The Mantle of Struggle
Between the Lines (Verlag)
978-1-77113-620-4 (ISBN)
After his deportation from Canada in 1976, having been named a danger to national security, Douglas participated in political movements around the world building global solidarity. He became a leader of the Libyan-based revolutionary group World Mathaba and supported Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. Once back home in Dominica, he led the movement for Dominica’s full political independence from Great Britain, then served as a senator in the post-independence government, an MP, party leader, and finally prime minister.
Relying on family sources, interviews, newspaper articles, government documents, and Douglas’ own articles, letters, and speeches, Irving Andre has drawn a rich and riveting record of this important Black revolutionary.
Justice Irving Andre is the author of A Century of Dominican Cricket, Strangers in Suffisant: British West Indians in Curacao, and the biographies of Franklin Baron, Dominica’s first chief minister; Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominica’s first premier; and Dr. Desmond McIntyre, Dominica’s first surgeon. Between 1990 and 2002, Andre worked as a prosecutor for the Ontario Ministry of Labour, an assistant crown attorney in Brampton, Ontario, a criminal defence lawyer, and a vice-president of the Ontario Licence Appeals Tribunal. In 2002 he was appointed as a judge in the Ontario Court of Justice where he presided as the local administrative judge in the Region of Peel from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, Justice Andre was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice in Brampton, where he currently resides. David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution and editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal is the 2014 winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize. His writing engages the work of C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Hannah Arendt, Walter Rodney, and Linton Kwesi Johnson in relation politics, poetry and social movements. A former youth worker and community organizer, he has also produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon. He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
Foreword by David Austin
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part One1. The Island of Dominica
2. Portsmouth Harbour
Part Two3. The Heir Apparent Defects
4. A Gathering Storm
5. The Sir George Williams Incident
6. The Prosecution of Rosie Douglas
7. Incarceration
8. Black Radicalism in Toronto
9. Deportation
Part Three10. Return to Dominica
11. Political Independence
12. Freedom Fighter
13. Domestic Politics
14. The Road to Victory
15. The January 2000 General Election
Part Four16. Forming a Government
17. Internal Dissension
18. The Final Curtain
19. The Death of Rosie Douglas
20. Rosie’s Legacy
AppendicesI. Statement from the Don Jail, Toronto, December 1971
II. Statement from the Leclerc Institution, January 3, 1974
III. Message of Greetings to the Socialist Party of France, Brest, November 21-23-1997
IV. Speech on the Swearing In of the Cabinet of the Government of Dominica, February 7, 2000
V. Statement at the 55th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 19, 2000
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | David Austin |
| Verlagsort | Ontario |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77113-620-0 / 1771136200 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77113-620-4 / 9781771136204 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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