Kevin Gaines
Biographic Data
| ID | 681598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Gaines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaines |
| SIGNATURE | GAINES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Global Black Lives Matter
Global Black Lives Matter Kevin K. Gaines (bio) The global Black Lives Matter uprisings against police violence prompted by George Floyd's murder were connected to a longer history of transnational Black struggles. Decades of antiracist, anticolonial struggle provided the foundation for the massive, prolonged uprisings of 2020, involving more than two thousand demonstrations worldwide and some twenty-six million people, arguably the largest prote…
Reflections on Ben Okri, Goenawan Mohamad, and the 2020 Global Uprisings
The global Black Lives Matter uprisings against police violence prompted by Floyd’s murder were connected to a longer history of transnational Black struggles. As Ben Okri and Goenawan Mohamad and others have suggested, the civil rights and Black Power movements from the 1950s to the 1970s were not confined to US terrain; they were part of a global conjuncture. Protests throughout the Western world highlighted the blood-soaked record of the globa…
Reflections on 2020
In his 1953 novel of ideas, The Outsider, Richard Wright ominously predicted that industrial capitalist society would inexorably result in “the total and absolute in modern life.” Wright did not mean that Soviet communism would prevail, capturing the hearts and minds of Americans. His point was that the West's capitalist democracy was just as capable of slouching toward a dystopian, totalitarian future as the Soviet Union. How might Wright’s pres…
Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
Journal Article Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe. Get access Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 250. $28.95. Kevin K. Gaines Kevin K. Gaines Cornell University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 15…
Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion by Kevin Fellezs
Peer Reviewed
Malcolm X in global perspective
In August 2008, S. Shankar wrote in the Hindu newspaper, “Now the world is full of Barack Obama, but 50 years ago another young, charismatic Black American filled the world in his own way.” That precursor was Malcolm X, who had filled the world with his indictment of US racism and empire. Shankar invoked his memory to argue that the rise of Obama did not signal, as some would have it, the arrival of a “post-racial” American society. Obama had jus…
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X
Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplin…
Of Teachable Moments and Specters of Race
Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History
A discussion of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RADICAL TRADITION, particularly in the post—World War II era, is a subject shrouded in historical amnesia and misunderstanding. One of the most striking misunderstandings surrounding black radicalism—and the left more generally—concerns their interaction and, at critical times, convergence with mainstream politics. It has become reflexive for many commentators to dismiss the black left, asserting its marginality or claiming t…
The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective
The Mighty Sparrow, a calypso performer from Trinidad, sang in1963, at a perilous juncture during the civil rights movement, "Iwas born in the USA but because of my color I'm suffering to-day. " "The white man preaching democracy but in truth and in fact if s hypocrisy, " Sparrow continued, warning that he was "getting vexed." His proposed solution was the song's up-tempo refrain: "So—we want Martin Luther King for President! " Sparrow put his ir…
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
xiv, 342 p. : 25 cm
A World to Win: The International Dimension of the Black Freedom Movement
In 1957, while attending the independence festivities in the new West African nation of Ghana, formerly Britain's Gold Coast colony, Martin Luther King, Jr. achieved the high-level contact with the Eisenhower administration that had eluded him back in the United States. Greeting Vice President Richard Nixon, the head of the American delegation, King said he was glad their paths had finally crossed, “but I want you to come to visit us down in Alab…
E. Franklin Frazier's Revenge: Anticolonialism, Nonalignment, and Black Intellectuals' Critiques of Western Culture
Journal Article E. Franklin Frazier's Revenge: Anticolonialism, Nonalignment, and Black Intellectuals' Critiques of Western Culture Get access Kevin Gaines Kevin Gaines Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 17, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pages 506–529, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/aji028 Published: 01 October 2005
Whose Integration was It? An Introduction
In 1965 the African American political scientist Preston King reviewed Negro Thought in America, 1880–1915, by the historian August Meier, for the African Review, a politically ambitious but short-lived magazine dedicated to advancing the radical Pan-African agenda of the government of Ghana and its president, Kwame Nkrumah. King's route to Ghana was propelled by his conscientious objection to Jim Crow segregation. While studying for his doctorat…
"Race at the End of the "American Century
From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism
Black Studies, Afrocentrism and Coalition-Building: St. Clair Drake's Black Folk Here and There
(2002). Black Studies, Afrocentrism and Coalition-Building: St. Clair Drake's Black Folk Here and There. The Black Scholar: Vol. 32, Black Power Studies II, pp. 2-10
Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana
Research Article| June 01 2001 Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: BLACK RADICALISM AND THE DIALECTICS OF DIASPORA Kevin Gaines Kevin Gaines Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 75–101. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-2_67-75 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permis…
"Not Ready for "Nation Time
