City of islands : Caribbean intellectuals in New York / Tammy L. Brown.
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TextSeries: Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)Publisher: Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781626746435 (e-book)
- West Indian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life
- West Indian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government
- Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Social justice -- New York (State) -- History
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
- New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History
- West Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- 305.896/9729074710922 23
- F128.9.W54 .B769 2015eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: an autobiography of the biographer -- The personal is political : An introduction -- Caribbean New York -- Ethelred Brown and the Character of New Negro leadership -- Richard B. Moore and Pan-Caribbean consciousness -- Pearl Primus and the performance of African diasporic identities -- Shirley Chisholm and the style of multicultural democracy -- Paule Marshall and the voice of black immigrant women -- Coda: "Garvey's ghost" : life after death.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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