Building a Nation : Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora EPUB

by Eric D. Duke

Part of the New World Diasporas series

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Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award - Honorable Mention

The initial push for a federation among British Caribbean colonies might have originated among colonial officials and white elites, but the banner for federation was quickly picked up by Afro-Caribbean activists who saw in the possibility of a united West Indian nation a means of securing political power and more.

In Building a Nation, Eric Duke moves beyond the narrow view of federation as only relevant to Caribbean and British imperial histories. By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Duke convincingly expands and connects the movement's history squarely into the wider history of political and social activism in the early to mid-twentieth century black diaspora.

Exploring the relationships between the pursuit of Caribbean federation and black diaspora politics, Duke convincingly posits that federation was more than a regional endeavor; it was a diasporic, black nation-building undertaking--with broad support in diaspora centers such as Harlem and London--deeply immersed in ideas of racial unity, racial uplift, and black self-determination.

A volume in this series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A. Yelvington

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Pages:384 pages
Publisher:University Press of Florida
Publication Date:15/10/2018
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ISBN:9780813063720

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