City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York (Caribbean Studies Series),

City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York (Caribbean Studies Series), by Tammy L. Brown

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Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of West Indian intellectuals to investigate the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 40,000 black immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island during the first wave of Caribbean immigration to New York hailed from the English-speaking Caribbean―mainly Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad. Arriving at the height of the Industrial Revolution and a new era in black culture and progress, these black immigrants dreamed of a more prosperous future. However, northern-style Jim Crow hindered their upward social mobility. In response, Caribbean intellectuals delivered speeches and sermons, wrote poetry and novels, and created performance art pieces challenging the racism that impeded their success.

Brown traces the influences of religion as revealed at Unitarian minister Ethelred Brown’s Harlem Community Church and in Richard B. Moore’s fiery speeches on Harlem street corners during the age of the “New Negro.” She investigates the role of performance art and Pearl Primus’s declaration that “dance is a weapon for social change” during the long civil rights movement. Shirley Chisholm’s advocacy for women and all working-class Americans in the House of Representatives and as a presidential candidate during the peak of the Feminist Movement moves the book into more overt politics. Novelist Paule Marshall’s insistence that black immigrant women be seen and heard in the realm of American Arts and Letters at the advent of “multiculturalism” reveals the power of literature. The wide-ranging styles of West Indian campaigns for social justice reflect the expansive imaginations and individual life stories of each intellectual Brown studies. In addition to deepening our understanding of the long battle for racial equality in America, these life stories reveal the powerful interplay between personal and public politics.

City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York (Caribbean Studies Series), by Tammy L. Brown

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1675767 in Books
• Published on: 2015-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .81" w x 5.98" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 298 pages

City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York (Caribbean Studies Series), by Tammy L. Brown

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“Through a series of biographies, Tammy Brown presents us with an incisive and eye-opening history of the collaboration and conflict between Caribbean immigrants in the black melting pot that was Harlem during the twentieth century as they fought for black advancement and political rights in multiple forums including the church, concert hall, stage, and radical and conventional political parties all the while keeping alive the memory of their Caribbean roots and supporting the struggles of the folks at ‘home’ against British colonialism. In a way, Brown shows that these island people became Caribbean people in New York.”

―Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

About the Author Tammy L. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio, is assistant professor of history and black world studies at Miami University of Ohio–Oxford. Her work has appeared in Southern Cultures, American Studies Journal, and Callaloo.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. City of Islands is an Uplifting Celebration of Black People in American History By Aaron S. Taylor If you need any more evidence on how our country has been significantly shaped by people of color, LOOK NO FURTHER. City of Islands well documents and uncovers the often untold histories of our nation's evolution as a melting pot and cultural mosaic.Brown's text follows the lives of various black people, specifically immigrants and descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean, who have contributed exceptionally in a multitude of areas, from political trailblazers to world-renown performing artists and athletes. Instead of dryly accounting history, this book tells true stories with a movie-like detail that resuscitates every life, struggle, and accomplishment.City of Islands doesn't feel like a history book, and I mean that in the best way. It is instead a celebration of black Caribbean people who have left their tremendous marks on America forever.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I enjoyed reading this book and I recommend City of Islands ... By Amazon Customer This is a great book, well researched and well written. Tammy Brown takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Caribbean contributions to racial uplift, anti-colonialism and the civil rights movement. Being an African and a scholar of postcolonial theory, I have appreciated some detail that she has put in analyzing the Caribbean culture and I can see some parallels with most African cultures. I enjoyed reading this book and I recommend City of Islands to anyone interested in understanding the Caribbean culture and general experiences of people in the diaspora. Wathu

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Well-written, well-researched, and colorful portraits of Caribbean Americans By Anonymous In this era of quick scholarship, Dr. Brown has pulled together a very thoughtful piece of literature that profiles the contributions of some of the most significant though under-celebrated Americans of Caribbean descent. Her book reflects the rigor of a serious scholar and public intellectual and is also accessible for a broad, public audience. Highly recommend this book for anyone interested in expanding their depth and understanding of the Caribbean American experience.

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