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Negro with a Hat The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
Negro with a Hat The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
by Colin Grant
ISBN
9780195393095
2008
530
Oxford University Press
About This Book
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With
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