Garveyism linked black US economic strength to the redemption of Africa

Evidence

Second, he saw the black population of the United States not only in the “selfhelp” terms of Washington, but as a vanguard for Africa’s redemption… He believed that if the Negroes were economically strong in the United States, they would be able to redeem Africa and establish a worldwide confraternity of black people. (Essien- Udom 1962, 50) For all its excesses and errors, the most notorious being its derelict business practices and its rapprochement with the Ku Klux Klan, the Garvey movement represents one of the founding pillars of modern Pan- Africanism, and stands as a crucial source for much other black nationalism as well. Indeed, it still represents the highwater mark of mass black political mobilization, rivaled only by the movements of the 1960s. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 92

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism; Garvey reasoned from pessimism about New World blacks toward African return — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2235; Arising Black American intellectuals could channel expansionist influence into Africa. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 315
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism; Garvey reasoned from pessimism about New World blacks toward African return — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2235; Arising Black American intellectuals could channel expansionist influence into Africa. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 315