Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora

Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black DiasporaCaribbean 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

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which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement

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and by the end of the decade many of them had surrendered and been moved onto a reservation

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Sylvia is facing a new dilemma that could not only be the final straw that breaks her fragile marriage

author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary ImaginationIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts

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