A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) & Black Power Politics. By Komozi Woodard. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 329 pages. $34.95 (cloth). $17.95 (paper). Scholars are just beginning to take notice of the phase of the African American freedom movement known as Black Power. It is interesting to note that a good deal of the initial academic interest in Black Power has emphasized its cultural dimensions. …
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
African-Americanand theexpatriatesinGhanablack radical tradition
(1999). African‐American and the expatriates in Ghana black radical tradition. Souls: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 64-71
Uplifting the Race: Black, Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Rethinking Race and Class in African-American Struggles for Equality, 1885- 1941
A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION OF THESE ESSAYS on African Americans' struggles for civil rights in Chicago is their sophisticated treatment of class in an African-American context. Ironically, it is the uniqueness of Chicago's turbulent history of labor strife and racial conflict that, to my mind, poses larger issues of the relationship between race and class within African-American leadership and movements. Known as Sweet home and, more caustically, Up So…
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Assimilationist Minstrelsy as Racial Uplift Ideology: James D. Corrothers's Literary Quest for Black Leadership
THE DEATH OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POET, AUTHOR, AND MINISTER James Corrothers in 1917 might have gone unnoticed if not for brief, yet telling, obituary by W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois marked the occasion as ''a serious loss to the race and to literature, and he went on to describe Corrothers as a man whom not only white people, but the colored people themselves did much to deprive of real chance; yet he made his rugged way. Du Bois's eulogy describe…
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
Journal Article Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century. By Claudia Tate. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. x, 302 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-507389-4.) Get access Kevin Gaines Kevin Gaines Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 739–740, https:/…
Global Black Lives Matter
Global Black Lives Matter Kevin K. Gaines (bio) The global Black Lives Matter uprisings against police violence prompted by George Floyd's murder were connected to a longer history of transnational Black struggles. Decades of antiracist, anticolonial struggle provided the foundation for the massive, prolonged uprisings of 2020, involving more than two thousand demonstrations worldwide and some twenty-six million people, arguably the largest prote…
The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective
The Mighty Sparrow, a calypso performer from Trinidad, sang in1963, at a perilous juncture during the civil rights movement, "Iwas born in the USA but because of my color I'm suffering to-day. " "The white man preaching democracy but in truth and in fact if s hypocrisy, " Sparrow continued, warning that he was "getting vexed." His proposed solution was the song's up-tempo refrain: "So—we want Martin Luther King for President! " Sparrow put his ir…
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
A World to Win: The International Dimension of the Black Freedom Movement
In 1957, while attending the independence festivities in the new West African nation of Ghana, formerly Britain's Gold Coast colony, Martin Luther King, Jr. achieved the high-level contact with the Eisenhower administration that had eluded him back in the United States. Greeting Vice President Richard Nixon, the head of the American delegation, King said he was glad their paths had finally crossed, “but I want you to come to visit us down in Alab…
Whose Integration was It? An Introduction
In 1965 the African American political scientist Preston King reviewed Negro Thought in America, 1880–1915, by the historian August Meier, for the African Review, a politically ambitious but short-lived magazine dedicated to advancing the radical Pan-African agenda of the government of Ghana and its president, Kwame Nkrumah. King's route to Ghana was propelled by his conscientious objection to Jim Crow segregation. While studying for his doctorat…
Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana
Research Article| June 01 2001 Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: BLACK RADICALISM AND THE DIALECTICS OF DIASPORA Kevin Gaines Kevin Gaines Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 75–101. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-2_67-75 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permis…
Of Teachable Moments and Specters of Race
Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History
A discussion of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Black Studies, Afrocentrism and Coalition-Building: St. Clair Drake's Black Folk Here and There
(2002). Black Studies, Afrocentrism and Coalition-Building: St. Clair Drake's Black Folk Here and There. The Black Scholar: Vol. 32, Black Power Studies II, pp. 2-10
Assimilationist Minstrelsy as Racial Uplift Ideology: James D. Corrothers's Literary Quest for Black Leadership
THE DEATH OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POET, AUTHOR, AND MINISTER James Corrothers in 1917 might have gone unnoticed if not for brief, yet telling, obituary by W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois marked the occasion as ''a serious loss to the race and to literature, and he went on to describe Corrothers as a man whom not only white people, but the colored people themselves did much to deprive of real chance; yet he made his rugged way. Du Bois's eulogy describe…
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
Journal Article Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century. By Claudia Tate. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. x, 302 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-507389-4.) Get access Kevin Gaines Kevin Gaines Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 739–740, https:/…
