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Title Caribbean political activism : essays in honour of Richard Hart / edited by Rupert Lewis.

Publication Info. Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Caribbean reasonings
Caribbean reasonings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Richard Hart's constant quest for political autonomy, decolonisation and regional unity has earned him a space in the annals of history as one of Jamaica's leading nationalist figures and as a vital contributor to the Caribbean integration movement. As a key proponent of social, political and economic transformations in the region, Hart fought arduously for trade unionism, political sovereignty and mass-based democratic political parties among other important issues which advanced the lives of Caribbean nationals. Hart's upper middle class upbringing and his status as a lawyer was never a deterrent to his championing the cause of the ordinary man. For his subversive political beliefs and radical stance against colonial powers, he was imprisoned by the British colonial government in the 1940s, expelled by the People's National Party in 1952, and branded a radical by those who deemed his beliefs rogue and detrimental to their interests in the Caribbean. Caribbean Reasonings-Caribbean Political Activism: Essays in Honour of Richard Hart offers some of the best assessment of the work of one of Jamaica's best politicians, activists and historians. Along with the critical reflection of his work, Caribbean Political Activism :Essays in Honour of Richard Hart also shows the struggles the Jamaican and Grenadian societies faced in the post-independence years of the 1970s and 1980s."--Page 4 of cover
Contents Introduction: Richard Hart's Evaluation of Early Modern Jamaican politics / Rupert Lewis -- Preserving the Record: The role of the political activist/Historian / John A. Aarons -- The logic of Richard Hart's Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: black abolitionism and the agency of emancipated nationhood / Clinton Hutton -- Richard Hart and the 'Resurrection' of Marcus Garvey / Robert A. Hill -- Insights from the 1938 (All Jamaica) economic and industrial conference / Mark Figueroa -- The present in the past: Caribbean economic development since Independence: the 1960s-2000s / Derick Boyd -- Alexander Bustamante and constitutional government in Jamaica, 1944-47 / Robert Buddan -- Seaforth in the eye of the storm: the role of Rastafari in major 1938 events / Louis E.A. Moyston -- The 1930s Labour Rebellions in Barbados and Jamaica: considering violence and leadership in decolonization / Maziki Thame -- The early political history of Wilfred A. Domingo, 1919-39 / Margaret Stevens -- Black Marxist: Champion of the Negro Toilers / Rodney Worrell -- Self-Liberation: the cases of occupied Haiti and the Anglophone Caribbean's Labour Rebellions / Myrtha Désulmé -- Imagining freedom: Afro-Jamaican yearnings and the politics of the workers' party of Jamaica / Obika Gray -- Grenada, once again: Re-visiting the 1983 crisis and collapse of the Grenada revolution / Brian Meeks -- Grenada, Education, and revolution, 1979-83 / Anne Hickling-Hudson -- Foreign policy and economic development in small states: A case study of Grenada / Patsy Lewis.
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Subject Hart, Richard, 1917-2013.
Hart, Richard, 1917-2013.
Political activists -- Jamaica -- Biography.
Political activists.
Jamaica.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Political activists -- Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area.
Labor movement -- Jamaica.
Labor movement -- Caribbean Area.
Jamaica -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Labor movement.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
Genre/Form Biography.
Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Biographies.
Added Author Hart, Richard, 1917-2013.
Lewis, Rupert.
Other Form: Print version: Caribbean political activism. Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2012 976637614X (OCoLC)818413874
ISBN 9789766376550 (electronic book)
9766376557 (electronic book)
976637614X
9789766376147