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"This book is really smart, interesting, and useful--in short, an incredible addition to scholarship in the areas it addresses. It is an outstanding work."--Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. F(o)unding Black Capital: Money, Power, Culture, and Revolution in Martin R. Delany’s
Blake; or The Huts of America 2. Of What Use Is History? Blood, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity in Pauline Hopkin’s New Woman
3. From Larva to Chrysalis: Multicultural Consciousness and Anticolonial Revolution in Ralph de Boissière’s
Crown Jewel 4. The New Man in the Jungle: Chaos, Community, and the Margins of the Nation-State
5. The Masculinization of Mothering: The Oakland Black Panthers and the Black Body Politic
6. A Politics of Change: Sistren, Subalternity, and the Social Pact in the War for Democratic Socialism
7. Geopolitics/Geoculture: Denationalization in the New World Order
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Robert Carr is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Psychology, and Social Work at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is a management consultant to a number of government and nongovernmental organizations specializing in culture-specific Caribbean responses to HIV/AIDS. He has a doctoral degree in English and has translated, along with Ileana Rodríguez, her book House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Latin American Literatures by Women, published by Duke University Press.
Summary
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the era of globalization, this book explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean.
