The Caribbean Race Reader
From Colonialism to Anticolonial Thought
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The Caribbean Race Reader
From Colonialism to Anticolonial Thought
About This Book
This bookis the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European colonization at the end of the fifteenth century to the period of decolonization in the aftermath of World War II. This critical anthology stakes out the unique contribution made by the region to the global history of race.
The Caribbean Race Reader provides students and scholars of the region with vital access to some of the most important contributions on race and Caribbean society, many of which are difficult to access, and assembles them together as part of a series of key debates.At a time when the searing realities of race and antiblack racism stand out as global, existential crises, this volume both documents the Caribbean's important contribution to global histories of race andprovides an excellent overview of the quest by the region's radical intelligentsia to undo racism's contemporary legacies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Series Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- IntroductionâAaron Kamugisha and Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi
- Part I: Making the Racial State
- 1. The Requisition
- 2. Barbados Slave Act of 1661: An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes
- 3. Barbados Act of 1668: An Act Declaring the Negro-Slaves of This Island to Be Real Estates
- 4. Columbus Was a Cannibal: Myth and the First EncountersâWilliam F. Keegan
- 5. The Idea of Value on HispaniolaâAntonio SĂĄnchez Valverde
- 6. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Proslavery IdeologyâGordon Lewis
- 7. Caribbean Anti-Slavery: The Self-Liberation Ethos of Enslaved BlacksâHilary Beckles
- Part II: The Long Nineteenth Century
- 8. Liberty or Death, ProclamationâJean-Jacques Dessalines
- 9. The Haitian Constitution of 1805
- 10. A War of the RacesâThomas Holt
- 11. Memorandum by Bechu to the West India Royal (Norman) Commission, 1897âBechu
- 12. Political Program of the Independent Party of Color
- 13. Cycles of CivilisationâT. Albert Marryshow
- 14. Haiti, Cuba, and History: Antislavery and the Afterlives of RevolutionâAda Ferrer
- Part III: Black Internationalism
- 15. Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
- 16. Africa for the AfricansâMarcus Garvey
- 17. Black InternationalismâJane Nardal
- 18. The British Empire Is the Worst Racket Yet Invented by ManâGeorge Padmore
- 19. The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USAâC.L.R. James
- 20. â[Black] Women Can Think and Speak and Write!ââClaudia Jones
- 21. The Role of Women in Liberation StrugglesâAmy Jacques Garvey
- 22. Black Power â Its Relevance to the West IndiesâWalter Rodney
- Part IV: Anticolonialism
- 23. The Role of the Black Race in the History of CivilizationâAntĂ©nor Firmin
- 24. Our AmericaâJosĂ© MartĂ
- 25. Race First versus Class FirstâHubert Harrison
- 26. Starvation, Misery and Terror in Dutch GuyanaâAnton de Kom
- 27. Now We KnowâRoger Mais
- 28. Puerto Rican NationalismâPedro Albizu Campos
- 29. Discourse on ColonialismâAimĂ© CĂ©saire
- 30. The Malaise of a CivilizationâSuzanne CĂ©saire
- 31. Racism and CultureâFrantz Fanon
- 32. Suspension of the ConstitutionâCheddi Jagan
- 33. The Social FrameworkâElsa Goveia
- Source Acknowledgments
- Further Readings
- Index
- End User License Agreement