Modern Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa - 9780367343125

Taylor & Francis

1. Introduction: From Tarzan to the Black Panther: The Evolving Image of Africa Part 1: Representing Sub-Saharan Africa before its Decolonization 2. African Liberation and the Reaction of the British Establishment 3. Viewing Apartheid through an American Lens: The American Foreign Policy Elite Examine Racial Politics in South Africa Part 2: Representing Sub-Saharan Africa in the Age of Decolonization and Independence 4. Othering Blacks into Africans in Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-9): A Post-colonial Regime of Truth 5. \u2018God\u2019s Work\u2019: Explaining the Intervention in Somalia to the American Public (1992-1993) 6. Remembering Rwanda in the American television Series The West Wing and 24 Part 3: Representing Sub-Saharan Africa in Academic Disciplines 7. From the Cradle of Civilization to Basket Case: (Mis)representations of Africa in Western Scholarship 8. Maps: \u2018A Mine of Suggestion\u2019 or Just \u2018a Sham\u2019? Part 4: Representing Sub-Saharan Africn