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Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
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On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans' best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries that encompassed a large portion of the South--
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Paperback, 304 pages
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June 29th 2020
by University of North Carolina Press
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This book details the history of one of the most impactful yet not widely discussed movements of the Black Power era (and beyond): the New Afrikan Independence Movement. More specifically, author Edward Onaci depicts the rise, ideology, trials, and overall evolution of the Republic of New Afrika. Adherents to the movement for New Afrikan independence--following the blueprint set by Malcolm X and Queen Mother Moore (and others)--identified national independence and land ownership as the central s
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“Sociologists Doug McAdam, Nella Van Dyke, and Brenda Wilhelm, among others, have argued that participation in the social movements of the 1960s caused activists to question and critique the ways that societal norms governed their personal lives.”
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“By calling themselves “captive,” New Afrikans were indicating that they were members of an internal colony that, like colonized nations elsewhere, had the right to self-determination.”
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