Adam Ewing
Biographic Data
| ID | 134930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Ewing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewing |
| SIGNATURE | EWING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the U.S. Heartland, and Global Black Freedom By Erik S. McDuffie
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927
Four decades ago, Jeffrey Perry embarked on a project to chronicle the life and work of Hubert Henry Harrison, one of the most important and understudied Black intellectuals of the twentieth century. Perry worked with Harrison's family to collect, preserve, and inventory surviving writings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and diaries, then collaborated with staff at Columbia University to establish a Harrison archive and a Harrison website. He publis…
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism
Pan-Africanism: A History
Journal Article Pan-Africanism: A History Get access Pan-Africanism: A History. By Hakim Adi. (London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xiv, 297 pp. Cloth, $115.00. Paper, $33.95.) Adam Ewing Adam Ewing Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 150–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa019 Published: 01 June 20…
Global Garveyism
Garveyism was carried across the globe following the First World War, generating the largest mass movement in the history of the African diaspora. Throughout Africa and Europe, the Americas and Oceania, the ideas and praxis of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers sparked anti-colonial and anti-racist mobilizations, both within Garvey’s organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and without. This volume—the first edite…
Christopher M. Tinson. Radical Intellect: “Liberator” Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s
Christopher M. Tinson’s Radical Intellect: “Liberator” Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s traces the brief but consequential run of the black radical magazine Liberator, which was published in New York by editor Daniel H. Watts from 1961 to 1971. Critical of the integrationist civil rights mainstream, rooted in black nationalist ideas about culture, community control, aesthetics, and self-defense, and embracing currents of Pan-Africanism, a…
Third World Dreaming
On September 13, 1970, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, and the small contingent of Black Panther Party members stationed in Algiers, Algeria, hosted a reception to celebrate the formal opening of the headquarters of the Party’s international section. The Panthers had been granted diplomatic recognition by the Algerian government, the use of the two-story headquarters, a regular stipend, and other privileges. The festivities were attended by h…
The Challenge of Garveyism Studies
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of work on Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the American academy. Building on a first wave of Garveyism scholarship (1971-1988), and indebted to the archival and curatorial work of Robert A. Hill and the editors of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, this new work has traced the resonance of Garveyism across a stag…
Kimbanguism, Garveyism, and Rebellious Rumor Making in Post-World War I Africa
In the spring of 1921, a young Kongo prophet named Simon Kimbangu launched a revival that won thousands of followers and posed a growing threat to Belgian rule in the Congo. This article examines the dynamic confluence of the Kimbanguist revival and the spread of Garveyism along the west coast of Africa. Scholarly treatments of Kimbanguism have not satisfactorily explained this connection, in large part because Garveyism has been traditionally mi…
Un-American: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution
This is the sort of thoughtful and challenging book that remains with you, that gets you nodding your head unconsciously in agreement, muttering disapprovals, racing to the bookshelf to look up something. It is an essential addition to the canon of W. E. B. Du Bois scholarship. Bill V. Mullen argues that Du Bois's long and winding intellectual trajectory from double consciousness to exilic Communism can be illuminated by investigating his engagem…
African Diaspora
The concept of “African diaspora” has been used as a framework for exploring the existence of people of African descent—both forced and unforced—across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Though often devoted to the pursuit of African cultural “survivals,” recently attention has been more often directed to the ways in which diasporic identities have emerged among black subjects who seek and claim a particular connection to Africa or to each o…
Back to A frica Movement
The desire to return to Africa has remained a persistent theme in the social and political imagination of Africans and their descendants who were forcibly removed from the continent. This impulse and its organizational outlets can be traced from the founding of the West African colonies of Sierra Leone in 1787 and Liberia in 1819, and in the emigrationist movements of Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, Chief Alfred Sam, Marcus Garvey, and others. Althoug…
The Age of Garvey
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. This book presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between the Firs…
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (America in the World)
"Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between…
Muigwithania (The Reconciler)
This chapter explores the extent to which interwar Kikuyu nationalism was forged in the context of broader African rhythms. In particular, interwar Kikuyu activists joined their brethren throughout the continent in pursuing contacts with Garveyist and other pan-Africanist organizers, absorbing the lessons of African Garveyism, and implementing those lessons in conversation with their particular needs, grievances, and opportunities. After the brie…
Broadcast on the Winds
This chapter considers how religious practices had acquired a radical visage, an anticolonial posture, at those moments when they offered a viable means of articulating a conflict, a lingua franca within which both colonizer and colonized might revisit the terms of their relationship. For millennial revivals in southern and central Africa, Garveyism provided this very device. Garveyites sustained, facilitated, and amplified a diasporic field of m…
Africa for the Africans!
