...Omaris Z. Zamora This essay takes on the task of reflecting on the keyword negro from a transnational standpoint that considers how negro / a/x , a sociopolitical identity, falls in and out of AfroLatinidad in Latin American and hispanic Caribbean diasporas. In particular, the author is concerned...

...Grégory Pierrot This essay presents and studies five different words used in French to express the notion of Blackness . The five words analyzed— nègre , noir , black , renoi , and négro —entered the French language between the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century...

... Germaine, Evangeline, and Other “Negro Girls”: Rudy Burckhardt’s Caribbean Peter James Hudson James Weldon Johnson once recalled Port-au-Prince as “the finest city of all the Latin- American seaports” that he had seen.1 Few others have echoed his claim. Instead, Haiti’s...

... representation of the Cuban government's agricultural project, the reappearance of this footage from the section on slavery suggests the continuity of racial hierarchies that divide labor under the Revolution. This ambiguous moment in the film is then paired with the caption, “en Cuba, todos los negros y todos...

..., and Césaire's works in particular, as a movement and not an essence. It is a reflection on Césaire's latest work, Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai ( Negro I Am, Negro I Shall Remain ), which is a response to those who considered Negritude something of the past to be superseded by the movement of creolization...

...Barnor Hesse Nahum Chandler, in his remarkably evocative book X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought , works with the Derridean idea of the exorbitant to argue that W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking exceeds and transforms the terms of Western critical thought on modernity. Du Bois...

... in the short story collection Tropic Death and the pamphlet The British Negro , respectively. The essay demonstrates how and why South Africa proved significant to an emergent radical consciousness in the Caribbean and the vicissitudes of turning to south(ern), not only West, Africa to think through Africa...

... overlapping—yet very distinctive—radicalisms. Via the Negro Worker , the organ of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, the Huiswouds participated in this intellectual ferment emanating from the Caribbean and crucially hooked into African continental and diasporic readings of colonial rule...

... of the Edwardian era: the Brotherhood movement. From his exposure to the movement's ideology and his participation in its organizational successes, Garvey obtained the template of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which he created on his return to Jamaica from England in mid-1914. The first attempt...

... 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...

...Holger Weiss This essay focuses on the activities of Otto Huiswoud from 1934 to 1937, when he was secretary of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) and closely operated within the circuits of the Red International of Labour Unions and the Third (Communist) International...

... with the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW). 11 To give more historic context, between 1930 and 1935 Padmore was heavily criticized and, in the end, expelled from the ITUCNW and the Communist Party. Adom Getachew, among other scholars, writes about Padmore’s transition from Communism to Pan...

... York University Press, 2001), 42–70; Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, “The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano , Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York, 1891–1938,” Journal of American Ethnic History 21, no. 1 (2001): 3–49; and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, “The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg...

... in the former location of the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s (UNIA) Liberty Hall. It was in that Liberty Hall that the Mount Sinai Church of Banes, led by a woman descendant of immigrants from the British Caribbean, held its fi rst meetings in the 1940s. In Jobabo...