Erik S Mcduffie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik S Mcduffie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcduffie |
| SIGNATURE | MCDUFFIE E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“The Second Battle for Africa Has Begun”: Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., Garveyism, Liberia, and the Diasporic Midwest, 1966–1978
This chapter examines the underappreciated impact of Garveyism in shaping Liberian politics and life during the 1970s. This work was spearheaded by Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., a dynamic Chicago-born African American leader, who relocated to Monrovia in 1966 and headed the local division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) until his passing in 1978. Through the local division, and through the Marcus Garvey Memorial Institute, a…
The Diasporic Journeys of Louise Little: Grassroots Garveyism, the Midwest, and Community Feminism
This article demonstrates the importance of women in leading Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) at the grassroots level, the ways Garveyite women forged “community feminism,” and the understudied importance of the U.S. Midwest and Canada as key sites of diasporic protest through the life, activism, and legacy of Malcolm X’s mother, Louise Langdon Norton Little. Born in Grenada in 1900, Little stands as a major figure i…
Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946
Chicago, Garveyism, and the history of the diasporic Midwest
This article analyses the dynamic history of Garveyism in Chicago, Illinois (USA). The Jamaican black nationalist Marcus Garvey's message of racial pride, African redemption, and black self-determination electrified black Chicagoans. Thousands of blacks in this Midwestern industrial city joined Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). At its peak in the early 1920s, the UNIA claimed six million members worldwide. Chicago was highl…
If you're in a country that's progressive, the woman is progressive: Black Women Radicals and The Making of the Politics and Legacy of Malcolm X
This article examines the crucial but understudied role black women radicals such as Vicki Garvin, Louise Little, Betty Shabazz, and Queen Mother Audley Moore played in shaping the black revolutionary politics and legacy of Malcolm X. Dynamic activist-intellectuals, these women's collaborations with Malcolm X speak to the importance of black women in the making of the black radical tradition
Obama, the World, and Africa: Thoughts on African American Politics and the 2012 Presidential Election
The article discusses President Barack Obama's troubling foreign policy as it relates to Africa and the Arab Spring; the apparent disinterest amongst African Americans in U.S. military intervention in Libya and unrest in Mali; and the need for building new, internationally focused Black movements in the United States as we look to and beyond the 2012 presidential election
Garveyism in Cleveland, Ohio and the history of the diasporic Midwest, 1920–1975
This article explores the history of the Garvey movement in Cleveland, Ohio (United States). Captivated by Jamaican Marcus Garvey's message of race pride and black self-determination, thousands of working-class black Clevelanders joined his transnational Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). At its peak in the early 1920s, the UNIA claimed 6 million members worldwide. Following Garvey's death in 1940, the UNIA relocated its world headqu…
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
Part II"Imagine," utters the narrator." It's 1945.The War is over, you've come back, and we're fixing up our swell new place."This historical hypothetical in activist and writer Barbara Smith's short story "Home" is met with loving laughter from her lover Leila."You're so crazy," she cried."You can bet whoever lived here in 1945 wasn't colored or two women either.""How do you know?" the narrator retorts."Maybe they got together when their husband…
Black and Red: Black Liberation, the Cold War, and the Horne Thesis
I wanted a Communist philosophy, but I wanted us to have a chance to organize our people’: The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore and the origins of black power
This article charts the extraordinary life and legacy of ‘Queen Mother’ Audley Moore (1898–1997). She was one of the most revered figures in twentieth-century black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism. A life-long Garveyite and a leading personality in the World War II-era Harlem Communist Party, she understood black women across the diaspora as the vanguard in struggles for self-determination. She broke from the Communist Party in 1950, r…
The March of Young Southern Black Women: Esther Cooper Jackson, Black Left Feminism, and the Personal and Political Costs of Cold War Repression
Esther Cooper Jackson was uneasy. Someone was knocking on the front door of her apartment in the predominately black Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Was it the FBI, she wondered? For seven months, agents had been trailing her and her two daughters wherever they went, in search of her missing husband, James E. Jackson, Jr., a black U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) leader and a longtime advocate for racial justice and equality Jackson had gone …
Esther V. Cooper's “The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism”: Black Left Feminism and the Popular Front
"A "New Freedom Movement of Negro Women: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War
This article critically examines the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a short-lived black women's radical protest organization, and its human rights agenda during the early Cold War. The first and only group in the Communist Left led by African American women, the Sojourners formulated a black left feminism, a distinct politics that combined Communist Party positions on race, gender, and class with black nationalism and black radical women's own…
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
Part II"Imagine," utters the narrator." It's 1945.The War is over, you've come back, and we're fixing up our swell new place."This historical hypothetical in activist and writer Barbara Smith's short story "Home" is met with loving laughter from her lover Leila."You're so crazy," she cried."You can bet whoever lived here in 1945 wasn't colored or two women either.""How do you know?" the narrator retorts."Maybe they got together when their husband…
"A "New Freedom Movement of Negro Women: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War
This article critically examines the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a short-lived black women's radical protest organization, and its human rights agenda during the early Cold War. The first and only group in the Communist Left led by African American women, the Sojourners formulated a black left feminism, a distinct politics that combined Communist Party positions on race, gender, and class with black nationalism and black radical women's own…
I wanted a Communist philosophy, but I wanted us to have a chance to organize our people’: The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore and the origins of black power
This article charts the extraordinary life and legacy of ‘Queen Mother’ Audley Moore (1898–1997). She was one of the most revered figures in twentieth-century black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism. A life-long Garveyite and a leading personality in the World War II-era Harlem Communist Party, she understood black women across the diaspora as the vanguard in struggles for self-determination. She broke from the Communist Party in 1950, r…
