The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society - Brossura

Stein, Judith

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ISBN 10: 080711670X ISBN 13: 9780807116708

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1991

Riassunto

In the years during and after World War I the Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey led what has been called the largest international mass movement of black people in the twentieth century. He and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), built a steamship line, sponsored expeditions to Liberia, staged annual international conventions, inspired many black business enterprises, endorsed black political candidates, and fostered the study of black history and culture.

In The World of Marcus Garvey, Judith Stein examines Garvey’s ideology and appeal by placing Garvey and the UNIA carefully in the context of the international black politics and class structure of the period. She analyzes the ways Garvey boldly employed conventional racial ideas and goals to organize a militant black population during the social and political upheavals of World War I and its aftermath. In addition, Stein sheds new light on her subject, drawing on personal interviews with surviving Garveyites and reports from the federal government’s intelligence organizations.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Judith Stein is a professor of history at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also the author of Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080711670X
• ISBN 13: 9780807116708
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 250
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile