...Robert A. Hill This essay argues that before Garveyism became an ideology in its own right in 1920, and before it began its political ascent in the United States in 1919, Marcus Garvey was exposed during his sojourn in Britain, in 1913–14, to one of the most important social movements...

... leader Marcus Garvey, the essay shows the role that Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) gave photography to both document and confer consistency and legitimacy to the leader and his movement in the midst of organizational tumult. The organization broadly, and Garvey especially...

... conflictual project with some of the leading anti-colonial radicals of the early to mid-twentieth century, figures like Marcus Garvey and George Padmore but also leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Claude McKay and Langston Hughes. While the Huiswouds’ political activity is known among a small...

...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 I recently received a copy of volume 13 of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers courtesy of its publisher, Duke University Press. 1 Subtitled The Caribbean Diaspora: 1921–1922 , this volume represents the third...

... to claim one’s subjectivity, while also confronting the annihilating power of racism. 1 When Robert Hill noted, “If you haven’t read what Garvey said today, I don’t know that you can be a brother at all,” he was warning his audience of the requirements for maintaining one’s status of belonging...

... and activist in her own right, she is the author of Garvey and Garveyism (New York: Collier, 1970), and editor of Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (New York: Arno Press and NY Times, 1969). 9933 well, and who...

...). An outstanding recent exception to the scholarly skepticism surrounding Garveyism is Charles V. Carnegie, Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), especially chapter 6. Although Carnegie’s and Stephens’s reconsiderations of Garvey share much...

...). An outstanding recent exception to the scholarly skepticism surrounding Garveyism is Charles V. Carnegie, Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), especially chapter 6. Although Carnegie’s and Stephens’s reconsiderations of Garvey share much...

...). An outstanding recent exception to the scholarly skepticism surrounding Garveyism is Charles V. Carnegie, Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), especially chapter 6. Although Carnegie’s and Stephens’s reconsiderations of Garvey share much...

...). An outstanding recent exception to the scholarly skepticism surrounding Garveyism is Charles V. Carnegie, Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), especially chapter 6. Although Carnegie’s and Stephens’s reconsiderations of Garvey share much...

... the island. In the complex mixture of the secular and religious functions of Garveyism in Cuba, the latter appears to be the most important. Th is, along with the concealment of UNIA’s racial 54. “Marcus Garvey and Miss H. V. Davis Tell Th rilling Story of Trip to West Indies and Central America...

... of Hall’s epilogue reveals an aporia that Hall’s struc- turing metaphor might otherwise have successfully obscured. Jumping fi fty years from the knighting of Phillipo’s son, George, it conjures the fi gure of Marcus Garvey, “who had grown up in St Ann’s Bay, once the stamping ground...

... 191 Introduction: On the Archaeologies of Black Memory David Scott A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone . . . I Many years ago I had the privilege of working at the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project at the University...

...-Africanist movement in Britain 39 Others included Marcus Garvey, W. Arthur Lewis, George Padmore, Eric Williams, Learie Constantine, Harold Moody, Ras T. Makonnen, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Sam Manning, Chris Braithwaite (who used the pseudonym “Jones Arnold Ward, and Una Marson...

... was imagined. For example, the 1970s memorialization of Sam Sharpe, who reportedly led the last major slave rebellion, and Nanny, a maroon leader, created a sense of the nation born out of the struggle for Emancipation. Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanist and founder of the United...

...” workers, attacked us at a moment when the police had abandoned Newport West, the location of the island’s principal seaport. 8 Trevor Munroe, cut in his head and slashed all over his back, had to run and hide. I was chopped in my head, used my shirt to stanch the bleeding, and ran to Marcus Garvey...

... of antagonism between two other major features of the decade: Garveyism and the Black Communist fellow travelers who departed the Comintern while they remained. Both instances of antagonism might instead be understood through what the author emphasizes are the intellectual points of convergence among...

.... —Marcus Garvey The negro mentality is almost incredibly childish and a negro is peculiarly susceptible to the sugges- tions of a member of his own race: he is therefore a prey for almost any black impostor of supernatural powers. —Sax Rohmer As long...