TY - BOOK ID - 78648372 TI - Emancipation without equality PY - 2018 SN - 1613766424 9781613766439 1613766432 9781613766422 9781625343956 9781625343949 1625343949 PB - Amherst DB - UniCat KW - Race relations. KW - Pan-Africanism KW - Integration, Racial KW - Race problems KW - Race question KW - Relations, Race KW - Ethnology KW - Social problems KW - Sociology KW - Ethnic relations KW - Minorities KW - Racism KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78648372 AB - "At the Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be the global color line, the elevation of "whiteness" that created a racially divided world. While Pan-Africanism recognized the global nature of the color line in this period, Thomas E. Smith argues that it also pushed against it, advocating for what Du Bois called "opportunities and privileges of modern civilization" to open up to people of all colors. Covering a period roughly bookended by two international forums, the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference and the 1911 Universal Races Congress, Emancipation without Equality chronicles how activists of African descent fought globally for equal treatment and access to rights associated with post-emancipated citizenship. While Euro-American leaders created a standard to guide the course of imperialism at the Berlin Conference, the proceedings of the Universal Races Congress demonstrated that Pan-Africanism had become a visible part of a growing, global, anti-imperialist protest"-- ER -