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Ladataan... Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus GarveyTekijä: Colin Grant
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey was once the most famous black man on earth. A brilliant orator who electrified his audiences, he inspired thousands to join his "Back to Africa" movement, aiming to create an independent homeland through Pan-African emigration--yet he was barred from the continent by colonial powers. This self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry fired the imagination of his followers. At the pinnacle of his fame in the early 1920s, Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association boasted millions of members in more than forty countries, and he was an influential champion of the Harlem Renaissance. J. Edgar Hoover was so alarmed by Garvey that he labored for years to prosecute him, finally using dubious charges for which Garvey served several years in an Atlanta prison. This biography restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century.--From publisher description. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Colin Grant says little about Rastafarianism, but this is a richly sourced Life & Times by a writer who respects but is not bedazzled by his subject. Garvey was an ambitious youth from a distant outpost of the British Empire who made himself into a race leader at a time when colonial empires were slowly losing their raison d'être and the African diaspora was generating a new consciousness in cosmopolitan centers around the world. Grant situates the life of Garvey at the intersection of many streams—from itinerant labor in Jamaica and the history of black journalism in the western hemisphere to the role of West Indians in the Harlem Renaissance and the clash between different visions of the Negro future in the early 20th c. With the wide perspective employed by Grant, this could have easily wandered into the weeds, but it never does. Rich with information, Negro With A Hat is a commendable effort. Dumb title, though.