The Diasporic Journeys of Louise Little: Grassroots Garveyism, the Midwest, and Community Feminism
This article demonstrates the importance of women in leading Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) at the grassroots level, the ways Garveyite women forged “community feminism,” and the understudied importance of the U.S. Midwest and Canada as key sites of diasporic protest through the life, activism, and legacy of Malcolm X’s mother, Louise Langdon Norton Little. Born in Grenada in 1900, Little stands as a major figure i…
Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946
Chicago, Garveyism, and the history of the diasporic Midwest
This article analyses the dynamic history of Garveyism in Chicago, Illinois (USA). The Jamaican black nationalist Marcus Garvey's message of racial pride, African redemption, and black self-determination electrified black Chicagoans. Thousands of blacks in this Midwestern industrial city joined Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). At its peak in the early 1920s, the UNIA claimed six million members worldwide. Chicago was highl…
Obama, the World, and Africa: Thoughts on African American Politics and the 2012 Presidential Election
The article discusses President Barack Obama's troubling foreign policy as it relates to Africa and the Arab Spring; the apparent disinterest amongst African Americans in U.S. military intervention in Libya and unrest in Mali; and the need for building new, internationally focused Black movements in the United States as we look to and beyond the 2012 presidential election
Esther V. Cooper's “The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism”: Black Left Feminism and the Popular Front
"A "New Freedom Movement of Negro Women: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War
This article critically examines the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a short-lived black women's radical protest organization, and its human rights agenda during the early Cold War. The first and only group in the Communist Left led by African American women, the Sojourners formulated a black left feminism, a distinct politics that combined Communist Party positions on race, gender, and class with black nationalism and black radical women's own…
The March of Young Southern Black Women: Esther Cooper Jackson, Black Left Feminism, and the Personal and Political Costs of Cold War Repression
Esther Cooper Jackson was uneasy. Someone was knocking on the front door of her apartment in the predominately black Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Was it the FBI, she wondered? For seven months, agents had been trailing her and her two daughters wherever they went, in search of her missing husband, James E. Jackson, Jr., a black U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) leader and a longtime advocate for racial justice and equality Jackson had gone …
I wanted a Communist philosophy, but I wanted us to have a chance to organize our people’: The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore and the origins of black power
This article charts the extraordinary life and legacy of ‘Queen Mother’ Audley Moore (1898–1997). She was one of the most revered figures in twentieth-century black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism. A life-long Garveyite and a leading personality in the World War II-era Harlem Communist Party, she understood black women across the diaspora as the vanguard in struggles for self-determination. She broke from the Communist Party in 1950, r…
Garveyism in Cleveland, Ohio and the history of the diasporic Midwest, 1920–1975
This article explores the history of the Garvey movement in Cleveland, Ohio (United States). Captivated by Jamaican Marcus Garvey's message of race pride and black self-determination, thousands of working-class black Clevelanders joined his transnational Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). At its peak in the early 1920s, the UNIA claimed 6 million members worldwide. Following Garvey's death in 1940, the UNIA relocated its world headqu…
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
Part II"Imagine," utters the narrator." It's 1945.The War is over, you've come back, and we're fixing up our swell new place."This historical hypothetical in activist and writer Barbara Smith's short story "Home" is met with loving laughter from her lover Leila."You're so crazy," she cried."You can bet whoever lived here in 1945 wasn't colored or two women either.""How do you know?" the narrator retorts."Maybe they got together when their husband…
Black and Red: Black Liberation, the Cold War, and the Horne Thesis
Obama, the World, and Africa: Thoughts on African American Politics and the 2012 Presidential Election
The article discusses President Barack Obama's troubling foreign policy as it relates to Africa and the Arab Spring; the apparent disinterest amongst African Americans in U.S. military intervention in Libya and unrest in Mali; and the need for building new, internationally focused Black movements in the United States as we look to and beyond the 2012 presidential election
If you're in a country that's progressive, the woman is progressive: Black Women Radicals and The Making of the Politics and Legacy of Malcolm X
This article examines the crucial but understudied role black women radicals such as Vicki Garvin, Louise Little, Betty Shabazz, and Queen Mother Audley Moore played in shaping the black revolutionary politics and legacy of Malcolm X. Dynamic activist-intellectuals, these women's collaborations with Malcolm X speak to the importance of black women in the making of the black radical tradition
Chicago, Garveyism, and the history of the diasporic Midwest
This article analyses the dynamic history of Garveyism in Chicago, Illinois (USA). The Jamaican black nationalist Marcus Garvey's message of racial pride, African redemption, and black self-determination electrified black Chicagoans. Thousands of blacks in this Midwestern industrial city joined Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). At its peak in the early 1920s, the UNIA claimed six million members worldwide. Chicago was highl…
The Diasporic Journeys of Louise Little: Grassroots Garveyism, the Midwest, and Community Feminism
This article demonstrates the importance of women in leading Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) at the grassroots level, the ways Garveyite women forged “community feminism,” and the understudied importance of the U.S. Midwest and Canada as key sites of diasporic protest through the life, activism, and legacy of Malcolm X’s mother, Louise Langdon Norton Little. Born in Grenada in 1900, Little stands as a major figure i…
Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946
“The Second Battle for Africa Has Begun”: Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., Garveyism, Liberia, and the Diasporic Midwest, 1966–1978
This chapter examines the underappreciated impact of Garveyism in shaping Liberian politics and life during the 1970s. This work was spearheaded by Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., a dynamic Chicago-born African American leader, who relocated to Monrovia in 1966 and headed the local division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) until his passing in 1978. Through the local division, and through the Marcus Garvey Memorial Institute, a…
Political science (13 works) · Race, History, and American Society (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · American History and Culture (6 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works)