World of Marcus Garvey by Judith Stein

World of Marcus Garvey by Judith Stein

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.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780807112366
ISBN 10	0807112364
Title	World of Marcus Garvey
Author	Judith Stein
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Louisiana State University Press
Year published	1985-12-01
Number of pages	344
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