Garveyism in Cleveland, Ohio and the history of the diasporic Midwest, 1920–1975

McDuffie, Erik S.

doi:10.1080/14725843.2011.556793

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“…114 A single division in Cleveland, Ohio, had five thousand members. 115 Many of Garvey's followers had defected from the NAACP. John Henry Ryan, an African American member of the State Legislature of Washington, wrote to Du Bois in 1923 explaining that there was "a bitter internal strife" in the black community in Tacoma and the NAACP had lost favor with many.…”

Section: Constituting a Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between Race and Nation: Marcus Garvey and the Politics of Self-Determination

Jagmohan

2020

Political Theory

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This essay argues that Marcus Garvey held a constructivist theory of self-determination, one that saw nationalism and transnationalism as mutually necessary and reinforcing ideals. The argument proceeds in three steps. First it recovers Garvey’s transnationalist emphasis by looking at his intellectual debts to other diaspora struggles, namely political Zionism and Irish nationalism. Second it argues that Garvey held a constructivist view of national identity, which also grounds his argument that the black diaspora has a right to collective self-determination. Third it explicates Garvey’s further contention that the right to self-determination and the persistence of oppression give the African diaspora a pro tanto claim to an independent state, which he considered essential to vanquishing white supremacy and realizing collective self-rule.

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Section: Constituting a Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%