The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942 / Edition 1

by Claudrena N. Harold

Overview

The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused locally-based traditions, ideologies, and strategies of resistance with the Pan-African agenda of the UNIA to create a dynamic and multifaceted movement. A testament to the multidimensionality of black political subjectivity, Southern Garveyites fashioned a politics reflective of their international, regional, and local attachments. Moving beyond the usual focus on New York and the charismatic personality of Marcus Garvey, this book situates black workers at the center of its analysis and aims to provide a much-needed grassroots perspective on the Garvey movement. More than simply providing a regional history of one of the most important Pan-African movements of the twentieth century, The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South demonstrates the ways in which racial, class, and spatial dynamics resulted in complex, and at times competing articulations of black nationalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415956192
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/27/2007
Series:	Studies in African American History and Culture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claudrena N. Harold is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching interests include African American social and cultural history, black-nationalist and Pan-African movements, and labor politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Garveyism and the Rise of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South 2. We Are Constantly on the Firing Line: The Garvey Movement in New Orleans, 1920-1935 3. I am a Stranger Here: Black Bahamians and the Garvey Movement in Miami, Florida, 1920-1933 4. Garveyism, Black Workers, and the Struggle for African Repatriation in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1918-1942. Conclusion: Life After the Garvey Movement