Winston James

Holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia (eBook, ePUB)

Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan-the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical politics in the United States is extensive. In this magisterial and lavishly illustrated work, Winston James focuses on the twentieth century's first waves of immigrants from the Caribbean and their contribution to political dissidence in America.

This diligently researched, wide-ranging and sophisticated book will be welcomed by all those interested in the Caribbean and its ¿migr¿s, the Afro-American current within America's radical tradition, and the history, politics, and culture of the African diaspora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781788736992
• Artikelnr.: 58634621

Autorenporträt

Winston James is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion (2000), The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 (2010) and editor with Clive Harris of Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (1993). James won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association for Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia. He is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.