![]() ![]() Though this book parallels broader trajectories of analysis on North American race, abolition, and citizenship becoming increasingly inextricable from Caribbean historiography, it does not engage this vibrant scholarly conversation. ![]() When a distinguished scholar on twentieth-century Pan-African intellectual, labor, and political history takes up questions central to the Age of Revolutions and nation formation in the Americas, it is further confirmation that an understanding of struggles for inclusion over the past century must be contextualized in the Black Atlantic. Gerald Home has himself admirably contributed academic perspectives to our most pressing social issues. The author of this book has garnered the endorsement of notable intellectual-activists, and hopefully also the attention of an audience that shares his chronologically-and transnationally-expansive engagement with the past to inform their present. (New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2015. Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic. ![]()
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