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21%OFFAdam Ewing - The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics - 9780691157795 - V9780691157795
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The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

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Description for The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics Hardback. Series: America in the World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 halftones. 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
Jamaican 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
America in the World
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157795
SKU
V9780691157795
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About Adam Ewing
Adam Ewing is assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Reviews for The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Winner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "This remarkable book has moved completely away from the stereotyping of Garvey's Africa program as an escapist 'back to Africa' movement. Ewing has enhanced the study of the Garvey movement conceptually and empirically by tracing the networks and pathways of African Garveyism."
Rupert Lewis, New ... Read more

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