The Race for America

As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intell...

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Egile nagusia:	Boutelle, R. J.
Formatua:	Online
Hizkuntza:	ingelesa
Argitaratua:	The University of North Carolina Press 2026
Gaiak:	Martin R. Delany James McCune Smith Daniel H. Peterson Mary Ann Shadd Cary Colored Conventions Movement 19th-century Black Internationalism 19th-century Black Nationalism 19th-cenutry Black Intellectual History 19th-century US Imperialism 19th-century US Expansionism 19th-century Black Literature 19th-century Black Emigration 19th-century Black Newspapers in the US 19th-century Black Newspapers in Canada 19th-century Slave Narratives 19th-century Colonization Movement Manifest Destiny Monroe Doctrine African Diaspora African Diaspora in 19th-century US 19th-century Hemispheric Studies 19th-Century Black Transnationalism James M. Whitfield Henry Highland Garnet Alexander Crummell Race in 19th-century Liberia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
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Gaia:	As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intellectuals like Daniel Peterson, James McCune Smith, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Bibb, and Martin Delany engaged this cultural mythology to theorize and practice Black internationalism. He uncovers how their strategies for challenging Manifest Destiny’s white nationalist ideology and expansionist political agenda constituted a form of disidentification—a deconstructing and reassembling of this discourse that marshals Black experiences as racialized subjects to imagine novel geopolitical mythologies and projects to compete with Manifest Destiny. Employing Black internationalist, hemispheric, and diasporic frameworks to examine the emigrationist and solidarity projects that African Americans proposed as alternatives to Manifest Destiny, Boutelle attends to sites integral to US aspirations of hemispheric dominion: Liberia, Nicaragua, Canada, and Cuba. In doing so, Boutelle offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.

The Race for America

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