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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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. West African and Caribbean press imaginaries
- 1. West African and Caribbean press worlds
- 2. Unruly movements
- 3. Rendering time
- 4. Plotting freedom
- Part II. The press and decolonization
- 5. Organizing the moving word
- 6. Training days
- 7. Responsible self-government and responsible press
- 8. Progress on the page
- 9. The fate of a "political" press
- Conclusion : The shape of Black political thought.