Kathy Casimir MacLean’s Black Man Hear: The Lifetime of JR Ralph Casimir was simply printed by Papillote Press (July 2022).
Description (and evaluations):
“I wished to put in writing 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, particularly 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 trainer, 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 gentle on little recognized points of Dominica’s march to independence.
“We want extra biographies of this type to be able to complicate a number of the simplistic narratives that so simply take maintain. Clearly it was attainable to be a black nationalist, Catholic, Eugenia Charles-supporting poet! … Superb thought: impeccably researched and stylishly written.” Peter Hulme, Professor of Literature, College of Essex.
“An intimate portrait of a person who devoted himself to the liberation of his individuals.” Geoffrey Philip
“I really feel so a lot better knowledgeable for having learn this ebook!” Margaret Busby
“He strove towards nice private odds to combat for change and respect for black individuals.” Lennox Honychurch
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