The Second Battle for Africa
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The Second Battle for Africa

Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Second Battle for Africa

Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom

About this book

In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey's Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and its offshoots. Throughout the region, Black thinkers, activists, and cultural workers, like the Grenada-born activist Louise Little, championed Black freedom. McDuffie explores Garveyism and its changing facets from the 1920s onward, including the role of Black midwesterners during the emergence of fascism in the 1930s, the postwar US Black Freedom Movement and African decolonization, the rise of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X in the 1950s and 1960s, and the continuing legacy of Garvey in today's Black Midwest. Throughout, McDuffie evaluates the possibilities, limitations, and gendered contours of Black nationalism, radicalism, and internationalism in the UNIA and Garvey-inspired movements. In so doing, he unveils new histories of Black liberation and Global Africa.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction. A Manifesto on the Making of the Diasporic Midwest and Garveyism
  7. 1. “We are a Nation Within a Nation”: The Making of the Diasporic Midwest and Black Nationalism before the Twentieth Century
  8. 2. Stronghold: The Diasporic Midwest and Heyday of the UNIA
  9. 3. New Directions: Garveyism in the Heartland during the Great Depression
  10. 4. “On December 7 One Billion Black people . . . Struck for Freedom”: Midwestern Garveyism during the 1940s
  11. 5. “New Africa Faces the World”: Midwestern Garveyism During the 1950s
  12. 6. “Message to the Grass Roots”: The Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and Early Black Power
  13. 7. “The Second Battle for Africa has Begun”: Garveyism and Black Power in the Diasporic Midwest
  14. Conclusion. The Diasporic Midwest and Global Garveyism in a New Millennium
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index