UnAfrican Americans: nineteenth-century Black nationalists and the civilizing mission

1. The cultural context of black nationalism: racist ideology and the civilizing mission.

2. The historical context of black nationalism: the quest for American nationality.

3. Martin Robison Delany: the economic and cultural contexts of imperialism.

4. Alexander Crummell: religious, moral, and cultural legitimation of imperialism.

5. Henry McNeal Turner: the cultural imperative of imperialism.

6. Black American nationalism and Africa: ambivalence and paradoxes.