Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South

Associate Professor of History Andrew Zimmerman published Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Zimmerman explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind the 1901 Tuskegee Institute expedition to Togo in West Africa, and the economic, political, and intellectual links connecting Germany, Africa, and the southern United States.