Engel Encountering Empire

African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900–1939
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-515-11119-5
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Deutsch, 303 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Transatlantische Historische Studien.

In Encountering Empire, Elisabeth Engel traces how black American missionaries – men and women grappling with their African heritage – established connections in Africa during the heyday of European colonialism. Reconstructing the black American 'colonial encounter,' Engel analyzes the images, transatlantic relationships, and possibilities of representation African American missionaries developed for themselves while negotiating colonial regimes. Between 1900 and 1939, these missionaries paved the way for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest independent black American institution, to establish a presence in Britain's sub-Saharan colonies. Illuminating a neglected chapter of Atlantic history, Engel demonstrates that African Americans used imperial structures for their own self-determination. Encountering Empire thus challenges the notion that pan-Africanism was the only viable strategy for black emancipation.

Winner of the Franz Steiner Prize in Transatlantic History 2015.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engel, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholische Kirchen in Lateinamerika, Afrika, Indien und Asien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Acknowledgments;10
3;List of Abbreviations;14
4;List of Illustrations;15
5;1. Introduction;18
5.1;1.1. Encountering Empire: An African American History;18
5.2;1.2. Perspectives on the Afro-colonial Contact Zone: Christian Missions, African American Transnationalism, and Colonial Africa;27
5.3;1.3. Reconceiving African American (Anti)colonialism: Method, Sources, and Structure;41
6;Part I. Encountering Colonial Africa: African American Missionaries and the ‘Dark Continent’;52
6.1;2. What’s in a Name: The AME Church and Missions to Africa;58
6.1.1;2.1. The Church of Allen and African Methodism;58
6.1.2;2.2. Missionary Traditions in the United States;62
6.1.3;2.3. Missionary Traditions in the AME Church;65
6.1.4;2.4. The Formation of AME Missionary Structures;67
6.2;3. Moving onto the Imperial Stage: Colonial Africa and the Self-fashioning of African American Missionaries;73
6.2.1;3.1. The Pioneers of Black Autoethnography;73
6.2.2;3.2. “But to See Africa in Africa Is Another Thing”: Empiricism and Introspection on the Colonial Frontier;81
6.2.3;3.3. “Views Fortified by Experience”: Passing on the System of Confession;95
6.3;4. African American Missionaries at Home: Colonial Africa and the Black Metropole;103
6.3.1;4.1. African American Missionaries at Home;103
6.3.2;4.2. Manifest Black Male Domesticity: Institutional Reconfigurations;115
6.3.3;4.3. Managing Black Atlantic Missionary Connections at Home: The AME Church Missionary Department;123
6.3.4;4.4. Coming Home to Harlem: The New Home of Missions in the Black American Community;129
7;Part II. Encountering the World: The ‘American Negro’ and the Ecumenical Missionary Movement;140
7.1;5. “For the Field Is the World”: The Formation of the Ecumenical Missionary Movement;147
7.1.1;5.1. The Theory and Practice of Ecumenism;147
7.1.2;5.2. The IMC, Indigenization, and the Race Problem;152
7.2;6. Moving onto the Ecumenical Stage: The AME Church and Ecumenism;160
7.2.1;6.1. “A United Front”: The Formation of Black Ecumenism;160
7.2.2;6.2. “God’s Last Reserve”: The AME Church’s Ecumenical Self-representation;165
7.2.3;6.3. The AME Church’s Ecumenical Africa Mission and the IMC;170
7.3;7. The ‘American Negro’ and Africa: Blackening the South Atlantic;175
7.3.1;7.1. Indigenizing Black Christianity in the South Atlantic;175
7.3.2;7.2. The Search for Alternative Paths to Civilization: Black and White Missionaries View the ‘American Negro’;180
7.3.3;7.3. Paving the Way to Colonial Africa: The ‘American Negro’ Missionary, the IMC, and the British Empire;184
8;Part III. Encountering the Colonial Subject: African American Missionaries and the ‘Natives’;192
8.1;8. Meeting the ‘Native’: Black Missionary Self-fashioning in Colonial Everyday Life;198
8.1.1;8.1. The Native Question in Indirect-rule Africa;198
8.1.2;8.2. The AME Church and the Native Question;201
8.1.3;8.3. Moving into Empire: The Construction of the Nonnative Black Missionary;203
8.1.4;8.4. Of ‘Natives’’ Sisters and Brothers: AME Missionaries and the ‘American Negro’;217
8.2;9. Moving into the Colonial System: AME Institutions in Colonial Africa;230
8.2.1;9.1. The African AME Church;230
8.2.2;9.2. The Postwar Debate About New Africa;235
8.2.3;9.3. Gaining Ground: The ‘Native’ Worker and Colonial Education in Sierra Leone;243
8.2.4;9.4. The Outlook of the Afro-colonial Liaison;257
8.3;10. Afro-colonial Encounters: An Entangled History of African Colonization and African American Emancipation;263
8.3.1;10.1. Pan-Africanism, the Absence of Empire, and the Silencing of Africa;263
8.3.2;10.2. The AME Church and Postcolonial Africa;268
8.3.3;10.3. Beginning African American Postcoloniality;272
9;11. Works Cited;276
10;Index;298