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Caribbean Classics Series No. 2 The Economic Future of the Caribbean by Eric Williams and E. Franklin Frazier New Preface by Erica Williams Connell New Introduction by Tony MartinThis book, now almost forgotten, was first published in 1944 and is now republished for the first time in sixty years. It carries a foreword by Erica Williams Connell, daughter of Eric Williams and founder of the Eric Williams Memorial Collection at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. In 1943 Dr. Eric Williams, a thirty-one year old Assistant Professor of Political and Social Science at Howard University, organized a conference on “The Economic Future of the Caribbean.” Williams, a rising star in intellectual and activist circles, brought together an eclectic and influential group of experts to debate the conference theme. Speakers included advocates of independence for Puerto Rico, leaders of the pro-democracy movement among Caribbean Americans, scholars, diplomats and the top brass of the British and United States sections of the newly-formed Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. Participants discussed the dominance of sugar throughout the region, the need for agricultural diversification, the fisheries industry and the media. They also examined race relations, the future of colonialism and the prospects for Caribbean federation. The proceedings were published under the editorship of Williams and E. Franklin Frazier, Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences at Howard. In a new introduction to the current reprint of the conference proceedings, Tony Martin for the first time reveals Williams’ use of this conference as a major component of his strategy to gain employment in the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. Williams already saw his scholarship as merely a prelude to a political career and the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission presented an unprecedented opportunity for him to make his much desired transition from academia to policy-making. Revealed here for the first time also is Williams’ employment with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), immediate forerunner of the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Eric Williams won a Trinidad and Tobago island scholarship, graduated at the top of his undergraduate class at Oxford University and obtained a D. Phil. from Oxford in 1938. He was successively chief minister, premier and prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1981. In academic circles he is best known as author of Capitalism and Slavery, one of the outstanding historical works of the twentieth century. E. Franklin Frazier, the distinguished sociologist, was chairman of Howard University’s Division of Social Sciences, which sponsored Williams’ 1943 conference. His several books included Black Bourgeoisie and The Negro Family in the United States. Tony Martin is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
A documentary by Yasmin Ross and Luciano Capellli. The Promised Ship is a bilingual documentary that follows the oral history of the Black Star Line, a maritime venture undertaken by Marcus Garvey, leader of the first massive Black power movement of the 20th century. The Black Star Line was a steamship line intended to bring Black people across the Atlantic in search of their lost homelands. The old townspeople of Limon, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, recall the impact this had on the banana barons and workers of the time. Eighty years later, the anchor chain of the Black Star Line, leads to a building in the center of the city...the heart of all community activities and celebrations.... Here, a barber and fourteen fellow officers keep alive the memory of a dream that once moved millions of African descent worldwide.
 Guinea's Other Suns
by Maureen Warner - Lewis
" Thanks to her sojourn in Nigeria, Dr. Warner-Lewis was able to pursue researches in Yoruba language among the oldest people of Yoruba descent alive in the 1960's and early 1970's. Their family connexions and recollections took the researcher back to the end of slavery and the period of indentured labor. These links of 'blood and culture' as she describes them, gives Warner-Lewis's book its immediacy and detail." - Journal of African History
Nascimento explodes the myth of a "racial democracy" in Brazil.
 In
Nobody's Backyard:
The Grenada Revolution In Its Own
Words. Edited by Tony Martin with the assistance of Dessima
Williams, former Grenadian Ambassador to the Organization of American
States.
Volume 1- The Revolution at Home (
Out of print- reprint date
not set)
Volume 11- Facing The World
by Dudley Thompson with Margaret Cezair Thompson. " This short but lively autobiography is full of interest for students of the West Indies, colonial East Africa and Pan-Africanism." John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge, Journal of African History
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