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| Title: | The Americo-Liberian ruling class and other myths: a critique of political science in the Liberian context |
| Author: | Burrowes, Carl Patrick |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Occasional paper |
| City of publisher: | Philadelphia |
| Publisher: | Temple University, Department of African-American Studies |
| Geographic term: | Liberia |
| Subjects: | African Americans political elite |
| Abstract: | This paper is a critical overview of political science in the Liberian context, with special reference to three works: H. Boima Fahnbulleh Jr.'s, The diplomacy of prejudice: Liberia in international politics, 1945-1970 (1985); Steven S. Hlophe's, Class, ethnicity and politics in Liberia: a class analysis of power struggles in the Tubman and Tolbert administrations from 1944-1975 (1979); and J. Gus Liebenow's, Liberia: the evolution of privilege. (1964). Attention is paid to the uses and misuses of ethnicity, the role of the State and the presidency, class and bureaucracy, the Americo-Liberian ruling class, the crimes of the powerful, the nation, eurocentrism and negative endogemy. |