This chapter examines the extent of Garveyism's global reach in the aftermath of World War I. It looks at how the spread of radical Garveyism transcended its West Indian skeleton, enlivening the dreams of black men and women throughout the Americas and Africa, projecting a dazzling interpretation of world events and scriptural destiny that built on and paid respect to rich histories of struggle while plotting a new future and a new identity—a New…
The Visible Horizon
This chapter examines the efforts of a cadre of clerks, ministers, traders, and workers in the central African colonies of Nyasaland (Malawi) and Northern Rhodesia to nurture the Garveyite movement behind a guise of cautious reformism and under the watchful eyes of the state. This group founded “Native Welfare Associations” and independent churches, ostensibly apolitical vessels through which to assist the colonial governments in their project of…
Afterword
This concluding chapter reflects on the success of Garveyism in both the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. It considers how the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had offered a powerful ideological and political vehicle for African activists during the dark years of interwar European rule, and how the impact of Garveyism continues to be felt in the continent. In the United States, as in Africa, the efforts of American Garveyit…
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between …
Lying Up a Nation: Zora Neale Hurston and the Local Uses of Diaspora
Lying Up a NationZora Neale Hurston and the Local Uses of Diaspora Adam Ewing (bio) When Zora Neale Hurston set out to construct a journey of self-discovery for her most famous heroine, Janie, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, she chose mud. "My next book is to be a novel about a woman who was from childhood hungry for life and the earth, but because she had beautiful hair, was always being skotched upon a flag-pole by the men who loved her and fo…
Caribbean labour politics in the age of Garvey, 1918-1938
This article examines the impact of Garveyism - the political brainchild of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey - in the articulation of post first world war labour politics in the greater Caribbean region. Garveyism nurtured a platform of race-first, worker-oriented, anti-colonial politics that both gave encouragement to, and provided a language of grievance for, a series of strikes, riots and rebellions after the war. During the reactionary era tha…
Pan-Africanism: A History
Journal Article Pan-Africanism: A History Get access Pan-Africanism: A History. By Hakim Adi. (London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xiv, 297 pp. Cloth, $115.00. Paper, $33.95.) Adam Ewing Adam Ewing Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 150–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa019 Published: 01 June 20…
Un-American: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution
This is the sort of thoughtful and challenging book that remains with you, that gets you nodding your head unconsciously in agreement, muttering disapprovals, racing to the bookshelf to look up something. It is an essential addition to the canon of W. E. B. Du Bois scholarship. Bill V. Mullen argues that Du Bois's long and winding intellectual trajectory from double consciousness to exilic Communism can be illuminated by investigating his engagem…
Caribbean labour politics in the age of Garvey, 1918-1938
This article examines the impact of Garveyism - the political brainchild of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey - in the articulation of post first world war labour politics in the greater Caribbean region. Garveyism nurtured a platform of race-first, worker-oriented, anti-colonial politics that both gave encouragement to, and provided a language of grievance for, a series of strikes, riots and rebellions after the war. During the reactionary era tha…
The Age of Garvey
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. This book presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between the Firs…
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (America in the World)
"Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between…
Muigwithania (The Reconciler)
This chapter explores the extent to which interwar Kikuyu nationalism was forged in the context of broader African rhythms. In particular, interwar Kikuyu activists joined their brethren throughout the continent in pursuing contacts with Garveyist and other pan-Africanist organizers, absorbing the lessons of African Garveyism, and implementing those lessons in conversation with their particular needs, grievances, and opportunities. After the brie…
Broadcast on the Winds
This chapter considers how religious practices had acquired a radical visage, an anticolonial posture, at those moments when they offered a viable means of articulating a conflict, a lingua franca within which both colonizer and colonized might revisit the terms of their relationship. For millennial revivals in southern and central Africa, Garveyism provided this very device. Garveyites sustained, facilitated, and amplified a diasporic field of m…
Africa for the Africans!
