Robert Trent Vinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 120082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Trent Vinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Trent |
| FAMILY NAME | Vinson |
| SIGNATURE | VINSON R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mandela and MK: Situating South African history in the Black Radical Tradition
Up from Slavery and Down with Apartheid! African Americans and Black South Africans against the Global Color Line
Across the twentieth century, black South Africans often drew inspiration from African American progress. This transatlantic history informed the global antiapartheid struggle, animated by international human rights norms, of Martin Luther King Jr., his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner the South African leader Albert Luthuli, and the African American tennis star Arthur Ashe. While tracing the travels of African Americans and Africans “going South,…
Albert Luthuli's Private Struggle: How an Icon of Peace Came to Accept Sabotage in South Africa
In December 1961, Albert Luthuli, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), arrived in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists in Norway noted how apartheid crackdowns failed to poison the new laureate's ‘courteous’ commitment to nonviolence. The press never reported Luthuli's acceptance that saboteurs in an armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK or Spear of the Nation), would now fight for freedom. Analyzing recently available evidence…
Carol Anderson. Bourgeois Radicals: The Naacp and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960
In recent years, scholars Gerald Horne, Penny Von Eschen, and others have documented the rich history of progressive leftist African American anticolonial politics in the World War II era, particularly the Council on African Affairs (CAA) featuring the formidable W. E. B. Du Bois and the prominent entertainer/activist Paul Robeson. The venerable National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), esteemed for its U.S. domestic civ…
The Age of Garvey: How A Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics, by Adam Ewing
Most of the readers of this journal will know the remarkable story of the seemingly meteoric ascent of the Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey, who rose like a phoenix out of the ashes of World War I to le
Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974
"Recent work by Gerald Horne, Carol Anderson, Kevin Gaines, Penny Von Eschen, Thomas Borstelmann, and Mary Dudziak, among others, has placed the modern U.S. civil rights era in a Cold War global context. Over the course of her sterling career, particularly with works like Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960 (1996) and her edited collection Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988 (2003), B…
Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
Book Review| May 01 2011 Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South Andrew Zimmerman Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010 xii + 390 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Robert T. Vinson Robert T. Vinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (2): 175–177. https://do…
Zulus Abroad: Cultural Representations and Educational Experiences of Zulus in America, 1880-1945
This article broadens the study of cultural representations of the Zulu from within South Africa to the United States by exploring the experiences of Zulu performers and students in America between 1880 and 1945. In American exhibitions, carnivals, circuses and fairs, whites celebrated and re-enacted Anglo-Saxon military victories over darker-skinned peoples with stark contrasts of ‘civilised’ whites and subjugated ‘uncivilised’ Zulus. African Am…
Sea Kaffirs’: ‘American Negroes’ and the Gospel of Garveyism in Early Twentieth-Century Cape Town
This article demonstrates that black British West Indians and black South Africans in post-First World War Cape Town viewed ‘American Negroes’ as divinely ordained liberators from South African white supremacy. These South-African based Garveyites articulated a prophetic Garveyist Christianity that provided common ideological ground for Africans and diasporic blacks through leading black South African organizations like the Universal Negro Improv…
Citizenship Over Race: A frican A mericans in U.S.-S outh A frican D iplomacy , 1890–1925
This essay provides a unique view of American-South African diplomacy primarily through the case study of African-American missionaries, Herbert and Bessie Mae Payne and James and Lucinda East, who sought to proselytize in South Africa between 1910 and 1923. In doing so, this article responds to recent calls to embrace an interactive “homeland and diaspora” model that bridges the emergent historiography of the African diaspora with that of contin…
Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Poking Holes in the Sky: Professor James Thaele, American Negroes, and Modernity in 1920s Segregationist South Africa
In 1920s South Africa, white segregationists justified accelerated racially discriminatory legislation by casting blacks as “uncivilized primitive natives” undeserving of full citizenship rights. Africans often countered this discourse by pointing to African Americans as proof of black capacities to modernize and as role models worthy of emulating in antisegregationist activity. Black South African leaders often associated themselves with African…
Sea Kaffirs’: ‘American Negroes’ and the Gospel of Garveyism in Early Twentieth-Century Cape Town
This article demonstrates that black British West Indians and black South Africans in post-First World War Cape Town viewed ‘American Negroes’ as divinely ordained liberators from South African white supremacy. These South-African based Garveyites articulated a prophetic Garveyist Christianity that provided common ideological ground for Africans and diasporic blacks through leading black South African organizations like the Universal Negro Improv…
Poking Holes in the Sky: Professor James Thaele, American Negroes, and Modernity in 1920s Segregationist South Africa
