Brenda Gayle Plummer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda Gayle Plummer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda Gayle |
| FAMILY NAME | Plummer |
| SIGNATURE | PLUMMER B G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toward a New North American History
Toward a New North American History. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 35, numéro 2, 2025, p. 1-211) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Afro - American Response to the Occupation of Haiti, 1915 - 1934
In 1915 the United States began a military occupation of Haiti which lasted two decades. Citing widespread violence, actual anarchy, and imminent danger to foreigners' lives and property, the federal government ordered Marines landed at Port-au-Prince. The landing of Marines in Haiti in the summer of 1915 made little initial impression on blacks. Interest of black Americans in Haiti began in the nineteenth century. Before the general abolition of…
Dark Finance, Dark People
This discussion of Peter James Hudson's Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean focuses on the way transnational banks are revealed to be players of multiple roles in the development of past and present Caribbean economies. The banks were hardly mere stalking horses for imperialism, and their considerable autonomy and self-interest were sometimes at odds with the objectives of both host governments and metropoles. They acquire…
Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State, by Ira Dworkin
Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939
Kwame Ture, the African-American pan-Africanist and leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, once posed a question concerning the possible reaction of African-Americans to the storming of Pretoria by the beleaguered African masses in order to end apartheid in South Africa.His answer was that African-Americans should demonstrate solidarity with the South African masses by striving to act as a catalyst in neutralising any support f…
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940. By Ibrahim K. Sundiata. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 443; 12 illustrations. $24.95 paper. Brothers and Strangers is a provocative and highly nuanced book that deals with the response of people in the West, especially those in the African-American community, to the accusations of governmental malfeasance and labor abuse leveled against the Liberia in the 1920s an…
The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
Book Review| April 01 2017 The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination. By Robeson Taj Frazier. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 314 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 (cloth) $25.95 (paper). Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of Wisconsin-Madison Brenda Gayle Plummer is Professor of History at the U…
Garveyism in Haiti during the US Occupation
The circumstances of the US intervention created space for the Garvey movement to emerge in Haiti. Global criticism of the occupation regime brought Haiti into the global spotlight and encouraged participation in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) by members of an emerging middle class. Haitian Garveyites linked the plight of Haiti under US control to the worldwide prevalence of colonialism and racism during the epoch. UNIA philos…
Race and Power Around the World
Race and the Cold War
This chapter examines the issue of race during the Cold War. It contends that racism was part of a Cold War framework in which states marshaled ideological and political resources against the threat of dissolution and subversion from within as well as from without. The chapter suggests that racial consciousness served a dual purpose during the Cold War years. It explains that proponents of racial equality used democratic ideology to argue for the…
In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974
In Search of Power is a history of the era of civil rights, decolonization and Black Power. In the critical period from 1956 to 1974, the emergence of newly independent states worldwide and the struggles of the civil rights movement in the United States exposed the limits of racial integration and political freedom. Dissidents, leaders and elites alike were linked in a struggle for power in a world where the rules of the game had changed. Brenda …
In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
This original examination makes intriguing claims about the origins, motivations, and practice of interwar black radicalism. Minkah Makalani proposes that anticolonialism in Asia linked international communism with a black diaspora that challenged racism and imperialism. Communism became attractive to black radicals to the extent that it connected Pan-African and Asian revolt to the tasks of eliminating racial injustice and freeing colonies. Aban…
African Americans in the International Imaginary: Gerald Horne's Progressive Vision
Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom
Scholarship on the African–American diaspora in Europe has focused heavily on culture and tends to neglect the way that African Americans contributed to, as well as absorbed, political ideas and engaged in activism in these nations. Many European countries developed strong peace movements because of their uncomfortable position between two hostile superpowers during the Cold War. These movements played a pivotal role in uniting the strands of the…
Restaurant Citizens to the Barricades
Restaurant Citizens to the Barricades! Brenda Gayle Plummer (bio) I Professor Ruiz's loving and celebratory account of the production and consumption of food recognizes it as our most fundamental social activity. Food is a core component of both cultural affirmation and cultural resistance, and of adaptation and pragmatism. John Brown Childs's description of African American cookery can in part be applied to the culinary traditions of any of Amer…
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
At various times in U.S. history, some Americans have fled what they perceived as a culturally stultifying and politically repressive society for greener pastures abroad. For many years, France was the haven of choice, drawing such cultural icons as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Richard Wright. Black writers and artists such as James Baldwin, Chester Himes, and the painter Beauford Delaney found a freedom from prejudice in Europe tha…
