Negro With a Hat - The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

Informationen zum Autor Colin Grant is an independent historian who works for BBC Radio. The son of Jamaican parents, he lives in London. Klappentext In the first full-length biography of Garvey in a generation, Colin Grant captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Grant
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2010
• EAN: 9780195393095
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539309-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Ethnic Studies, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Biography: historical, political and military, Black & Asian Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional