Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience

Robert Carr

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Black Nationalism in the New World

Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience

Robert Carr
Edited by: Walter D. Mignolo , Irene Silverblatt and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2002

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Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

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Provides new insight into the development of black nationalism by examining the intersection of African-American and West Indian nationalist literatures.

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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.

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“Robert Carr’s book places at our disposal a virtually unique comparative study of cultural production in the United States and the Caribbean.”—Hortense Spillers, Cornell University

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. F(o)unding Black Capital: Money, Power, Culture, and Revolution in Martin R. Delany’s Blake; or The Huts of America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
2. Of What Use Is History? Blood, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity in Pauline Hopkins’s New Woman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
3. From Larva to Chrysalis: Multicultural Consciousness and Anticolonial Revolution in Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	106
4. The New Man in the Jungle: Chaos, Community, and the Margins of the Nation-State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	150
5. The Masculinization of Mothering: The Oakland Black Panthers and the Black Body Politic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	186
6. A Politics of Change: Sistren, Subalternity, and the Social Pact in the War for Democratic Socialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
7. Geopolitics/Geoculture: Denationalization in the New World Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	270
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361

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October 18, 2002

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9780822383888

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384

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383888

eBook ISBN: 9780822383888

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