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Title Trustee for the human community : Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the decolonization of Africa / edited by Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller.

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]
2010

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
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Note "This is a project of the UCLA Globalization Research Center--Africa"--title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ralph Bunche : African American intellectual / Martin Kilson -- Ralph Bunche and the dawn of Africanist scholarship / David Anthony -- The making of an Africanist : Ralph Bunche in South Africa, 1937 / Robert Edgar -- Ralph Bunche and the decolonization of African studies : the paradox of power, morality, and scholarship / Elliott P. Skinner -- Ralph Bunche the Africanist : revisiting paradigms lost / Pearl T. Robinson -- Decolonization through trusteeship : the legacy of Ralph Bunche / Neta C. Crawford -- An unexpected challenge : Ralph Bunche as field commander in the Congo, 1960 / John Olver -- Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba : the fatal encounter / Crawford Young -- Ralph Bunche, Patrice Lumumba, and the first Congo crisis / Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja -- Africa in the global decolonization process : the road to postcoloniality / Ralph A. Austen -- Epilogue / Charles P. Henry.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971.
United Nations -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Decolonization -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
Africanists -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Africa -- History -- 1884-1960.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hill, Robert A., 1943- editor.
Keller, Edmond J. (Edmond Joseph), 1942- editor.
UCLA Globalization Research Center--Africa, issuing body.
Other Form: Print version: Trustee for the human community : Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the decolonization of Africa. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010] xxii, 205 pages ; 23 cm 9780821419090 (OCoLC)ocn471810707 (DLC)10904200
ISBN 9780821419090 (hc : alk. paper)
0821419099 (hc : alk. paper)
9780821419106 (pb : alk. paper)
0821419102 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821443446 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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