Rupert Lewis and the black intellectual tradition / edited by Clinton A. Hutton with Maziki Thame and Jermaine McCalpin.

"Recounts the work of a renowned scholar and activist Rupert Lewis who has made an indelible mark on Caribbean life. Through a collection of academic papers and personal reflections, primarily proceeding from a 2013 conference, some of the leading contemporary political minds in the Caribbean have converged in this volume to put forward a collection of essays that detail Rupert Lewis's impact on issues such as black nationalism and identity, social and racial equality, and Caribbean and human liberation".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

UWI Mona and the government of Jamaica, 1967-69 / Ken Post -- Jamaican black power in the 1960s / Rupert Lewis -- Reflections on the Caribbean radical tradition : a conversation with professor Rupert Lewis : Rupert Lewis interviewed by Jermaine McCalpin -- Radical Caribbean thought : Rupert Lewis and the politics of an "internal dread" / Anthony Bogues -- Edward Seaga and the question of leveling : seeing Manley and the other side / F.S.J. Ledgister -- Characteristics of the Grenadian Revolution and the Caribbean situation / Maurice Bishop interviewed by Rupert Lewis -- Blowing the abeng : Rupert Lewis and the rebuilding of Caribbean socialism / Paget Henry -- Echoes of the Bandung Movement in the Caribbean and China's presence in the region today / Rupert Lewis -- Quobna Ottobah Cuoano : black radical heretic or black radical liberal? / Charles W. Mills -- Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Haitian Revolution : global agency of universal modernity / Clinton A. Hutton -- The Sett Girls and pedagogy of the streets : an aural black counterpublic / Lina Sturtz -- Sankofa : Garvey's Pan Africanism, negritude and decolonising narratives / Mawuena Logan -- Arthur Lewis : mild afro-saxon or militant anti-racist : lessons from his struggles and his disparagement by other black power advocates / Mark Figueroa -- Memory gems of revolution : the lived experiences of Elean Rosayly Thomas / Linette Vassell -- Pedagogy and Leroy Clarke's philosophy of being : freedom and sovereignty / Clinton A. Hutton -- The radical aesthetic of Sistren Theatre Collective, Jamaica / Nicosia Shakes.

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