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Black Empire

The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962
  • Michelle Ann Stephens
  • Edited by: Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2005
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Expores the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay and C.L.R. James and argues that these black transnationals articulated a novel conception of black identity that reconfigures the meaning of American nationality.

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Michelle Ann Stephens is Associate Professor of English, American Studies, and African American Studies at Mount Holyoke College.

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Black Empire is a remarkable achievement, a comprehensive account of the global cognitive remapping of the Atlantic world by its travelling black subjects. This is a theoretically sophisticated and conceptually innovative study of West Indian intellectuals who confronted and shaped the geopolitical realities of the modern and modernizing world and refused to be limited by the historical terms, conditions, and discourses of national identity. Michelle Ann Stephens has produced a pathbreaking account of their response to migrancy, transnationalism, gender and empire. An invaluable book for everyone in Atlantic studies, the study of the Americas, black studies, ethnic studies and gender studies.”—Hazel V. Carby, author of Race Men

“In this strikingly original and rich study, Michelle Ann Stephens makes wonderful use of geography to remap early-twentieth-century black nationalism beyond the confines of national boundaries. With great acuity, she shows how three different radical Caribbean intellectuals imagined an international black empire that extended from the Americas to Africa and Europe. Black Empire brings a genuinely new perspective to bear on the complex interconnections of citizenship and Diaspora, gender and freedom, race and sovereignty.”—Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture


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