Painter (2007) showed that African Americans thinking about Africa has changed over the course of four centuries, according to personal acquaintance, international power relationships, and the availability of knowledge. In the seventeenth century, many black people in what would become the United States had been born in Africa or at least had African parents (p. 18). Black womens national club movement rose out of African cultural tradition that stressed collective concern and responsibility for family. The Daughters of Africa was formed in 1821 as one of the earliest female societies (Karenga, 2010, p. 135).
There were also no changes in European political thinking about the colonies. At least in part, reflecting shifts in European domestic politics. The experience of the war itself had, in a broad sense, made mainstream governments more socially conscious and politically sensitive. In Britain, for example, the Labor government of Clement Attlee represented a rejection of many of the social and political values of the 1920s and 30s. Its view of the empire in certain important ways, was not that of prewar governments. Nonetheless, changes in thinking about the colonies had their roots and the depression years of the 1930s. To some extent, the socioeconomic traumas of that decade. Had forced a reassessment of the nature of colonial rule (Reid, 2020, p. 270). Yet what did decolonization actually mean in London and Paris? Those involved in planning in the late 1940s were in little doubt that former colonies would remain under broad metropolitan influence. The idea of some final severing of ties was unthinkable for both European and African (p. 271).
References
Painter, N. (2007). Creating Black Americans: African-American History and its Meaning, 1619 to the Present. New York: Oxford.
Karenga, M. (2010). Introduction to Black Studies (4th ed). Los Angeles: Sankore Press.
Reid, R. J. (2020). A History of Modern Africa: 1800 the present (3rd ed.). New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell.
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Title: Creating Black Americans Author: Nell Irvin Painter Publisher: Oxford University Press
QUESTION:-Discuss an Example of the work of a Harlem Renaissance writer, musician or visual artist.
It must be a minimum of 275 words and Remember to use evidence from the text, including page numbers to support your responses for full credit.
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