Race and Racism: A Symposium
Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, Robin D. G. Kelley, Joe Wood, Howard Winant, Jacquie Jones, Michael Eric Dyson, Phillip Brian Harper, Steven Gregory, Grant Farred, Gina Dent, David Roediger, Amiri Baraka, Stanley Aronowitz, Lewis R. Gordon, Kevin Gaines, Race and Racism: A Symposium, Social Text, No. 42 (Spring, 1995), pp. 1-52
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Kevin K. Gaines. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxx, 312 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2239-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4543-4.) Get access James Ralph James Ralph Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, …
Rethinking Race and Class in African-American Struggles for Equality, 1885- 1941
A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION OF THESE ESSAYS on African Americans' struggles for civil rights in Chicago is their sophisticated treatment of class in an African-American context. Ironically, it is the uniqueness of Chicago's turbulent history of labor strife and racial conflict that, to my mind, poses larger issues of the relationship between race and class within African-American leadership and movements. Known as Sweet home and, more caustically, Up So…
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black, Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
African-Americanand theexpatriatesinGhanablack radical tradition
(1999). African‐American and the expatriates in Ghana black radical tradition. Souls: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 64-71
"Not Ready for "Nation Time
A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) & Black Power Politics. By Komozi Woodard. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 329 pages. $34.95 (cloth). $17.95 (paper). Scholars are just beginning to take notice of the phase of the African American freedom movement known as Black Power. It is interesting to note that a good deal of the initial academic interest in Black Power has emphasized its cultural dimensions. …
Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana
Research Article| June 01 2001 Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: BLACK RADICALISM AND THE DIALECTICS OF DIASPORA Kevin Gaines Kevin Gaines Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 75–101. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-2_67-75 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permis…
From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism
Black Studies, Afrocentrism and Coalition-Building: St. Clair Drake's Black Folk Here and There
(2002). Black Studies, Afrocentrism and Coalition-Building: St. Clair Drake's Black Folk Here and There. The Black Scholar: Vol. 32, Black Power Studies II, pp. 2-10
"Race at the End of the "American Century
Whose Integration was It? An Introduction
In 1965 the African American political scientist Preston King reviewed Negro Thought in America, 1880–1915, by the historian August Meier, for the African Review, a politically ambitious but short-lived magazine dedicated to advancing the radical Pan-African agenda of the government of Ghana and its president, Kwame Nkrumah. King's route to Ghana was propelled by his conscientious objection to Jim Crow segregation. While studying for his doctorat…
E. Franklin Frazier's Revenge: Anticolonialism, Nonalignment, and Black Intellectuals' Critiques of Western Culture
Journal Article E. Franklin Frazier's Revenge: Anticolonialism, Nonalignment, and Black Intellectuals' Critiques of Western Culture Get access Kevin Gaines Kevin Gaines Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 17, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pages 506–529, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/aji028 Published: 01 October 2005
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
xiv, 342 p. : 25 cm
A World to Win: The International Dimension of the Black Freedom Movement
In 1957, while attending the independence festivities in the new West African nation of Ghana, formerly Britain's Gold Coast colony, Martin Luther King, Jr. achieved the high-level contact with the Eisenhower administration that had eluded him back in the United States. Greeting Vice President Richard Nixon, the head of the American delegation, King said he was glad their paths had finally crossed, “but I want you to come to visit us down in Alab…
The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective
The Mighty Sparrow, a calypso performer from Trinidad, sang in1963, at a perilous juncture during the civil rights movement, "Iwas born in the USA but because of my color I'm suffering to-day. " "The white man preaching democracy but in truth and in fact if s hypocrisy, " Sparrow continued, warning that he was "getting vexed." His proposed solution was the song's up-tempo refrain: "So—we want Martin Luther King for President! " Sparrow put his ir…
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RADICAL TRADITION, particularly in the post—World War II era, is a subject shrouded in historical amnesia and misunderstanding. One of the most striking misunderstandings surrounding black radicalism—and the left more generally—concerns their interaction and, at critical times, convergence with mainstream politics. It has become reflexive for many commentators to dismiss the black left, asserting its marginality or claiming t…
Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History
A discussion of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Malcolm X in global perspective
In August 2008, S. Shankar wrote in the Hindu newspaper, “Now the world is full of Barack Obama, but 50 years ago another young, charismatic Black American filled the world in his own way.” That precursor was Malcolm X, who had filled the world with his indictment of US racism and empire. Shankar invoked his memory to argue that the rise of Obama did not signal, as some would have it, the arrival of a “post-racial” American society. Obama had jus…
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X
Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplin…
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