The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society - Softcover

Stein, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080711670X ISBN 13: 9780807116708

Publisher: LSU Press, 1991

Synopsis

In the years during and after World War I the Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey led what has been called the largest international mass movement of black people in the twentieth century. He and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), built a steamship line, sponsored expeditions to Liberia, staged annual international conventions, inspired many black business enterprises, endorsed black political candidates, and fostered the study of black history and culture.

In The World of Marcus Garvey, Judith Stein examines Garvey’s ideology and appeal by placing Garvey and the UNIA carefully in the context of the international black politics and class structure of the period. She analyzes the ways Garvey boldly employed conventional racial ideas and goals to organize a militant black population during the social and political upheavals of World War I and its aftermath. In addition, Stein sheds new light on her subject, drawing on personal interviews with surviving Garveyites and reports from the federal government’s intelligence organizations.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Stein is a professor of history at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also the author of Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism.

From Library Journal:

Class more than race was the key to Garvey (1887-1940) and his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), argues Stein (History, City Coll., CUNY). Frustrated bourgeois expectations motivated Garvey and shaped the UNIAwith the Black Star Line steamship company at its coreas a middle-class movement that pushed business enterprise as a solution to black problems while taking on the black elite's rhetoric of Pan-Africanism and discovering the effectiveness of mass mobilization, she says. Challenging E. David Cronin, Theodore Draper, Robert A. Hill, Tony Martin, Theodore Vincent, et al., Stein offers a provocative but overreaching view and contributes a comparative analysis of black society in the United States, the Caribbean, and West Africa. Recommended for African-American and social-history collections. Thomas J. Davis, History Dept., Howard Univ., Washington, D.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 080711670X
• ISBN 13: 9780807116708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320