The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910?920

The multivolume Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers documents the impact and spread of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (unia) and African Communities League, the organization founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 and led by him until his death in 1940. Volume XI is the first to focus on the Caribbean, where the unia was represented by more than 170 divisions and chapters. Revealing the connections between the major African-American social movement of the interwar era and the struggles of the Caribbean people for self-determination and independence, this volume includes the letters, speeches, and writings of Caribbean Garveyites and their opponents, as well as writings and speeches by Garvey, newspaper articles, colonial correspondence and memoranda, and government investigative records.

Volume XI covers the period from 1910, when Garvey first appeared on the cultural and political scene in Jamaica, until 1920, when black workers on the Panama Canal undertook a strike championed by the unia. The many primary documents are extensively annotated, and the volume includes twenty critical commentaries on the territories covered in the book---from the Bahamas to Guatemala, and Haiti to Brazil---and one on the First World War. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910-1920 illuminates the key Caribbean chapter in one of the twentieth century's most important social movements.

A monumental historical documentary and archival undertaking, the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project has collected thousands of historical documents related to Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (unia), which spread Garvey's influential message of racial pride, black nationalism, and Pan-Africanism around the world. The papers include letters, pamphlets, intelligence reports, newspaper articles, speeches, legal records, and diplomatic dispatches carefully assembled and annotated by Robert A. Hill and his editorial and research team. The volumes of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers are organized along geographic lines. The first seven volumes cover Garvey's life and the evolution of the unia in North America. The next three volumes document the expansion of Garveyism in sub-Saharan Africa and among Africans living in Europe in the period between the World Wars. Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910-1920 is the first of the final group of volumes, which covers the evolution of Garvey's movement in the Caribbean and the surrounding regions of Central and South America.

Robert A. Hill is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is Editor in Chief and Project Director of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project at the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.