called "opportunities and privileges of modern civilization"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343957
• ISBN13: 9781625343956
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"