Global Garveyism

Ronald J. Stephens, Adam Ewing

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780813073552
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: Social Sciences

Illuminating the global impact of Marcus Garvey's Black nationalist philosophy



Arguing that the accomplishments of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers have been marginalized in narratives of the Black freedom struggle, this volume builds on decades of overlooked research to reveal the profound impact of Garvey’s post–World War I Black nationalist philosophy around the globe and across the twentieth century.    



These essays point to the breadth of Garveyism’s spread and its reception in communities across the African diaspora, examining the influence of Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Africa, Australia, North America, and the Caribbean. They highlight the underrecognized work of many Garveyite women and show how the UNIA played a key role in shaping labor unions, political organizations, churches, and schools. In addition, contributors describe the importance of grassroots efforts for expanding the global movement—the UNIA trained leaders to organize local centers of power, whose political activism outside the movement helped Garvey’s message escape its organizational bounds during the 1920s. They trace the imprint of the movement on long-term developments such as decolonization in Africa and the Caribbean, the pan-Aboriginal fight for land rights in Australia, the civil rights and Black Power movements in the United States, and the radical pan-African movement.  



Rejecting the idea that Garveyism was a brief and misguided phenomenon, this volume exposes its scope, significance, and endurance. Together, contributors assert that Garvey initiated the most important mass movement in the history of the African diaspora, and they urge readers to rethink the emergence of modern Black politics with Garveyism at the center.  





Contributors: Ronald J. Stephens | Adam Ewing | Keisha N. Blain | Nicole Bourbonnais | José Andrés Fernández Montes de Oca | John Maynard | Erik S. McDuffie | Frances Peace Sullivan | Robert Trent Vinson | Michael O. West

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction: Global Garveyism
• 1. Garveyism Root and Branch: From the Age of Revolution to the Onset of Black Power
• 2. “No Surrender”: Migration, the Garvey Movement, and Community Building in Cuba
• 3. “The Second Battle for Africa Has Begun”: Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., Garveyism, Liberia, and the Diasporic Midwest, 1966–1978
• 4. Marcus M. Garvey and Joseph A. Craigen: Collaborations and Conflicts
• 5. Our Joan of Arc: Women, Gender, and Authority in the Harmony Division of the UNIA
• 6. “The Language of Freedom”: Garveyite Women, Diasporic Politics, and Pan-African Discourses of the 1940s
• 7. “Hidden” in Plain Sight: Toward a History of Garveyite Women in South Africa and the Increased Visibility of Africa in Global Garveyism
• 8. Popular Pan-Africanism: Rumor, Identity, and Intellectual Production in the Age of Garvey
• 9. “The Age of Unrest, the Age of Dissatisfaction”: Marcus Garvey and the Rise of Australian Aboriginal Political Protest, 1920–1929
• 10. “No Race Question”: Garveyism and Trinidad’s Labor Movement in the Age of Black Internationalism, 1919–1925
• 11. Decolonization, Desegregation, and Black Power: Garveyism in Another Era
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index