Black Ambassador: Andrew Young Appraised
Andrew J. Deroche. Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003. xxiii + 193 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. $65.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper)
On Cedric Robinson and Black Marxism: A view from the US academy
Cedric Robinson's directorship of the Center for Black Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara reflected his genius as a radical communitarian during an era in which the US academy as a whole set itself on a path of increasing cultural and social isolation from mainstream society. As an academic enterprise, the Center mirrors the radical conservationism inherent in Black Marxism's recuperation of the Black radical tradition
Kate A. Baldwin, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1932-1963
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
Book Review| July 01 2004 The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena, Thomas Borstelmann. Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 178–179. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501510 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Journal Article Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940. By Mary A. Renda. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xviii, 414 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2628-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4938-3.) Get access Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945
The burgeoning interest in African American activism in international relations has generated new work on the subject. Marc Gallicchio's study of black perspectives on China and Japan is among the latest contributions to this literature. Gallicchio identifies an African American constituency he calls “the Black Internationale.” His thesis is that “black internationalism,” heavily premised on a racialized world view, failed accurately to interpret…
Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948
The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
Journal Article The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938. Thomas C. Holt. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xxxii +517 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8018-4216-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8018-4291-3.) Get access Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
This original examination makes intriguing claims about the origins, motivations, and practice of interwar black radicalism. Minkah Makalani proposes that anticolonialism in Asia linked international communism with a black diaspora that challenged racism and imperialism. Communism became attractive to black radicals to the extent that it connected Pan-African and Asian revolt to the tasks of eliminating racial injustice and freeing colonies. Aban…
Race, Nationality, and Trade in the Caribbean: The Syrians in Haiti, 1903–1934
turn of the century evokes images of vast sugar estates in Cuba. Although Cuba absorbed the largest amount of American captial in the Caribbean, it was not, however, the only target of commerical penetration. In Haiti, an unusual combination of strategic and mercantile interests led to increasing American influence through an unusual and unexpected channel: the resident community of Syrians. Although a tiny, persecuted minority, the Syrians const…
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940. By Ibrahim K. Sundiata. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 443; 12 illustrations. $24.95 paper. Brothers and Strangers is a provocative and highly nuanced book that deals with the response of people in the West, especially those in the African-American community, to the accusations of governmental malfeasance and labor abuse leveled against the Liberia in the 1920s an…
Garveyism in Haiti during the US Occupation
The circumstances of the US intervention created space for the Garvey movement to emerge in Haiti. Global criticism of the occupation regime brought Haiti into the global spotlight and encouraged participation in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) by members of an emerging middle class. Haitian Garveyites linked the plight of Haiti under US control to the worldwide prevalence of colonialism and racism during the epoch. UNIA philos…
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Between privilege and opprobrium: The Arabs and Jews in Haiti
The historic experience of Arabs and Jews in Haiti has been characterized by mutual ambivalence between host and immigrant. While racism and slavery benefited Semitic‐speaking peoples as whites, mercantilism in the colonial period and nationalism thereafter placed limitations on their full participation in the Haitian community. The traditional social marginality of Arabs and Jews as traders, coupled with the comparative privilege they enjoyed, m…
The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
Book Review| April 01 2017 The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination. By Robeson Taj Frazier. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 314 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 (cloth) $25.95 (paper). Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of Wisconsin-Madison Brenda Gayle Plummer is Professor of History at the U…
On Cedric Robinson and Black Marxism: A view from the US academy
Cedric Robinson's directorship of the Center for Black Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara reflected his genius as a radical communitarian during an era in which the US academy as a whole set itself on a path of increasing cultural and social isolation from mainstream society. As an academic enterprise, the Center mirrors the radical conservationism inherent in Black Marxism's recuperation of the Black radical tradition
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Journal Article Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940. By Mary A. Renda. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xviii, 414 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2628-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4938-3.) Get access Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Race, Nationality, and Trade in the Caribbean: The Syrians in Haiti, 1903–1934
