Blackamerica's Challenge to European Colonialism The Waller Affair, 1891-1895
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7841759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randall Bennett Woods (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-77 |
| Publication date | 1976-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002193477600700105 |
| OpenAlex | W2094684195 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
At the close of the nineteenth century, Africa was the scene of an intense Anglo-French colonial rivalry. Nowhere was this competition keener than in the East African island of Madagascar. While Christian missionaries vied for control of the Malagasy's souls and English and French merchants strove to exploit the island's economic resources, the Quai d'Orsay and Whitehall fought for political influence over the native monarchy. France ultimately emerged triumphant and annexed Madagascar in 1896. In doing so, however, Paris was responding to pressure from a third source represented by a Blackamerican whose interest in Madagascar was only incidentally connected with that of Britain. Confronted by a rising tide of institutionalized racism at home, a substantial segment of the Negro community in the United States looked to Africa as well as to other nonwhite, underdeveloped areas as havens from prejudice and exploitation, and also as legitimate fields of economic endeavor. The Parsons Weekly Blade, one of a number of Afro-American newspapers obsessed in the 1 890s with the idea that racial equality could be achieved through black capitalism, came out in 1895 for annexation of both Cuba and Hawaii: We want these and
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| Highly cited | No |