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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Winston James. Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America. New York: Verso. 1998. Pp. x, 406. $27.00.

Winston James has written what will become an enduring classic in the history of the African diaspora. He argues that the history of black radicalism in the United States in the early twentieth century is very much the history of the Caribbean immigrants who came to America in great numbers. The immigrants were a select group: young, energetic, ambitious, and unhampered by inferiority complexes. Their experience of World War I and their confrontation with Jim Crow made many resolve to struggle against racial injustice in their adoptive homeland. 1

The focus is on the period between 1900 and the onset of the Great Depression, when antiracist and anti-imperialist resistance grew more insistent in the international arena. Conventional historiography usually divorces these events from the black experience, but more recent scholarship in African and Afro-American studies demonstrates the linkages between the anti-imperialist impulse in Europe and in Africa and countries of the diaspora. Caribbean islanders did not simply view global upheavals from afar but made major transitions themselves as they migrated from one empire to another. The book includes a study of Cuban and Puerto Rican radicals in New York and Florida during the same era. It compares activists who were driven by an implicit consciousness of race with those who made language and national identity paramount. Finally, in an epilogue that will certainly be talked about, James criticizes Harold Cruse's work on the relationship of Caribbean immigrants to radicalism. . . .

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