turn of the century evokes images of vast sugar estates in Cuba. Although Cuba absorbed the largest amount of American captial in the Caribbean, it was not, however, the only target of commerical penetration. In Haiti, an unusual combination of strategic and mercantile interests led to increasing American influence through an unusual and unexpected channel: the resident community of Syrians. Although a tiny, persecuted minority, the Syrians const…
The Afro - American Response to the Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
The Metropolitan Connection: Foreign and Semiforeign Elites in Haiti, 1900–1915
While Haiti's economic dependency and poverty are shared by other Caribbean nations, its history of underdevelopment serves as a prototype for them. Haiti's political independence, achieved in 1804, set the stage for an increasingly difficult struggle to survive among imperialist states. Haiti prefigured the modern Latin American experience and thus provides a classic example of how national aspirations in the hemisphere were derailed. Equally si…
Race, Class, and Political Symbols: Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics
Haiti and the great powers, 1902-1915
This book examines a critical period of Haitian history and diplomacy. The author contends that the social, economic, and political decline of Haiti during the early part of the century was hastened by many factors: the growing commercial and military competition in the Caribbean among the great powers; the less favorable terms of trade; the development among the cosmopolitan urban elite of a culture of imitation and alienation from Haitian natio…
Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915
Journal Article Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902–1913. By Brenda Gayle Plummer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xxii + 255 pp. $27.50.) Get access Fitzroy A. Baptiste Fitzroy A. Baptiste University of the West Indies, Trinidad Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 962–963, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936515 Published: 01 Dec…
Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915
Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 . Barbara Bush House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro . Sandra Lauderdale Graham Slave Women in t…
Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History, by Alexander DeConde
The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
Journal Article The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938. Thomas C. Holt. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xxxii +517 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8018-4216-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8018-4291-3.) Get access Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
The Military and Society in Haiti
Journal Article The Military and Society in Haiti. By Michel S. Laguerre. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993. x, 223 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87049773-1.) Get access Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Page 740, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081316 Published: …
Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment
Journal Article Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment. By Brenda Gayle Plummer. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xiv, 303 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-1422-6. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8203-1423-4.) Get access Alfred Hunt Alfred Hunt State University of New York, Purchase, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 313…
Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment
Women and Change in the Caribbean . Janet H. Momsen Researching Women in Latin America and the Caribbean . Edna Acosta-Belen , Christine E. Bose Women and Grass Roots Democracy in the Americas . Dorri…
Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960
"Below the Level of Men": African Americans, Race, and the History of U.S. Foreign Relations
Journal Article “Below the Level of Men”: African Americans, Race, and the History of U.S. Foreign Relations Get access Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 20, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages 639–650, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1996.tb00291.x Published: 01 June 2007
Between privilege and opprobrium: The Arabs and Jews in Haiti
The historic experience of Arabs and Jews in Haiti has been characterized by mutual ambivalence between host and immigrant. While racism and slavery benefited Semitic‐speaking peoples as whites, mercantilism in the colonial period and nationalism thereafter placed limitations on their full participation in the Haitian community. The traditional social marginality of Arabs and Jews as traders, coupled with the comparative privilege they enjoyed, m…
Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960
Journal Article Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960. By Brenda Gayle Plummer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xviii, 423 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2272-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4575-2.) Get access Thomas J. Noer Thomas J. Noer Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, J…
The Racial Dimensions of American Overseas Colonial Policy
Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960
Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948
The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945
The burgeoning interest in African American activism in international relations has generated new work on the subject. Marc Gallicchio's study of black perspectives on China and Japan is among the latest contributions to this literature. Gallicchio identifies an African American constituency he calls “the Black Internationale.” His thesis is that “black internationalism,” heavily premised on a racialized world view, failed accurately to interpret…
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Journal Article Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940. By Mary A. Renda. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xviii, 414 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2628-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4938-3.) Get access Brenda Gayle Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Kate A. Baldwin, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1932-1963
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