In 1920s South Africa, white segregationists justified accelerated racially discriminatory legislation by casting blacks as “uncivilized primitive natives” undeserving of full citizenship rights. Africans often countered this discourse by pointing to African Americans as proof of black capacities to modernize and as role models worthy of emulating in antisegregationist activity. Black South African leaders often associated themselves with African…
Albert Luthuli's Private Struggle: How an Icon of Peace Came to Accept Sabotage in South Africa
In December 1961, Albert Luthuli, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), arrived in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists in Norway noted how apartheid crackdowns failed to poison the new laureate's ‘courteous’ commitment to nonviolence. The press never reported Luthuli's acceptance that saboteurs in an armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK or Spear of the Nation), would now fight for freedom. Analyzing recently available evidence…
Poking Holes in the Sky: Professor James Thaele, American Negroes, and Modernity in 1920s Segregationist South Africa
In 1920s South Africa, white segregationists justified accelerated racially discriminatory legislation by casting blacks as “uncivilized primitive natives” undeserving of full citizenship rights. Africans often countered this discourse by pointing to African Americans as proof of black capacities to modernize and as role models worthy of emulating in antisegregationist activity. Black South African leaders often associated themselves with African…
Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Citizenship Over Race: A frican A mericans in U.S.-S outh A frican D iplomacy , 1890–1925
This essay provides a unique view of American-South African diplomacy primarily through the case study of African-American missionaries, Herbert and Bessie Mae Payne and James and Lucinda East, who sought to proselytize in South Africa between 1910 and 1923. In doing so, this article responds to recent calls to embrace an interactive “homeland and diaspora” model that bridges the emergent historiography of the African diaspora with that of contin…
Sea Kaffirs’: ‘American Negroes’ and the Gospel of Garveyism in Early Twentieth-Century Cape Town
This article demonstrates that black British West Indians and black South Africans in post-First World War Cape Town viewed ‘American Negroes’ as divinely ordained liberators from South African white supremacy. These South-African based Garveyites articulated a prophetic Garveyist Christianity that provided common ideological ground for Africans and diasporic blacks through leading black South African organizations like the Universal Negro Improv…
Zulus Abroad: Cultural Representations and Educational Experiences of Zulus in America, 1880-1945
This article broadens the study of cultural representations of the Zulu from within South Africa to the United States by exploring the experiences of Zulu performers and students in America between 1880 and 1945. In American exhibitions, carnivals, circuses and fairs, whites celebrated and re-enacted Anglo-Saxon military victories over darker-skinned peoples with stark contrasts of ‘civilised’ whites and subjugated ‘uncivilised’ Zulus. African Am…
Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
Book Review| May 01 2011 Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South Andrew Zimmerman Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010 xii + 390 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Robert T. Vinson Robert T. Vinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (2): 175–177. https://do…
Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974
"Recent work by Gerald Horne, Carol Anderson, Kevin Gaines, Penny Von Eschen, Thomas Borstelmann, and Mary Dudziak, among others, has placed the modern U.S. civil rights era in a Cold War global context. Over the course of her sterling career, particularly with works like Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960 (1996) and her edited collection Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988 (2003), B…
Carol Anderson. Bourgeois Radicals: The Naacp and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960
In recent years, scholars Gerald Horne, Penny Von Eschen, and others have documented the rich history of progressive leftist African American anticolonial politics in the World War II era, particularly the Council on African Affairs (CAA) featuring the formidable W. E. B. Du Bois and the prominent entertainer/activist Paul Robeson. The venerable National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), esteemed for its U.S. domestic civ…
The Age of Garvey: How A Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics, by Adam Ewing
Most of the readers of this journal will know the remarkable story of the seemingly meteoric ascent of the Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey, who rose like a phoenix out of the ashes of World War I to le
Up from Slavery and Down with Apartheid! African Americans and Black South Africans against the Global Color Line
Across the twentieth century, black South Africans often drew inspiration from African American progress. This transatlantic history informed the global antiapartheid struggle, animated by international human rights norms, of Martin Luther King Jr., his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner the South African leader Albert Luthuli, and the African American tennis star Arthur Ashe. While tracing the travels of African Americans and Africans “going South,…
Albert Luthuli's Private Struggle: How an Icon of Peace Came to Accept Sabotage in South Africa
In December 1961, Albert Luthuli, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), arrived in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists in Norway noted how apartheid crackdowns failed to poison the new laureate's ‘courteous’ commitment to nonviolence. The press never reported Luthuli's acceptance that saboteurs in an armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK or Spear of the Nation), would now fight for freedom. Analyzing recently available evidence…
Mandela and MK: Situating South African history in the Black Radical Tradition
History (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works)