The Caribbean Race Reader

From Colonialism to Anticolonial Thought

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi, Aaron Kamugisha

• Publisher: Polity
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781509551200, 9781509551194
• eBook ISBN: 9781509551217
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European colonization at the end of the fifteenth century to the period of decolonization in the aftermath of World War II. This critical anthology stakes out the unique contribution made by the region to the global history of race.

The Caribbean Race Reader provides students and scholars of the region with vital access to some of the most important contributions on race and Caribbean society, many of which are difficult to access, and assembles them together as part of a series of key debates. At a time when the searing realities of race and antiblack racism stand out as global, existential crises, this volume both documents the Caribbean's important contribution to global histories of race and provides an excellent overview of the quest by the region's radical intelligentsia to undo racism's contemporary legacies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Series Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Aaron Kamugisha and Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi
• Part I: Making the Racial State
• 1. The Requisition
• 2. Barbados Slave Act of 1661: An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes
• 3. Barbados Act of 1668: An Act Declaring the Negro-Slaves of This Island to Be Real Estates
• 4. Columbus Was a Cannibal: Myth and the First Encounters William F. Keegan
• 5. The Idea of Value on Hispaniola Antonio Sánchez Valverde
• 6. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Proslavery Ideology Gordon Lewis
• 7. Caribbean Anti-Slavery: The Self-Liberation Ethos of Enslaved Blacks Hilary Beckles
• Part II: The Long Nineteenth Century
• 8. Liberty or Death, Proclamation Jean-Jacques Dessalines
• 9. The Haitian Constitution of 1805
• 10. A War of the Races Thomas Holt
• 11. Memorandum by Bechu to the West India Royal (Norman) Commission, 1897 Bechu
• 12. Political Program of the Independent Party of Color
• 13. Cycles of Civilisation T. Albert Marryshow
• 14. Haiti, Cuba, and History: Antislavery and the Afterlives of Revolution Ada Ferrer
• Part III: Black Internationalism
• 15. Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
• 16. Africa for the Africans Marcus Garvey
• 17. Black Internationalism Jane Nardal
• 18. The British Empire Is the Worst Racket Yet Invented by Man George Padmore
• 19. The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA C.L.R. James
• 20. “[Black] Women Can Think and Speak and Write!” Claudia Jones
• 21. The Role of Women in Liberation Struggles Amy Jacques Garvey
• 22. Black Power – Its Relevance to the West Indies Walter Rodney
• Part IV: Anticolonialism
• 23. The Role of the Black Race in the History of Civilization Anténor Firmin
• 24. Our America José Martí
• 25. Race First versus Class First Hubert Harrison
• 26. Starvation, Misery and Terror in Dutch Guyana Anton de Kom
• 27. Now We Know Roger Mais
• 28. Puerto Rican Nationalism Pedro Albizu Campos
• 29. Discourse on Colonialism Aimé Césaire
• 30. The Malaise of a Civilization Suzanne Césaire
• 31. Racism and Culture Frantz Fanon
• 32. Suspension of the Constitution Cheddi Jagan
• 33. The Social Framework Elsa Goveia
• Source Acknowledgments
• Further Readings
• Index
• End User License Agreement