Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Paris, Peter J.

Titel

Katie Cannon's Encounter with Africa

Ist Teil von

• Journal of feminist studies in religion, 2019-03, Vol.35 (1), p.121-123

Ort / Verlag

Atlanta: Indiana University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Paris talks about Katie Cannon as Pan-Africanist. Cannon's cross-cultural experience began with her birth as the fourth child in a black family in Kannapolis NC, a racially segregated community surrounded by a hostile, white, racist society. In the 1950s, the Reverend James Robinson, an African American Presbyterian minister who founded the Church of the Master in Harlem, launched what he called "Operation Crossroads Africa" with the mission of sending interracial teams of young American men and women to Africa for volunteer work and cultural interaction. Cannon joined the group in 1971 after receiving a BA in education, magna cum laude, from Barber Scotia College. While it is easy for African Americans to romanticize about such an experience, Cannon described a rude awakening when her group arrived in Cote d'Ivoire on their return route and heard very critical comments from African students about the US and the danger of its power to manipulate the newly emerging vulnerable African nations.