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2005

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Stephens Michelle Ann Stephens

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382

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2005

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18 juillet 2005

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9780822386896

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In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of "transnational blackness" that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows how these thinkers developed ideas of a worldwide racial movement and federated global black political community that transcended the boundaries of nation-states. Stephens highlights key geopolitical and historical events that gave rise to these writers' intellectual investment in new modes of black political self-determination. She describes their engagement with the fate of African Americans within the burgeoning U.S. empire, their disillusionment with the potential of post-World War I international organizations such as the League of Nations to acknowledge, let alone improve, the material conditions of people of color around the world, and the inspiration they took from the Bolshevik Revolution, which offered models of revolution and community not based on nationality.Stephens argues that the global black political consciousness she identifies was constituted by both radical and reactionary impulses. On the one hand, Garvey, McKay, and James saw freedom of movement as the basis of black transnationalism. The Caribbean archipelago-a geographic space ideally suited to the free movement of black subjects across national boundaries-became the metaphoric heart of their vision. On the other hand, these three writers were deeply influenced by the ideas of militarism, empire, and male sovereignty that shaped global political discourse in the early twentieth century. As such, their vision of transnational blackness excluded women's political subjectivities. Drawing together insights from American, African American, Caribbean, and gender studies, Black Empire is a major contribution to ongoing conversations about nation and diaspora.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

18 juillet 2005

EAN13

9780822386896

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Black Empire

New Americanists

a s e r i e s e d i t e d b y d o n a l d e . p e a s e

Black Empire t h e m a s c u l i n e g l o b a l i m a g i n a r y

o f c a r i b b e a n i n t e l l e c t u a l s

i n t h e u n i t e d s t a t e s ,

1914–1962

Michelle Ann Stephens d u k e u n i v e r s i t y p r e s sd u r h a m a n d l o n d o n2005

∫2005 Duke University Pressr i g ht s r e s e r v e da l l Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper! Designed byAndrew Shurtz Typeset inAdobe CaslonbyKeystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

To my parents, c a r o l e a u d r e yandg e o r g e s t e p h e n s , and in memoriam tos p r i n k e rm i c h a e l , for their intelligence and care

There will be a turning point in the history of the West Indies . . . [T]he people who in-habit that portion of the Western hemisphere will be theinstruments of uniting a scat-tered racewho, before the close of many centuries, will found an Empire on which the sun shall shine as ceaselessly as it shines on the Europe of the North today.

— marcus garvey

It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and

grows. And this two-fold emerging is ultimately only the source of all culture.

— frantz fanon

contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Isles and Empire

p a r t i :Blackness and Empire: The World War I Moment

1. The New Worldly Negro: Sovereignty, Revolutionary Masculinity, and American Internationalism 35 2. The Woman of Color and the Literature of a New Black World 56 3. Marcus Garvey, Black Emperor 74 4. The Black Star Line and the Negro Ship of State 102

p a r t i i: Mapping New Geographies of History

127

5. Claude McKay and Harlem, Black Belt of the Metropolis 129 6. ‘‘Nationality Doubtful’’ andBanjo’s Crew in Marseilles 167 7. C. L. R. James and the Fugitive Slave inAmerican Civilization204 8. America Is One Island Only: The Caribbean and American Studies 241

Conclusion: Dark Waters: Shadow Narratives of U.S. Imperialism

Notes283 Bibliography Index353

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