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Remembering Marcus Garvey Through Reggae

February 6, 2017June 26, 2017 Quito J. Swan black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, music

Listen to the music. February 6 marks the birthday of Bob Marley. Born in Jamaica in 1945, the Reggae icon

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“Africa for the Africans”: The Expanding Field of Global Garveyism

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black nationalism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

Recently, the Global Garveyism conference took place at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Organized by Professors Adam Ewing (Virginia

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Global Garveyism: Mapping Those at Home and Abroad

April 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Guest Poster Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is a guest post by Adam Ewing, an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He

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Garveyism, Black Power, and the Intellectual History of the CARICOM Reparations Case

February 27, 2016February 27, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, black politics, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism

I was recently looking through scans of The Blackman, a periodical published by Marcus Garvey Jr., son of the founder

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Recent Works on Black Women, Gender, and Global Garveyism

December 31, 2015February 6, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #AgeofGarvey, black politics, Black women, Garveyism, Gender, Politics, Universal Negro Improvement Association

In my recent review of Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement

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