The moving word : how the west African and Caribbean press shaped Black political thought, 1935-1960 /

A revelatory account of Black Atlantic political thought in the era of decolonization, revealing how west African and Caribbean newspapers invigorated debates about imperialism, capitalism and Black freedom. In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, d...

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Main Author: James, Leslie, 1980-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2025.
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505 0 |g Introduction --  |g Part I.  |t West African and Caribbean press imaginaries --  |g 1.  |t West African and Caribbean press worlds --  |g 2.  |t Unruly movements --  |g 3.  |t Rendering time --  |g 4.  |t Plotting freedom --  |g Part II.  |t The press and decolonization --  |g 5.  |t Organizing the moving word --  |g 6.  |t Training days --  |g 7.  |t Responsible self-government and responsible press --  |g 8.  |t Progress on the page --  |g 9.  |t The fate of a "political" press --  |t Conclusion : The shape of Black political thought. 
520 |a A revelatory account of Black Atlantic political thought in the era of decolonization, revealing how west African and Caribbean newspapers invigorated debates about imperialism, capitalism and Black freedom. In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new west African and Caribbean newspapers printed their first issues. With small staffs and shoestring budgets, these newspapers nonetheless became powerful vehicles for the expression of Black political thought. Drawing on papers from Trinidad, Jamaica, Ghana and Nigeria, Leslie James shows how the press on both sides of the Atlantic nourished anticolonial and antiracist movements. Editors with varying levels of education, men and women journalists, worker and peasant correspondents and anonymous contributors voiced incisive critiques of empire and experimented with visions of Black freedom. But as independence loomed, the press transformed to better demonstrate the respectability expected of a self-governing people. 
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