The Age of Garvey : How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics / Adam Ewing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ewing, Adam, author.

Series:

America in the World

America in the World ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Universal Negro Improvement Association--History.

Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940--Influence.

Garvey, Marcus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jamaican 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 be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between the First and Second World Wars, Adam Ewing charts Garveyism's emergence, its remarkable global transmission, and its influence in the responses among African descendants to white supremacy and colonial rule in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.Delving into the organizing work and political approach of Garvey and his followers, Ewing shows that Garveyism emerged from a rich tradition of pan-African politics that had established, by the First World War, lines of communication among black intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic. Garvey's legacy was to reengineer this tradition as a vibrant and multifaceted mass politics. Ewing looks at the people who enabled Garveyism's global spread, including labor activists in the Caribbean and Central America, community organizers in the urban and rural United States, millennial religious revivalists in central and southern Africa, welfare associations and independent church activists in Malawi and Zambia, and an emerging generation of Kikuyu leadership in central Kenya. Moving away from the images of quixotic business schemes and repatriation efforts, The Age of Garvey demonstrates the consequences of Garveyism's international presence and provides a dynamic and unified framework for understanding the movement, during the interwar years and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

Chapter One. The Education of Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Chapter Two. The Center Cannot Hold

Chapter Three. Africa for the Africans!

Chapter Four. "The Silent Work That Must Be Done"

Part Two: The Age of Garvey

Chapter Five. The Tide of Preparation

Chapter Six. Broadcast on the Winds

Chapter Seven. The Visible Horizon

Chapter Eight. Muigwithania (The Reconciler)

Afterword

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691173832

0691173834

9781400852444

1400852447

OCLC:

884645721