Worldwide Black Nationalism
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The struggle of black people for freedom and empowerment has taken place in different parts of the world, with the various, movements connected in their goals and often in underlying ideological commitments. The Black Power movement in the United States and the black consciousness movement in South Africa have similar roots in the drive for black nationalism extending back into the nineteenth century and are even more directly connected as influences on one another. Blacks in these widely different and distant countries developed a sense of unity as black people all struggling for the same basic goals of human dignity, freedom, and self-determination. An examination of the roots of these movements and of the beliefs, strategies, and goals of each will show how they were connected and how they influenced the development of the black struggle around the world. Black nationalism emerged in response to the desire to escape from the confines of the majority and racist society in the United States, and often the movement looked to Africa as the homeland of blacks and as a possible place where a new black society could be created, as was indeed attempted in Liberia. Black nationalism has been described as "the conglomeration of efforts of blacks to resolve problems of cultural identity and sociopolitical weakness as blacks" (Bush, 1984, p. 209). Black nationalism has a long history as a political movement, with varying impact at different points in black hi
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Once white administrative hegemony was secure, an even more powerful and long-standing common concern became paramount: the desire of virtually all whites, rural and urban, to acquire maximum service, at minimum cost, from African labor. . . . The result was a long series of legislative acts directed at pushing Africans off the land and into the employment of white, a pattern of white policy which persists to the present day and has profoundly affected the character of both urban and rural African society. (Gerhart, 1978, p. 22)
Just as American slavery often broke up black families for economic advantage, so did the South African white population prefer black workers who worked on short contracts for whites and how left their families behind in a rural reserve. Such a worker could be paid less and could also be accommodated in compounds or hostels in a way that prevented him from putting down firm roots in the white man's city (Gerhart, 1978, p. 23).
World War II accelerated a process of urbanization as many blacks came to the city with their families and took up residence in shanty towns. the primary focus of blacks at the time was survival. Many of these people had double roots, with one leg in the city an
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