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Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia Winston James

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia By Winston James

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia by Winston James


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A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States.

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia Summary

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America by Winston James

Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan-the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical politics in the United States is extensive. In this magisterial and lavishly illustrated work, Winston James focuses on the twentieth century's first waves of immigrants from the Caribbean and their contribution to political dissidence in America. This diligently researched, wide-ranging and sophisticated book will be welcomed by all those interested in the Caribbean and its emigres, the Afro-American current within America's radical tradition, and the history, politics, and culture of the African diaspora.

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia Reviews

Superbly written, full of well-digested and considered detail, it is a historic chronicle. - Edward Said A brilliant, nuanced and sensitive re-examination of the history of Caribbean radicals and radicalism in the United States. James's book will survive for many years as the standard work on the subject and establishes the author as one of the premier scholars of the African Diaspora. - Colin Palmer, City University of New York A major historical contribution to the 'hidden history' of the African diaspora ... richly detailed, powerful and compelling. - Stuart Hall, The Open University Imaginatively written in addition to its solid scholarly base, this book breaks significant new ground in our understanding of modern black American radicalism. - Arnold Rampersad, Princeton University In this thoroughly researched and tightly argued book Winston James has revealed and explained the prominent role of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in socialist, communist and nationalist struggles in the United States, whilst rescuing the topic from the stereotypes that have long surrounded it. - David Montgomery, Yale University James elucidates, as no one has done before him, just how profound were the Caribbean contributions that enriched the soil of American radicalism ... A truly prodigious and imaginative reconstruction [which] heralds a genuine renascence of radical scholarship in the best Caribbean tradition. - Robert A. Hill, University of California, Los Angeles Powerfully argued and provocative, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia literally reframes our understanding of the African-American experience. - Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago

About Winston James

Winston James is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion (2000), The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 (2010) and editor with Clive Harris of Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (1993). James won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association for Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia. He is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

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CIN1788736451VG
9781788736459
1788736451
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America by Winston James
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Verso Books
2020-02-18
448
N/A
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