Radical Moves
Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
Lara Putnam
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 01/2013
Pages: 336
Subject: History, Social Science
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807838136
DESCRIPTION
From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present.