Against the Grain: The "New Negro" vis-à-vis Africa

Davarian Baldwin, editor of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, joins the program.

baldwin_escape coverThe ideas of W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Booker T. Washington may have differed, but each made key contributions to the pan-Africanist project. Jeannette Eileen Jones describes how these thinkers and others viewed Africa, and what role they saw blacks in the West playing in Africa's liberation and advancement. Also, Davarian Baldwin discusses the volume in which Jones's essay appears.

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Published in: Against the Grain