American Imperialism

ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS STEPS: 1.    Read Chapters 1-5 of Black Movements in America by Cedric Robinson (linked below) 2.    Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Something Torn and New by Ng?g? wa Thiong’o (linked below) 3.    Watch The Recorded Lectures  (linked below) 4.    Write a 3-5 page essay in response to the prompt below 5.    Your essay must include the following: –       2 in-text citations from Black Movements in America –       2 in-text citations from Something torn and New –       Your paper must be formatted using my template ( Abstract, Critical Review of Scholarship, Discussion, and Further Questions) *see more details about the sections of your paper below.  PROMPT:  How did Africans begin to conceptualize unity in thought and action beyond national boundaries in the face of European and American imperialism?   MORE INFO:   By the mid 19th century, Europeans and those of their former colonies controlled by Whites (e.g. the U.S., Brazil, et. al.) began to systematically dispossess Africans of natural resources (African colonialism) and reconfigure African labor from chattel slavery to debt peonage (Western Hemisphere) in a world system. Improved international communications networks, or what some scholars have called “The Practice of Diaspora,” enabled Africans to begin to see themselves as part of an oppositional African world, even as they struggled against local social, economic, political and cultural racial oppressions in their perspective sites of resistance.   LINKS: –       Black Movements In America file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Cedric%20Robinson%20-%20Black%20Movements%20in%20America-Routledge%20(1997).pdf    –       Something Torn and New https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/file%20uploads%20/ngugi_wa_thiongo_something_torn_and_new_an_afrbook4you.org_.pdf   –       LECTURES   –       HOW TO FORMAT YOUR PAPER file:///C:/Users/Owner/OneDrive/Documents/HowToFormatYourPaper.pdf