This chapter examines the extent of Garveyism's global reach in the aftermath of World War I. It looks at how the spread of radical Garveyism transcended its West Indian skeleton, enlivening the dreams of black men and women throughout the Americas and Africa, projecting a dazzling interpretation of world events and scriptural destiny that built on and paid respect to rich histories of struggle while plotting a new future and a new identity—a New…
The Visible Horizon
This chapter examines the efforts of a cadre of clerks, ministers, traders, and workers in the central African colonies of Nyasaland (Malawi) and Northern Rhodesia to nurture the Garveyite movement behind a guise of cautious reformism and under the watchful eyes of the state. This group founded “Native Welfare Associations” and independent churches, ostensibly apolitical vessels through which to assist the colonial governments in their project of…
Afterword
This concluding chapter reflects on the success of Garveyism in both the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. It considers how the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had offered a powerful ideological and political vehicle for African activists during the dark years of interwar European rule, and how the impact of Garveyism continues to be felt in the continent. In the United States, as in Africa, the efforts of American Garveyit…
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between …
Lying Up a Nation: Zora Neale Hurston and the Local Uses of Diaspora
Lying Up a NationZora Neale Hurston and the Local Uses of Diaspora Adam Ewing (bio) When Zora Neale Hurston set out to construct a journey of self-discovery for her most famous heroine, Janie, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, she chose mud. "My next book is to be a novel about a woman who was from childhood hungry for life and the earth, but because she had beautiful hair, was always being skotched upon a flag-pole by the men who loved her and fo…
African Diaspora
The concept of “African diaspora” has been used as a framework for exploring the existence of people of African descent—both forced and unforced—across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Though often devoted to the pursuit of African cultural “survivals,” recently attention has been more often directed to the ways in which diasporic identities have emerged among black subjects who seek and claim a particular connection to Africa or to each o…
Back to A frica Movement
The desire to return to Africa has remained a persistent theme in the social and political imagination of Africans and their descendants who were forcibly removed from the continent. This impulse and its organizational outlets can be traced from the founding of the West African colonies of Sierra Leone in 1787 and Liberia in 1819, and in the emigrationist movements of Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, Chief Alfred Sam, Marcus Garvey, and others. Althoug…
Un-American: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution
This is the sort of thoughtful and challenging book that remains with you, that gets you nodding your head unconsciously in agreement, muttering disapprovals, racing to the bookshelf to look up something. It is an essential addition to the canon of W. E. B. Du Bois scholarship. Bill V. Mullen argues that Du Bois's long and winding intellectual trajectory from double consciousness to exilic Communism can be illuminated by investigating his engagem…
Third World Dreaming
On September 13, 1970, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, and the small contingent of Black Panther Party members stationed in Algiers, Algeria, hosted a reception to celebrate the formal opening of the headquarters of the Party’s international section. The Panthers had been granted diplomatic recognition by the Algerian government, the use of the two-story headquarters, a regular stipend, and other privileges. The festivities were attended by h…
The Challenge of Garveyism Studies
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of work on Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the American academy. Building on a first wave of Garveyism scholarship (1971-1988), and indebted to the archival and curatorial work of Robert A. Hill and the editors of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, this new work has traced the resonance of Garveyism across a stag…
Kimbanguism, Garveyism, and Rebellious Rumor Making in Post-World War I Africa
In the spring of 1921, a young Kongo prophet named Simon Kimbangu launched a revival that won thousands of followers and posed a growing threat to Belgian rule in the Congo. This article examines the dynamic confluence of the Kimbanguist revival and the spread of Garveyism along the west coast of Africa. Scholarly treatments of Kimbanguism have not satisfactorily explained this connection, in large part because Garveyism has been traditionally mi…
Global Garveyism
Garveyism was carried across the globe following the First World War, generating the largest mass movement in the history of the African diaspora. Throughout Africa and Europe, the Americas and Oceania, the ideas and praxis of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers sparked anti-colonial and anti-racist mobilizations, both within Garvey’s organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and without. This volume—the first edite…
Christopher M. Tinson. Radical Intellect: “Liberator” Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s
Christopher M. Tinson’s Radical Intellect: “Liberator” Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s traces the brief but consequential run of the black radical magazine Liberator, which was published in New York by editor Daniel H. Watts from 1961 to 1971. Critical of the integrationist civil rights mainstream, rooted in black nationalist ideas about culture, community control, aesthetics, and self-defense, and embracing currents of Pan-Africanism, a…
Pan-Africanism: A History
Journal Article Pan-Africanism: A History Get access Pan-Africanism: A History. By Hakim Adi. (London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xiv, 297 pp. Cloth, $115.00. Paper, $33.95.) Adam Ewing Adam Ewing Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 150–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa019 Published: 01 June 20…
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927
Four decades ago, Jeffrey Perry embarked on a project to chronicle the life and work of Hubert Henry Harrison, one of the most important and understudied Black intellectuals of the twentieth century. Perry worked with Harrison's family to collect, preserve, and inventory surviving writings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and diaries, then collaborated with staff at Columbia University to establish a Harrison archive and a Harrison website. He publis…
The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the U.S. Heartland, and Global Black Freedom By Erik S. McDuffie
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