The Garvey Movement and Black Nationalism

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This paper examines how the term 'Black Nationalism' emerged as a sociological phenomenon for African-Americans in the early 20th century and how at the heart of this movement was Marcus Garvey with the U.N.I.A. and the 'Negro World.' It looks at how, although there is no dispute that Garvey was a key figure in Black Nationalist politics of this era, the extent to which Garvey-ism established Black Nationalism either as a practical strategy or as an ideal for African-Americans, is open for discussion.

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"The Black Nationalist ideals of the Garvey Movement became practical strategy through the organization's economic programme. Garvey envisaged that real political freedom would only be realized by an independent economic base. Garvey called for African Americans to 'go out and acquit ourselves like men in the economic arena.' Independence with 'emphasis on race first, self-reliance and nationhood' would first have to be an economic independence. Garveyism sought to awaken the millions of blacks in the U.S., the Americas, Africa and elsewhere into one vast diaspora of production, trade and political co-operation, with eventual autonomy for the black race."

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