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University of the West Indies Press Marcus Garvey
Book SynopsisThis biography of Marcus Garvey documents the forging of his remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918). Central to Garvey's response was the development of organizations under the umbrella of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, which garnered the transnational support of several million members and sympathizers and challenged white supremacist practices and ideas. Garvey established the ideological pillars of twentieth century pan-Africanism in promoting self-determination and self-reliance for Africa's independence. Although Garvey travelled widely and lived abroad in New York and London, he spent his early years in Jamaica. Rupert Lewis traces how Garvey's Jamaican formation shaped his life and thought and how he combated the British colonial authorities as well as fought deep-rooted self-doubt and self-rejection among Jamaican black people. Garvey's much neglected political and cultural work at the local level is discussed as part of his project to stimulate self-determination in Africa and its diaspora.
£13.56
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica Caribbean Political Activism: Richard Hart
Book SynopsisRichard Hart’s constant quest for political autonomy, decolonisation and regional unity has earned him a space in the annals of history as one of Jamaica’s leading nationalist figures and as a vital contributor to the Caribbean integration movement. As a key proponent of social, political and economic transformations in the region, Hart fought arduously for trade unionism, political sovereignty and mass-based democratic political parties among other important issues which advanced the lives of Caribbean nationals. Hart’s upper middle class upbringing and his status as a lawyer was never a deterrent to his championing the cause of the ordinary man; for his subversive political beliefs and radical stance against colonial powers, he was imprisoned by the British colonial government in the 1940s, expelled by the Peoples’ National Party in 1952 and branded a radical by those who deemed his beliefs rogue and detrimental to their interests in the Caribbean. Caribbean Reasonings – Caribbean Political Activism: Essays in Honour of Richard Hart offers some of the best assessment of the work of one of Jamaica’s best politicians, activists and historians. Along with a critical reflection of his work, Caribbean Political Activism: Essays in Honour of Richard Hart also shows the struggles the Jamaican and Grenadian societies faced in the post-independence years of the 1970s and 1980s.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Richard Hart's Evaluation of Early Modern Jamaican Politics - Rupert Lewis 1. Preserving the Record: The Role of the Political Activist/Historian - John A. Aarons 2. The Logic of Richard Hart's Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: Black Abolition and the Agency of Emancipated Nationhood - Clinton Hutton 3. Richard Hart and the 'Resurrection' of Marcus Garvey - Robert A. Hall 4. Insights from the 1938 (All Jamaica) Economic and Industrial Conference - Mark Figueroa 5. The Present in the Past: Caribbean Economic Development Since Independence: The 1960s to 2000s 6. Alexander Bustamante and the Constitutional Government in Jamaica, 1944 - 47 - Robert Buddan 7. Seaforth in the Eye of the Storm: The Role of the Rastafari in Major 1938 Events - Louis E. A. Moyston 8. The 1930s Labour Rebellions in Barbados and Jamaica: Considering Violence and Leadership in Decolonisation - Maziki Thame 9. The Early Political History of Wilfred A. Domingo, 1919 - 39 - Margaret Sevens 10. Black Marxist: Champion of the Negro Toilers - Rodney Worrell 11. Self-Liberation: The Cases of Occupied Haiti and the Anglophone Caribbean's Labour Rebellions - Myrtha Desulme 12. Imagining Freedom: Afro-Jamaican Yearnings and the Politics of the Worker's Party of Jamaica - Obika Gray 13. Grenada, Once Again: Revisiting the 1983 Crisis and the Collapse of the Grenada Revolution - Brian Meeks 14. Grenada, Education, and Revolution, 1979 - 83 - Anne Hickling-Hudson 15. Foreign Policy and Economic Development in Small States: A Case Study of Grenada - Patsy Lewis
£20.06
Princeton University Press The Age of Garvey
Book SynopsisJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to bTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "This remarkable book has moved completely away from the stereotyping of Garvey's Africa program as an escapist 'back to Africa' movement. Ewing has enhanced the study of the Garvey movement conceptually and empirically by tracing the networks and pathways of African Garveyism."--Rupert Lewis, New West Indian Guide "The Age of Garvey is ambitious in its scope and argument, both of which are made clear by the book's title. Ewing succeeds in making the case for the worldwide nature and significance of Garveyism, bringing to bear his own meticulous original research in Africa, all of the relevant scholarship that is available, and his learned understanding of diversity within the global diaspora. It is hard to imagine a more coherent and informed presentation of this extremely complex and elusive subject."--Mary G. Rolinson, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey 13 Chapter One The Education of Marcus Mosiah Garvey 15 Chapter Two The Center Cannot Hold 45 Chapter Three Africa for the Africans! 76 Chapter Four "The Silent Work That Must Be Done" 107 Part Two: The Age of Garvey 127 Chapter Five The Tide of Preparation 129 Chapter Six Broadcast on the Winds 160 Chapter Seven The Visible Horizon 186 Chapter Eight Muigwithania (The Reconciler) 212 Afterword 238 Abbreviations 243 Notes 245 Index 299
£40.50
Princeton University Press The Age of Garvey
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "This remarkable book has moved completely away from the stereotyping of Garvey's Africa program as an escapist 'back to Africa' movement. Ewing has enhanced the study of the Garvey movement conceptually and empirically by tracing the networks and pathways of African Garveyism."--Rupert Lewis, New West Indian Guide "The Age of Garvey is ambitious in its scope and argument, both of which are made clear by the book's title. Ewing succeeds in making the case for the worldwide nature and significance of Garveyism, bringing to bear his own meticulous original research in Africa, all of the relevant scholarship that is available, and his learned understanding of diversity within the global diaspora. It is hard to imagine a more coherent and informed presentation of this extremely complex and elusive subject."--Mary G. Rolinson, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey 13 Chapter One The Education of Marcus Mosiah Garvey 15 Chapter Two The Center Cannot Hold 45 Chapter Three Africa for the Africans! 76 Chapter Four "The Silent Work That Must Be Done" 107 Part Two: The Age of Garvey 127 Chapter Five The Tide of Preparation 129 Chapter Six Broadcast on the Winds 160 Chapter Seven The Visible Horizon 186 Chapter Eight Muigwithania (The Reconciler) 212 Afterword 238 Abbreviations 243 Notes 245 Index 299
£25.20
University of the West Indies Press Marcus Garvey
Book SynopsisThis biography of Marcus Garvey documents the forging of his remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918).Central to Garvey’s response was the development of organizations under the umbrella of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, which garnered the transnational support of several million members and sympathizers and challenged white supremacist practices and ideas.Garvey established the ideological pillars of twentieth-century pan-Africanism in promoting self-determination and self-reliance for Africa’s independence. Although Garvey travelled widely and lived abroad in New York and London, hespent his early years in Jamaica. Rupert Lewis traces how Garvey’s Jamaican formation shaped his life and thought and how he combated the British colonial authorities as well as fought deep-rooted self-doubt and self-rejection among Jamaican black people. Garvey’s much neglected political and cultural work at the local level is discussed as part of his project to stimulate self-determination in Africa and its diaspora.
£20.21
