Description
Winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean—people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country—raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics.
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World rights held.
Rights sold: French, Spanish in Cuba
Endorsements
“An extremely important and timely book–exhaustively researched, expertly executed, and beautifully written. Fear of a Black Nation solidifies David Austin’s place as one of the most important Black writers and intellectuals in North America.”
—Barrington Walker, author of
Race on Trial
Author Biography
David Austin is Canada’s preeminent scholar on Black Power and the black Canadian and Caribbean left. He is the author of the Casa de las Américas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Between the Lines
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781771130103
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Pages256
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2013
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