Black nationalism in the new world : reading the African-American and West Indian experience / Robert Carr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-359) and index.

F(o)unding Black capital : money, power, culture, and revolution in Martin R. Delany's Blake ; or, The huts of America -- Of what use is history? : blood, race, nation, and ethnicity in Pauline Hopkins' New woman -- From larva to chrysalis : multicultural consciousness and anticolonial revolution in Ralph de Boissi ere's Crown jewel -- The new man in the jungle : chaos, community, and the margins of the nation-state -- The masculinization of mothering : the Oakland Black Panthers and the Black body politic -- A politics of change : Sistren, subalternity, and the social pact in the war for democratic socialism -- Geopolitics/geoculture : denationalization in the new world order.

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Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanonical literary works, which in turn illuminate debates over African-American and West Indian culture, identity, and politics. In addition to Martin Delany's Blake; or The Huts of America, Carr focuses on Crown Jewel, R. A. C. de Boissi ere's novel of the Trinidadian revolt against British rule; Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces; Wilson Harris's Guyana Quartet; the writings of the Oakland Black Panthers-- particularly Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver; the gay novella Just Being Guys Together; and Lionheart Gal, a collection of patois testimonials assembled by Sistren, a radical Jamaican women's theater group active in the 1980s.

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