Michael O West
Biographic Data
| ID | 192286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael O West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | O West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Pan-African Fictive Triplet of Malcolm, Lumumba, Fanon: Grounding Malcolm’s Militancy on the Haitian Revolution and Congo’s Counterrevolution Part 2
Note: This is the second part of a two-part article, the first of which was published in the last issue of the journal. Part 1 explored aspects of the interrelated lives, thoughts, and deaths of Pa
Great Historical Document or Just Propaganda? The Atlantic Charter and Global Africa in the Era of World War II
This article explores the impact of the Atlantic Charter, a key World War II era document authored by US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, on Africans and people of African descent worldwide. No sooner had the Charter been released than Churchill, especially, tried to walk it back, claiming that its eight principles applied only to the European countries then under Nazi occupation and not to the colonies o…
A Pan-African Fictive Triplet of Malcolm, Lumumba, Fanon: Grounding Malcolm’s Militancy on the Haitian Revolution and Congo’s Counterrevolution Part 1
The Prophecy of Self-Emancipation: Walter Rodney and the Scholarship and Praxis of De ance in the African World
Decolonization, Desegregation, and Black Power: Garveyism in Another Era
As universal in its reach and aspirations as Garveyism, Black Power came to demand the completion and fulfilment of the visions and promises of decolonization and desegregation. It is hardly accidental that Black Power, for all its global impact, resonated most forcefully in the some of the same areas of the black world where Garveyism was most vibrant, namely the United States, Africa (especially Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana), and the Anglophone Caribb…
Garveyism Root and Branch: From the Age of Revolution to the Onset of Black Power
The Garvey movement was at once an end and a beginning. Although very much a product of its time – the immediate post-World War I era – Garveyism was an end in that it summarized much of the thought and struggle of nineteenth-century pan-Africanism and black nationalism. Marcus Garvey, not so much the man as the metaphor, and the United Negro Improvement Association, not so much the institution as the inspiration, sealed up a certain tradition (w…
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Walter A. Rodney: A promise of revolution by Clairmont Chung (review)
Reviewed by: Walter A. Rodney: A promise of revolution by Clairmont Chung Michael O. West Walter A. Rodney: A promise of revolution Edited by Clairmont Chung. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012. Walter Rodney was born in 1942 in colonial Guyana (then called British Guiana) and died in 1980 in postcolonial Guyana, almost certainly assassinated by the government of Guyana. In a short thirty-eight years, Rodney lived an amazing life, becoming at o…
China, Africa and the Bandung Idea, Then and Now
What does China's rise portend for Africa, and Africa's place in the emerging, potentially Sino-centric, new world order? Will China's engagements with Africa-economic and political-redound to the mutual benefit of both parties? Alternately, will Africa remain a downstream supplier of energy and raw materials, only now more and more to China? Put another way, does the road to African development run through China? Or will future writers, as other…
The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
Explores business development in the Black power era and the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement
Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
Seeing Darkly: Guyana, Black Power, and Walter Rodney's Expulsion from Jamaica
Walter Rodney's expulsion from Jamaica in October 1968, and its consequences, had important implications elsewhere in the Caribbean, especially in Rodney's native Guyana. Recently discovered documents shed much light on the Guyanese reaction to those events, and more broadly on Guyana's reception of Black Power. An exposition of the new documents forms the background to a broader discussion of Rodney's subsequent life and work, up to the point of…
The Struggle for Zimbabwe, Then and Now: Notes Toward a Deep History of the Current Crisis
The struggle for Zimbabwe is coterminus with the commencement of the Southern Rhodesian colonial project, which was part of the larger European scramble for Africa in the late nineteenth century. L
Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940
Carol Summers, Colonial Lessons: Africans' education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918–1940. Oxford: James Currey, 2002, 212 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 85255 953 4 (hard covers), £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 952 6 (paperback). - Michael O. West, The Rise of an African Middle Class: colonial Zimbabwe, 1898–1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, 324 pp., US22.95, ISBN 0 253 21524 2 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe 1898-1965
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
Michael O. West. The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xiii + 324 pp. Notes. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper. Michael West, a sociologist at Binghamton University, has published extensively on Zimbabwean and history. This book is offered as the first full-length study of the African middle class in the former Southern Rhodesia from the creation of the Native Affairs Dep…
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War (review)
Huband, Mark. 2001. The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 376 pp
The Seeds Are Sown: The Impact of Garveyism in Zimbabwe in the Interwar Years
From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980
Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library
Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa
Unfinished Migrations: Commentary and Response
With “Unfinished Migrations,” Patterson and Kelley have provided an indispensable overview of the recent resurgence of African diaspora scholarship. Describing this “rebirth” in light of contemporary concerns with globalization and transnationalism, they usefully update the work of scholars such as St. Clair Drake, Joseph Harris, and George Shepperson, who over the past thirty-five years have provided similar catalogues and calls. Rather than con…
Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa
Even as symbols of Africa permeate Western culture in the 1990s, centers for the academic study of Africa suffer from a steady erosion of institutional support and intellectual legitimacy. Out of One, Many Africas assesses the rising tide of discontent that has destabilized the conceptions, institutions, and communities dedicated to African studies. In vibrant detail, contributors from Africa, Europe, and North America lay out the multiple, conte…
Unfinished Migrations: Commentary and Response
With “Unfinished Migrations,” Patterson and Kelley have provided an indispensable overview of the recent resurgence of African diaspora scholarship. Describing this “rebirth” in light of contemporary concerns with globalization and transnationalism, they usefully update the work of scholars such as St. Clair Drake, Joseph Harris, and George Shepperson, who over the past thirty-five years have provided similar catalogues and calls. Rather than con…
Like a River: The Million Man March and the Black Nationalist Tradition in the United States
This article examines the Million Man March in the wider context of black nationalism, a persistent, though inconsistent, factor in African American life, enjoying wider currency at some historical junctures than others. Those periods when black nationalism resonated strongly among African Americans are called black nationalist moments, four of which are identified here. The Million Man March, with its heavy inflection of patriarchy and black cap…
Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940
Carol Summers, Colonial Lessons: Africans' education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918–1940. Oxford: James Currey, 2002, 212 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 85255 953 4 (hard covers), £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 952 6 (paperback). - Michael O. West, The Rise of an African Middle Class: colonial Zimbabwe, 1898–1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, 324 pp., US22.95, ISBN 0 253 21524 2 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
Equal Rights for all Civilized Men”: Elite Africans and the Quest for “European” Liquor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1924–1961
Between 1924 and 1961 elite Africans in Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) waged a protracted political struggle for the right legally to drink “European” liquor, which had been banned to colonized Africans under the Brussels Treaty of 1890. Refusing to be lumped with the black masses and basing their claim on the notion that there should be “equal rights for all civilized men”, elite Africans argued that they had attained a cultural level com…
Nationalism, Race, and Gender: The Politics of Family Planning in Zimbabwe, 1957–1990
In line with a general tendency of nationalists to hold pro-natalist views, African nationalists in Zimbabwe took a hostile position to family planning upon its introduction in 1957, arguing that it was part of a conspiracy to control the black population. However, it was only after the unilateral declaration of independence in 1965 by the white settlers under Ian Smith that an official policy aimed at reducing African fertility emerged. The Afri…
Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
Pan-Africanism, Capitalism and Racial Uplift: The Rhetoric of African Business Formation in Colonial Zimbabwe
Journal Article PAN-AFRICANISM, CAPITALISM AND RACIAL UPLIFT: THE RHETORIC OF AFRICAN BUSINESS FORMATION IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE Get access MICHAEL O. WEST MICHAEL O. WEST Dr Michael O. West reaches in the Department of History and Afro-American Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 263–283, https://d…
Ndabaningi Sithole, Garfield Todd and the Dadaya school strike of 1947
Like the more well‐known railway workers’ strike of 1945 and the general strike of 1948, a strike by students at the Dadaya mission school in 1947 was an important background episode to the rise of African nationalism in Southern Rhodesia. The two main antagonists in this strike were Ndabaningi Sithole and Garfield Todd, both of whom went on to play important political roles in the colony, the one as African nationalist theoretician and practitio…
Seeing Darkly: Guyana, Black Power, and Walter Rodney's Expulsion from Jamaica
Walter Rodney's expulsion from Jamaica in October 1968, and its consequences, had important implications elsewhere in the Caribbean, especially in Rodney's native Guyana. Recently discovered documents shed much light on the Guyanese reaction to those events, and more broadly on Guyana's reception of Black Power. An exposition of the new documents forms the background to a broader discussion of Rodney's subsequent life and work, up to the point of…
The Seeds Are Sown: The Impact of Garveyism in Zimbabwe in the Interwar Years
Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library
Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa
The Tuskegee Model of Development in Africa: Another Dimension of the African/African-American Connection
Journal Article The Tuskegee Model of Development in Africa: Another Dimension of the African/African-American Connection Get access Michael O. West Michael O. West Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 371–387, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1992.tb00513.x Published: 01 June 2007
Equal Rights for all Civilized Men”: Elite Africans and the Quest for “European” Liquor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1924–1961
Between 1924 and 1961 elite Africans in Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) waged a protracted political struggle for the right legally to drink “European” liquor, which had been banned to colonized Africans under the Brussels Treaty of 1890. Refusing to be lumped with the black masses and basing their claim on the notion that there should be “equal rights for all civilized men”, elite Africans argued that they had attained a cultural level com…
Ndabaningi Sithole, Garfield Todd and the Dadaya school strike of 1947
Like the more well‐known railway workers’ strike of 1945 and the general strike of 1948, a strike by students at the Dadaya mission school in 1947 was an important background episode to the rise of African nationalism in Southern Rhodesia. The two main antagonists in this strike were Ndabaningi Sithole and Garfield Todd, both of whom went on to play important political roles in the colony, the one as African nationalist theoretician and practitio…
