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African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy cannot be told without accounting for fears of an African World. In the early 1900s, Marcus Garvey and his followers perceived the North American mainland, particularly Canada following U.S. authorities' deportation of Garvey to Jamaica, as a forward-operating base from which to liberate the Black masses from colonialism. After World War II, Vietnam War resisters, Black Panthers, and Caribbean students joined the throngs of cross-border migrants to denounce militarism, imperialism, and capitalism. In time, as urban uprisings proliferated in northern U.S. cities, the prospect of coalitions among the Black Power, Red Power, and Quebecois Power movements inspired U.S. and Canadian intelligence services to collaborate, infiltrate, and sabotage Black organizations across North America. Assassinations of "Black messiahs" further radicalized revolutionaries, rekindling the dream for an African World from Washington, D.C., to Toronto to San Francisco to Antigua to Grenada and back to Africa. Alarmed, Washington's national security elites invoked the Cold War as the reason to counter the triangulation of Black Power in the Atlantic World, funneling arms clandestinely from the United States and Canada to the Caribbean and then to its proxies in southern Africa.

By contending that twentieth-century global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles,聽Cross-Border Cosmopolitans聽reveals the revolutionary legacies of the Underground Railroad and America's Great Migration and the hemispheric and transatlantic dimensions of this history.

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey is an assistant professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at 香蕉视频, where he holds the William Dawson Chair.

Currently, Dr. Adjetey is working on two book projects: one focused on warfare and African-led abolitionism along the Gulf of Guinea Coast, and another examining revolutionary Black organizing and state repression in the United States and the Americas. Committed to both teaching and research, he has received 香蕉视频's H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching. His undergraduate courses and seminars explore topics in U.S., African American, African Canadian, African Diaspora, and global history.

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

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Percival Leonard Everett II is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Known for his "pathologically ironic" approach, Everett has experimented with a wide range of genres, including westerns, mysteries, thrillers, satire, and philosophical fiction. His works often use satire to delve into issues of race and identity in the United States.

Everett is perhaps best known for his novels Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. James, also a Booker Prize finalist, went on to win both the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.