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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey | 
 enlarge | Author: Colin Grant
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 185607
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.7
ISBN: 0195367944
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.54092
EAN: 9780195367942
ASIN: 0195367944
Publication Date: March 17, 2008
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey was once the most famous black man on earth. A brilliant orator who electrified his audiences, he inspired thousands to join his "Back to Africa" movement, which aimed to create an independent homeland through Pan-African emigration. At the pinnacle of his fame in the early 1920s, Garvey was a power to be reckoned with. His Universal Negro Improvement Association boasted millions of members in more than forty countries, and he was an influential champion of the Harlem Renaissance, publishing Claude McKay and Langston Hughes in his newspaper The Negro World.
To his admirers, Garvey was the "Black Moses," though he made enemies almost as easily as friends: early in his career both Winston Churchill and J. Edgar Hoover deemed him enough of a threat to warrant continual surveillance. Indeed, so alarmed by Garvey was Hoover that he labored for years to discover a way to prosecute him, finally settling on dubious charges of mail fraud, for which Garvey served several years in an Atlanta prison. W.E.B. DuBois, a bitter rival, believed Garvey to be merely an outlandish "negro with a hat."
In the first full-length biography of Garvey in a generation, Colin Grant captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. He spent most of his adult life outside of Jamaica, but was crowned the island's first national hero after his death. He advocated for a return to Africa, but was barred by colonial powers from ever setting foot on the continent. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century.
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Kudos to Colin Grant! May 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow! What a wonderful read. I learned so much and Mr. Grant made so many pieces of history fall into place for me. Obviously my education regarding African-American History has been incomplete. Growing up in the sixties with "The Black Power Movement," I now understand where it began and Garvey has not received enough credit or press for his "dream." This book has greatly blessed me. Right on Colin Grant! Thank you.
Thoughtful and balanced presentation of a thoroughly complex individual's life. April 3, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Independent historian and BBC Radio script editor Colin Grant presents Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey, an in-depth biography of Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), who is perhaps best-known for his "Back to Africa" movement that sought to create an independent homeland through Pan-African emigration. Known as the "Black Moses" to his many admirers, and crowned Jamaica's first national hero after his death, Marcus Garvey also made plenty of enemies - he was deemed a enough of a threat by Winston Churchill and J. Edgar Hoover to warrant surveillance, and was scornfully derided as a "negro with a hat" by W.E.B. Du Bois. His talent for promoting his ideas and resurrecting memory of lost African civilization was unsurpassed, and he earned his place in history as one of the founders of black nationalism and a crucial figure of the twentieth century. Negro with a Hat spares no detail yet remains accessible to readers of all backgrounds, and is highly recommended for its thoughtful and balanced presentation of a thoroughly complex individual's life.
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