Age of Garvey (eBook)

How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

Adam Ewing (Autor)

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2014
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5244-4 (ISBN)

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Adam Ewing is assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2014
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 22 halftones. 7 maps
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Advocacy • Africa • African Americans • African Association • African diaspora • African Liberation • African National Congress • African nationalism • African political expression • American Garveyism • Anticolonialism • A. Philip Randolph • Basutoland • black activists • Black Masculinity • black militancy • black people • black rule • Black Star Line • Booker T. Washington • British Empire • Caribbean • Central Africa • Central America • Civilization • Civilizing Mission • Class Inequality • Colonial agent • Colonialism • Colonial Office • colonial rule • Colonization • consciousness raising • Conscription • debt • demagogue • Deportation • diasporic identity building • Dominican Republic • East Africa • East African Campaign (World War II) • E. D. Morel • Edward Wilmot Blyden • Employment • Exclusion • Garveyism • Garveyist tribalism • Garvey Movement • Garvey scholarship • global black politics • global mass politics • Governance • Harry Thuku • Ideology • independent church • Infrastructure • Institution • Institutional Crisis • Insurgency • James Weldon Johnson • John Chilembwe • John Edward Bruce • Jomo Kenyatta • Kenya • Kenyan Garveyism • Kikuyu activists • Kikuyu Central Association • Kikuyu nationalism • Ku Klux Klan • laborer • Liberia • Library of Congress • Local politics • lynching • Malawi • Marcus Garvey • Marcus Mosiah Garvey • mass politics • Migrant worker • Missionary • movement making • Mozambique • mythmaking • Namibia • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Nationality • Nation-Building • Native Welfare Associations • Negro World • New Negro • New Negro Movement • newspaper • northern rhodesia • Nyasaland • of education • organic mass politics • pan-Africanism • pan-African tradition • peasant • Pedagogy • Political activism • Politics • Public sphere • racial inequality • Racial politics • Racial segregation • Racial uplift • Racism • radical Garveyism • Radicalism (historical) • Reformism • Religion • Religious Practices • Robert A. Hill • second-period Garveyism • Sedition • Self-determination • Senegal • separatism • Sierra Leone • Slavery • Southern Africa • Southern Rhodesia • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • Tanzania • Tax • tribal politics • Uganda • Unia • UNIA activism • United States • Universal Negro Improvement Association • Wealth • W. E. B. Du Bois • West Africa • West Indian • white people • white supremacy • world anticolonialism • World History • world movement • World War I • Zambia • Zimbabwe
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5244-7 / 1400852447
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5244-4 / 9781400852444