Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey Author: Visit Amazon's Marcus Garvey Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0486437876 | Format: PDF
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey Description
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications (January 11, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486437876
- ISBN-13: 978-0486437873
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
The title should have made clear that the selected speeches and writings of Marcus Garvey cover his years in the US only, from 1917-25. It is very rewarding, from a historical point of view, to read authentic words of that most important public figure, so much has been said, written, and filmed about. Especially, since Garvey remains very controversial and a lot has been misinterpreted to this day.
Maybe as a result of the limited time frame covered, some speeches and writings are lacking, which Garvey is most famous for. Among these are more direct references of Ethiopia and her coming King of kings; that Jesus was black-skinned; Garvey's stand on contemporary emerging africanist prophets in the Caribbean and the US. Considering that the introduction avers that Garvey in some twisted way made positive remarks towards Mussolini and Hitler, the corresponding proof of that is most definitely missing in this book, I might say. All these omissions are responsible for the subtraction of a star in my rating.
The still high rating has to be seen in providing authentic texts by Garvey himself, not necessarily that I share all the views of Garvey. This is not a book BY Garvey, but a compilation of his speeches/articles, made available to the public. To make that clear: I venerate Marcus Garvey for that what he pushed forward, for challenging the racist system, for following up his visions, for being a human of action, for organising incredible international work and for his martyrdom of the contemporary racist judicial system of the US.
Still, he is a product of his times and as RastafarI I am very much aware that both, lacking knowledge and the system's conditioning of all sorts of separation cannot be overcome on a single day or in fact, in a single generation.
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