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Title:Entangling alliance: Black Americans, Africa and capitalism
Author:Keita, Maghan
Year:1979
Periodical:Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907)
Volume:4
Issue:2-3
Pages:92-105
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:African Americans
middle class
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487172
Abstract:Any analysis of African-American relations with Africa must consider the capitalist dominated historical framework in which those relations occur. Failure to do so leads to the incorrect view that racism is the oppressing force. With slavery as the basis for a distinctive psychology whose objective and material circumstance was rooted in capitalism, the structure for Black American support of things American, including foreign policy, was developed. Even where Black aspiration of the American dream rejected American dominance, it accepted the capitalist model. In examining the African-American petite bourgeoisie which arose, one must look at the relationship of this petite bourgeoisie to the national American petite bourgeoisie, to the American black under-class, and to the international petite bourgeoisie. The African-American, as the Kenyan, Nigerian, and South African black, have emerged at the foremost among an international black petite bourgeois strata. As such their role is the management of Africa and the Diaspora on behalf of world capitalism. To the extent they discharge their class interests, they become enemies of the liberation of Southern Africa. Notes, French sum.
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