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Global Garveyism
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ISBN: 9780813057033 0813057035 9780813056210 0813056217 0813058031 Year: 2019 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,

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Garveyism was carried across the globe following the First World War, generating the largest mass movement in the history of the African diaspora. Throughout Africa and Europe, the Americas and Oceania, the ideas and praxis of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers sparked anti-colonial and anti-racist mobilizations, both within Garvey's organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and without. This volume showcases original essays by scholars working in Africa, the West Indies, the Hispanic Caribbean, North America, and Australia.


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Idlewild : the rise, decline, and rebirth of a unique African American resort town
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ISBN: 047211879X 0472029207 9780472029204 1306081564 9781306081566 9780472118793 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press/Regional,

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" In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country's foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and hosting the era's premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resulting expansion of recreation options available to African Americans, Idlewild suffered a sharp social and economic decline, and by the early 1980s the town had become a struggling retirement community in the midst of financial and political crises. Meticulously researched and unearthing never-before-seen historical material, Ronald J. Stephens's book examines the rapid rise and decline of this pivotal landmark in African American and leisure history, in the process exploring intersections among race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historic preservation in the United States. Featuring a wealth of fieldwork on contemporary Idlewild, the book also takes a candid look at recent revitalization efforts and analyzes the possibilities for a future resurgence of this national treasure"--

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