Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s; his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters; both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between the First and Second World Wars; Adam Ewing charts Garveyism's emergence; its remarkable global transmission; and its influence in the responses among African descendants to white supremacy and colonial rule in Africa; the Caribbean; and the United States.Delving into the organizing work and political approach of Garvey and his followers; Ewing shows that Garveyism emerged from a rich tradition of pan-African politics that had established; by the First World War; lines of communication among black intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic. Garvey’s legacy was to reengineer this tradition as a vibrant and multifaceted mass politics. Ewing looks at the people who enabled Garveyism’s global spread; including labor activists in the Caribbean and Central America; community organizers in the urban and rural United States; millennial religious revivalists in central and southern Africa; welfare associations and independent church activists in Malawi and Zambia; and an emerging generation of Kikuyu leadership in central Kenya. Moving away from the images of quixotic business schemes and repatriation efforts; The Age of Garvey demonstrates the consequences of Garveyism’s international presence and provides a dynamic and unified framework for understanding the movement; during the interwar years and beyond.
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