ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its continued significance in the 21st century.
The handbook features expert introductions to, and critical explorations of, the most important historic and current subjects, theories, and controversies of Pan-Africanism and the evolution of black internationalism. Pan-Africanism is explored and critically engaged from different disciplinary points of view, emphasizing the multiplicity of perspectives and foregrounding an intersectional approach. The contributors provide erudite discussions of black internationalism, black feminism, African feminism, and queer Pan-Africanism alongside surveys of black nationalism, black consciousness, and Caribbean Pan-Africanism. Chapters on neo-colonialism, decolonization, and Africanization give way to chapters on African social movements, the African Union, and the African Renaissance. Pan-African aesthetics are probed via literature and music, illustrating the black internationalist impulse in myriad continental and diasporan artists’ work.
Including 36 chapters by acclaimed established and emerging scholars, the handbook is organized into seven parts, each centered around a comprehensive theme:
- Intellectual origins, historical evolution, and radical politics of Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Africanist theories
- Pan-Africanism in the African diaspora
- Pan-Africanism in Africa
- Literary Pan-Africanism
- Musical Pan-Africanism
- The contemporary and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century
The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism is an indispensable source for scholars and students with research interests in continental and diasporan African history, sociology, politics, economics, and aesthetics. It will also be a very valuable resource for those working in interdisciplinary fields, such as African studies, African American studies, Caribbean studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies, and queer studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |32 pages
Introduction
part I|54 pages
Intellectual origins, historical evolution, and radical politics of Pan-Africanism
part II|98 pages
Pan-Africanist theories
part III|86 pages
Pan-Africanism in the African Diaspora
chapter 17|13 pages
“Long Live African Women Wherever They Are!”
part IV|114 pages
Pan-Africanism in Africa
chapter 18|16 pages
Pan-Africanist in the court
chapter 20|15 pages
Amilcar Cabral, Cabralism, and Pan-Africanism
part V|77 pages
Literary Pan-Africanism
chapter 27|17 pages
Literary Pan-Africanism in African epics
chapter 29|16 pages
“… Black People, come in, wherever you are …”
chapter 30|13 pages
Maya Angelou’s Afrocentric journalism
part VI|52 pages
Musical Pan-Africanism
part VII|21 pages
The contemporary and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century