Pan-Africanism, Capitalism and Racial Uplift: The Rhetoric of African Business Formation in Colonial Zimbabwe
Journal Article PAN-AFRICANISM, CAPITALISM AND RACIAL UPLIFT: THE RHETORIC OF AFRICAN BUSINESS FORMATION IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE Get access MICHAEL O. WEST MICHAEL O. WEST Dr Michael O. West reaches in the Department of History and Afro-American Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 263–283, https://d…
Indians, India, and Race and Nationalism in British Central Africa
Research Article| August 01 1994 Indians, India, and Race and Nationalism in British Central Africa Michael O. West Michael O. West Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 86–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-14-2-86 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael O. West; Indians, India, an…
Nationalism, Race, and Gender: The Politics of Family Planning in Zimbabwe, 1957–1990
In line with a general tendency of nationalists to hold pro-natalist views, African nationalists in Zimbabwe took a hostile position to family planning upon its introduction in 1957, arguing that it was part of a conspiracy to control the black population. However, it was only after the unilateral declaration of independence in 1965 by the white settlers under Ian Smith that an official policy aimed at reducing African fertility emerged. The Afri…
Crossing Boundaries: Research Notes on South Asians and Africans in Africa, the Americas and Europe
Research Article| August 01 1996 Crossing Boundaries: Research Notes on South Asians and Africans in Africa, the Americas and Europe Michael O. West Michael O. West Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 48–52. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-2-48 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael O. West; Crossing Bo…
Are We Not Also Men: The Samkange Family & African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-1964
Whither Shall We Go: African and African American Studies for the 21st Century: Report on Conference, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth April 2–3, 1998
Other| August 01 1998 Whither Shall We Go?: African and African American Studies for the 21st Century: Report on Conference, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth April 2–3, 1998 Michael O. West Michael O. West Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 134–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-18-2-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions …
Like a River: The Million Man March and the Black Nationalist Tradition in the United States
This article examines the Million Man March in the wider context of black nationalism, a persistent, though inconsistent, factor in African American life, enjoying wider currency at some historical junctures than others. Those periods when black nationalism resonated strongly among African Americans are called black nationalist moments, four of which are identified here. The Million Man March, with its heavy inflection of patriarchy and black cap…
Unfinished Migrations: Commentary and Response
With “Unfinished Migrations,” Patterson and Kelley have provided an indispensable overview of the recent resurgence of African diaspora scholarship. Describing this “rebirth” in light of contemporary concerns with globalization and transnationalism, they usefully update the work of scholars such as St. Clair Drake, Joseph Harris, and George Shepperson, who over the past thirty-five years have provided similar catalogues and calls. Rather than con…
Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa
Even as symbols of Africa permeate Western culture in the 1990s, centers for the academic study of Africa suffer from a steady erosion of institutional support and intellectual legitimacy. Out of One, Many Africas assesses the rising tide of discontent that has destabilized the conceptions, institutions, and communities dedicated to African studies. In vibrant detail, contributors from Africa, Europe, and North America lay out the multiple, conte…
Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
Michael O. West. The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xiii + 324 pp. Notes. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper. Michael West, a sociologist at Binghamton University, has published extensively on Zimbabwean and history. This book is offered as the first full-length study of the African middle class in the former Southern Rhodesia from the creation of the Native Affairs Dep…
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War (review)
Huband, Mark. 2001. The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 376 pp
The Seeds Are Sown: The Impact of Garveyism in Zimbabwe in the Interwar Years
From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980
Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library
Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940
Carol Summers, Colonial Lessons: Africans' education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918–1940. Oxford: James Currey, 2002, 212 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 85255 953 4 (hard covers), £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 952 6 (paperback). - Michael O. West, The Rise of an African Middle Class: colonial Zimbabwe, 1898–1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, 324 pp., US22.95, ISBN 0 253 21524 2 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe 1898-1965
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
The Struggle for Zimbabwe, Then and Now: Notes Toward a Deep History of the Current Crisis
The struggle for Zimbabwe is coterminus with the commencement of the Southern Rhodesian colonial project, which was part of the larger European scramble for Africa in the late nineteenth century. L
Seeing Darkly: Guyana, Black Power, and Walter Rodney's Expulsion from Jamaica
Walter Rodney's expulsion from Jamaica in October 1968, and its consequences, had important implications elsewhere in the Caribbean, especially in Rodney's native Guyana. Recently discovered documents shed much light on the Guyanese reaction to those events, and more broadly on Guyana's reception of Black Power. An exposition of the new documents forms the background to a broader discussion of Rodney's subsequent life and work, up to the point of…
Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
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