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DESCRIPTION:More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadi
 ans to Liberia. In 1865\, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipati
 on Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberi
 a as a means of achieving their post-emancipation goals and promoting a pan
 -Africanist agenda while simultaneously fulfilling their 'civilizing' and '
 Christianizing' duties. Through a close examination of the Afro-Barbadians\
 , Caree A. Banton provides a transatlantic approach to understanding the po
 litical and sociocultural consequences of their migration and settlement in
  Africa. Banton reveals how\, as former British subjects\, Afro-Barbadians 
 navigated an inherent tension between ideas of pan-Africanism and colonial 
 superiority. Upon their arrival in Liberia\, an English imperial identity d
 istinguished the Barbadians from African Americans and secured them privile
 ges in the Republic's hierarchy above the other group. By fracturing assump
 tions of a homogeneous black identity\, Banton ultimately demonstrates how 
 Afro-Barbadian settlement in Liberia influenced ideas of blackness in the A
 tlantic World.\n\n \n\nCaree Banton is an Associate Professor of African Di
 aspora History and the Director of the African and African American Studies
  Program at the University of Arkansas. Banton earned a BPA in Public Admin
 istration and BA in History from Grambling State University in 2005. She re
 ceived a MA in Development Studies from the University of Ghana in July 201
 2 and completed her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University in June 2013. Her resear
 ch focuses on movements towards freedom\, particularly around abolition\, e
 mancipation\, and colonization.\nMuch of her work also explores ideas of ci
 tizenship\, nationhood\, and race in the 19th century. Her research has bee
 n supported by a number of fellowships\, including the Rotary Ambassadorial
  Scholarship\, the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation Fellowship\, the Lapidus Cen
 ter Fellowship at the Schomburg Center\, and the Nancy Weiss Malkiel Fellow
 ship.
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LOCATION:160 Mann Library
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SUMMARY:Barbadian Emigration to Liberia: Transnational Blackness in the Mak
 ing of an African Nation
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