Studies of political change on Grenada have invariably centred on the activities of T. Albert Marryshow in the period immediately after World War I. Drawing on the rich data available from contemporary newspapers, this paper argues that Donovan's efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provided the impetus and framework for Marryshow's later struggles. In fact, Marryshow himself admits Donovan's contributions to his political growth. The "first of the Federalists", Donovan preached federation long before the concept was fashionable. Embracing a broad approach to the island's situation, both activists linked local demands for change to the plight of Africans worldwide. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
An excerpt from by Winston James' book Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America (London: Verso, 1998) is presented
Grasmuck,Sherri (Author) and Pessar,Patricia R. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
Berkeley: University of California Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
247 p, The material success achieved by individual migrant households contrasts starkly with increasedsocio-economic inequality in the Dominican Republic and polarized class relations.
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Caribbean Reasonings Conference (5th : 2006 : Mona, Jamaica)., 302 p, Richard Hart's quest for political autonomy, decolonization and regional unity has earned him a space in the annals of history as one of Jamaica s leading nationalist figures and as a vital contributor to the Caribbean integration movement. As a key proponent of social, political and economic transformations in the region, Hart fought arduously for trade unionism, political sovereignty and mass-based democratic political parties among other important issues which advanced the lives of Caribbean nationals.
Kingston Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
A collection of essays on the history of Christianity and the role of the Church in the processes of colonization and decolonization in the Caribbean. The work is a cross-cultural study of the Church and society in the Dutch, Spanish, French and English Caribbean. It looks at the relationships that existed among slavery, colonialism and Catholicism, Christianity and decolonization, and the church and military dictatorships. Contents: The beginnings of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean / Johannes Meier -- Protestantism and slavery in the British Caribbean / Keith Hunte -- Christianity and slavery in the Dutch Caribbean / Armando Lampe -- The Catholic Church and the state in Haiti, 1804-1915 / Laënnec Hurbon -- The Catholic Church and the state in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1960 / William Wipfler -- Protestantism in Cuba, 1868-1968 / Theo Tschuy
"Alexander Bedward, minister of the revivalist Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church during the period 1889-1921, emerged as one of the island's earliest black nationalists. Under the guise of religion Bedward called on the black majority to rise up and take action against the prevailing system of racial discrimination, socio-economic deprivation, injustice, the tyranny of minority colonial rule, and to establish a government representative of the people. While he was revered by the masses, attracting thousands of followers at home and abroad, he was feared by the upper classes and colonial authorities, who saw him as a threat to political stability. An antagonistic relationship developed between the government and Bedward. Eventually, he was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to the lunatic asylum, where he later died." (publication abstract);
As anonymously as Anton de Kom began his life in 1898 in a small nineteenth-century Surinam village, it would be terminated forty-seven years later by forces beyond his control. His death, however, was not a singular event, but one representative of an entire generation of Surinamese migrants who, desiring to improve their lives, travelled northward to Holland, the "mother country", only to find a deeper sense of pain as unwanted and abused eacute;migrés. De Kom's migration to Holland occurred twice. First, as a youth he was pulled northward to understand better "her greatness". A decade later, he was forcibly pushed and exiled northward by the Dutch colonial authorities. On the second occasion, he became aware of his own illegitimate political birth as a colonial subject, and the psychological trap that awaited him when asked to defend the imperial country against an invading German army. His residence in exile exposed the serious dilemma of "two-ness", described by W.E.B. DuBois, when the colonized becomes psychologically and aesthetically committed to the colonizer's world, as well as that of the colonized. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
State University of New York at Binghamton (Author) and Center for Comparative Political Research (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2007-
Published:
Binghamton, NY: Center for Social Analysis Pub
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Published by: CSA Publications, 1984-2002; CQ Press, Washington, D.C., 2005-/ Latest issue consulted: 2007./ Published 1975- for the Council on Foreign Relations; 1976-1976 with the Center for Comparative Political Research, State University of New York at Binghamton; 1977- with the Center for Social Analysis, State University of New York at Binghamton; 1984/85 with the Center for Social Analysis, State University of New York at Binghamton; 1986- with the Center for Education and Social Research, State University of New York at Binghamton./ Published 1984/85-1987 for the Council on Foreign Relations; 1984/85-1984/85 with the Center for Social Analysis, State University of New York at Binghamton; 1986- with the Center for Education and Social Research, State University of New York at Binghamton.
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xiii
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246 p, Machine generated contents note: PART I lie Era of Catholic Exclusivism, 1815-1868 -- I Religion and Political Struggle 9 -- 2 The Roman Catholic Grip 24 -- 3 Cryplo-Proiesiams and Fseudo-Caihoiics 48 -- PART II ihe Revolutionary Cycle, 1868-1898 -- 4 Warand Religion 75 -- 5 Puerto Rico's First Protestant Congregations, -- 1869-1898 91 -- 6 Cuba's First Protestant Congregations, 1871-1883 116 -- 7 Revolution, Exile, and Cuban Protestantism, -- 1868-1898 130 -- Epilogue 162 -- Notes 171 -- Bibliography 219 -- Index 239.
