This is a systemic study of the politics and culture of the Afro-Caribbean migration to the United States, explaining the enigma of political radicalism among Caribbean migrants in America. It reports on black leadership, from Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam to Colin Powell.
Winston James is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion (2000), The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 (2010) and editor with Clive Harris of Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (1993). James won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association for Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia. He is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.
Superbly written, full of well-digested and considered detail, it
is a historic chronicle.
*Edward Said*
A brilliant, nuanced and sensitive re-examination of the history of
Caribbean radicals and radicalism in the United States. James's
book will survive for many years as the standard work on the
subject and establishes the author as one of the premier scholars
of the African Diaspora.
*Colin Palmer, City University of New York*
A major historical contribution to the 'hidden history' of the
African diaspora . richly detailed, powerful and compelling.
*Stuart Hall, The Open University*
Imaginatively written in addition to its solid scholarly base, this
book breaks significant new ground in our understanding of modern
black American radicalism.
*Arnold Rampersad, Princeton University*
In this thoroughly researched and tightly argued book Winston James
has revealed and explained the prominent role of Afro-Caribbean
immigrants in socialist, communist and nationalist struggles in the
United States, whilst rescuing the topic from the stereotypes that
have long surrounded it.
*David Montgomery, Yale University*
James elucidates, as no one has done before him, just how profound
were the Caribbean contributions that enriched the soil of American
radicalism . A truly prodigious and imaginative reconstruction
[which] heralds a genuine renascence of radical scholarship in the
best Caribbean tradition.
*Robert A. Hill, University of California, Los Angeles*
Powerfully argued and provocative, Holding Aloft the Banner of
Ethiopia literally reframes our understanding of the
African-American experience.
*Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago*
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