Papillote Press invitations you to the launch of Black Man Hear: The Lifetime of JR Ralph Casimir by his granddaughter Kathy Casimir MacLean. The launch will happen on the Dominica Excessive Fee at 4:00pm on July 31, 2022 (the ebook’s official publication date).
Description: “I wished to write down Black Man Hear to honour my grandfather and to inform his story as till now it has been omitted from our island’s historical past,” says Kathy Casimir MacLean.
That is the primary biography of the pioneering lifetime of JR Ralph Casimir (1898-1986), a Pan Africanist and poet from Dominica. Calling himself a “New Negro”, for greater than half a century he confronted not simply colonial rule, however his island’s elites. It explores his political activism, specifically his position in Marcus Garvey’s Common Negro Enchancment Affiliation (UNIA) of which he was a founding member, organiser, and likewise agent for Garvey’s Black Star Line. A instructor, bookbinder, and lawyer’s clerk, he was a prolific poet and editor of Dominica’s first poetry anthologies. This finely researched biography by his granddaughter sheds mild on little identified points of Dominica’s march to independence.
- “An intimate portrait of a person who devoted himself to the liberation of his folks.” Geoffrey Philip
- “I really feel so significantly better knowledgeable for having learn this ebook!” Margaret Busby
- “He strove in opposition to nice private odds to battle for change and respect for black folks.” Lennox Honychurch
Black Man Hear: The Lifetime of JR Ralph Casimir, ISBN: 9781838041526
Unique paperback
Publication date: July 31, 2022 Worth: £8.99
For extra data, see https://www.papillotepress.co.uk/
Additionally see earlier submit https://repeatingislands.com/2022/06/30/black-man-listen-the-life-of-jr-ralph-casimir-by-her-granddaughter-kathy-casimir-maclean/