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Building upon local studies and paying tribute to an earlier generation of pioneering scholarship... more Building upon local studies and paying tribute to an earlier generation of pioneering scholarship, this work proposes a unified interpretation of Garveyist influence in the greater Caribbean, and it pays particular attention to the influence of Garveyism in the development of a regional mode of postwar labor politics, in which struggles for economic justice were viewed through a prism of racial solidarity and Pan-African mobilization. Thus, the paper argues that Garveyism was carried to the Caribbean archipelago and the Central American isthmus in the years between 1918 and 1920 as a inflammatory doctrine of racial mobilization that gave encouragement to-and provided a language of grievance for-a series of labor rebellions across the region after the First World War; and as the revolutionary period waned, Garveyists scaled back the stridency of their approach, joining their comrades in the United States in nurturing a cautious politics both sensitive to local exigencies and projecte...
Modern American History, 2018
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of work on Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, and the Uni... more The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of work on Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the American academy. Building on a first wave of Garveyism scholarship (1971–1988), and indebted to the archival and curatorial work of Robert A. Hill and the editors of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, this new work has traced the resonance of Garveyism across a staggering number of locations: from the cities and farms of North America to the labor compounds and immigrant communities of Central America to the colonial capitals of the Caribbean and Africa. It has pushed the temporal dimensions of Garveyism, connecting it backward to pan-African and black nationalist discourses and mobilizations as early as the Age of Revolution, and forward to the era of decolonization and Black Power. It has revealed the ways that Garveyism, a mass movement rooted in community aspirations, ideals, debates, and prejudice...
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey 13 Chapter One The... more Acknowledgments 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
Modern American History, 2018
This article examines the impact of Garveyism -the political brainchild of Jamaican activist Marc... more This article examines the impact of Garveyism -the political brainchild of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey -in the articulation of post first world war labour politics in the greater Caribbean region. Garveyism nurtured a platform of race-first, worker-oriented, anti-colonial politics that both gave encouragement to, and provided a language of grievance for, a series of strikes, riots and rebellions after the war. During the reactionary era that followed, Garveyites nimbly scaled back the stridency of their politics, replacing their emphasis on direct action and worker resistance with a labour politics that privileged organisation building and constitutional reform, but which continued to project the implications of the work in global terms, joined to Garveyites' end goal of African liberation and racial redemption. By the mid-1930s, a new labour politics emerged that both surpassed Garveyist labour organising in its stridency and relied on Garveyist tropes of racial solidarity; one that distanced itself from Garveyist labour organisers while boasting a leadership that had been nurtured within the Garvey movement.
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Building upon local studies and paying tribute to an earlier generation of pioneering scholarship... more Building upon local studies and paying tribute to an earlier generation of pioneering scholarship, this work proposes a unified interpretation of Garveyist influence in the greater Caribbean, and it pays particular attention to the influence of Garveyism in the development of a regional mode of postwar labor politics, in which struggles for economic justice were viewed through a prism of racial solidarity and Pan-African mobilization. Thus, the paper argues that Garveyism was carried to the Caribbean archipelago and the Central American isthmus in the years between 1918 and 1920 as a inflammatory doctrine of racial mobilization that gave encouragement to-and provided a language of grievance for-a series of labor rebellions across the region after the First World War; and as the revolutionary period waned, Garveyists scaled back the stridency of their approach, joining their comrades in the United States in nurturing a cautious politics both sensitive to local exigencies and projecte...
Modern American History, 2018
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of work on Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, and the Uni... more The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of work on Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the American academy. Building on a first wave of Garveyism scholarship (1971–1988), and indebted to the archival and curatorial work of Robert A. Hill and the editors of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, this new work has traced the resonance of Garveyism across a staggering number of locations: from the cities and farms of North America to the labor compounds and immigrant communities of Central America to the colonial capitals of the Caribbean and Africa. It has pushed the temporal dimensions of Garveyism, connecting it backward to pan-African and black nationalist discourses and mobilizations as early as the Age of Revolution, and forward to the era of decolonization and Black Power. It has revealed the ways that Garveyism, a mass movement rooted in community aspirations, ideals, debates, and prejudice...
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey 13 Chapter One The... more Acknowledgments 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
Modern American History, 2018
This article examines the impact of Garveyism -the political brainchild of Jamaican activist Marc... more This article examines the impact of Garveyism -the political brainchild of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey -in the articulation of post first world war labour politics in the greater Caribbean region. Garveyism nurtured a platform of race-first, worker-oriented, anti-colonial politics that both gave encouragement to, and provided a language of grievance for, a series of strikes, riots and rebellions after the war. During the reactionary era that followed, Garveyites nimbly scaled back the stridency of their politics, replacing their emphasis on direct action and worker resistance with a labour politics that privileged organisation building and constitutional reform, but which continued to project the implications of the work in global terms, joined to Garveyites' end goal of African liberation and racial redemption. By the mid-1930s, a new labour politics emerged that both surpassed Garveyist labour organising in its stridency and relied on Garveyist tropes of racial solidarity; one that distanced itself from Garveyist labour organisers while boasting a leadership that had been nurtured within the Garvey movement.