In This Land of Plenty
2020 Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
2020 Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History
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When Representative Mickey Leland of Houston, Texas died in 1989, he was a forty-four-year-old, charismatic, black, radical American member of the U.S. Congress. In This Land of Plenty presents Leland as the personification of black internationalism during the 1980s and examines African Americans' successes and failures in radically influencing U.S. foreign policy toward Global South countries.
Alison Leland with Benjamin Talton and the Leland Bus
October 2019
Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Benjamin Talton, and Alison Leland
October 2019