This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical constructs, the contributors plumb a wide range of localities to engage many important subjects, including slavery and emancipation, transnational and diasporic experiences, social and political activism, and political and cultural identity. In doing so, they offer insightful and thought provoking studies, highlight new areas of inquiry in the...
This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship...
Remarkable, impressive. Duke makes a double contribution to historical scholarship: to the historiography of federalism in the Caribbean and to the historiography of political dissent, activism, and solidarity within Caribbean diaspora Winston James, author of Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America This well-researched and accessible book deepens our understanding of early twentieth-century West Indian political culture and transnational mobilization. April Mayes, author of The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican...
Remarkable, impressive. Duke makes a double contribution to historical scholarship: to the historiography of federalism in the Caribbean and to the hi...
By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Eric Duke convincingly expands and connects the movement's history squarely into the wider history of political and social activism in the early to mid-twentieth century black diaspora.
By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Eric Duke convincingly expands ...