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"The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's study reveals the untold story of how free and enslaved Black people in the United States defended the young Caribbean nation from forces intent on maintaining slavery and white supremacy. Concentrating on Haiti's place in the history of Black internationalism, Alexander illuminates the ways Haitian independence influenced Black thought and action in the United States. As she shows, Haiti embodied what whites feared most: Black revolution and Black victory. Thus inspired, Black activists in the United States embraced a common identity with Haiti's people, forging the idea of a united struggle that merged the destinies of Haiti with their own striving for freedom. A bold exploration of Black internationalism's origins, Fear of a Black Republic links the Haitian revolution to the global Black pursuit of liberation, justice, and social equality"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- I History and Context of African American Studies -- 2 Danny Glover: Memories from 1968 -- 3 Pedagogy and Decolonization: Historical Refl ections on Origins of Black Studies in the United States -- 4 Toward Radical Pan-African Pedagogy and Civic Education -- 5 The "Field and Function" of Africana Studies: Insights from the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois -- II African American Studies: Theories and Methodologies -- 6 African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms -- 7 Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline -- 8 Revisiting White Privilege: Pedagogy in Black Studies -- 9 Social Science Research in Africana Studies: Ethical Protocols and Guidelines -- 10 Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment -- III Social Responsibility, Service Learning and Activism -- 11 Africana Studies and Community Service: Using the STRENGTH Model -- 12 Africana Studies and Civic Engagement -- 13 Danny Glover and Manning Marable: Activism Through Art and Scholarship -- 14 Contemporary Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Artistic Expression and Activism -- IV Selected Areas of Scholarship in the Discipline -- 15 He Wasn't Man Enough: Black Male Studies and the Ethnological Targeting of Black Men in Nineteenth-Century Suffragist Thought -- 16 Reading Black Through the Looking Glass: Decoding the Encoding in African Diasporic Literature -- 17 Diversity and Representations of Blackness in Comic Books -- 18 Black Athletes and the Problematic of Integration in Sport -- 19 African American Music: The Ties That Bind -- 20 Afrofuturism and the Question of Visual Reparations -- 21 The Black Studies Movement in Britain -- Index