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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Naming -- Reflecting on 20 Years of Imagining Africa -- A Brief Introduction to Sources -- Reimagining Africa -- 1 Traveling Images and How Americans Learned to Care for Africa -- Traveling at the Millennium -- Social Media and the Commodification of Caring -- Voluntourism -- American Encounters with Africa -- Change and Continuities 1999-2022 -- Making/Sharing Images -- Learning/Curating Care -- Seeing American/Seeing Race -- The Whiteness of It All -- Femininity, Consumption and Caring -- How To Become a White Savior -- Lesson 1 - Love Africa -- Lesson 2 - Love America -- Lesson 3 - Save Africa -- The Caring White Women Shopper -- 2 The Barbie Paradox - How Parody Is Trying to Save Africa -- Celebrity Saviors -- Seeing the Problem -- Earnest Responses -- Satirical Challenges -- When Agencies Parody Agencies -- Caring White Woman Shopping -- When Africans Enter -- Parody's Limits -- Colonial/Postcolonial Entanglements -- The Activist -- Whiteness Winning -- 3 Becoming American in Wakanda or Black is Queen -- Black Panther -- The Film and Its Comic Book Inspiration -- Zamunda -- The White Man's Burden -- Coming From 'Africa Is a Country' -- Beyoncé - African Goddess -- The Gift -- Black is King -- African Artists/African Worlds -- Imaging African Futures/Pasts -- Un/Real Africa -- Saving America -- Unbearable Whiteness -- Belonging in America -- Conclusion -- Index.

Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important to Americans? These travel stories show how encounters with Africans lead to a problematic desire to save Africa. Kathryn Mathers argues that this is then seen as a way to resolve the tensions between aspirations for a globally responsible America and the current reality of its geopolitical role. This book draws fascinating new conclusions about the connections and disconnections on which contemporary American identity is formed.