Postcolonial Theory and the African American Experience.

A century and a quarter ago deportation of the free Negroes might have been feasible; a half century later that was not a practical undertaking; today the deportation or exodus of the Negro American population is an utter impossibility ... Nor is there any place to which to take them. There are no more "vacant" places on earth. James Weldon Johnson, Executive Sec., NAACP, 1934.