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By: Davonte Logan
UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Summer Humanities Institute
2. “As the social relations
between black and white are
impossible, and as the whites
are too prejudiced against the
black to treat him as an equal
either socially, politically, or
industrially, therefore the black
man’s only hope of redemption
is the creation of a distinct type
of civilization in his
motherland.”
-Garvey, Marcus Mosiah, and Robert A. Hill. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Improvement Association Papers. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press, 2006.
Print.
3. Leader at an early age
Childhood friends were white
He made no distinction between white and black
Exposed to Jamaica's social hierarchy
Born: August 17, 1887
Location: St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica
Died: June 10, 1940
4. Society structured from a caste system
Whites-dominant class
Mulattos-middle class
Blacks-lower class, considered inferior
5. Name Description
Negro Negro and Negro produce an offspring
Mulatto White and Negro produce an offspring
Sambo Mulatto and Negro produce an offspring
Quadroon White and Mulatto produce an offspring
Mustee White and Quadroon produce an offspring
Mustifino White and Mustee produce an offspring
Quintroon White and Mustifino produce an offspring
Octoroon White and Quintroon produce an offspring
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7. “I had to decide whether
to please my friends and
be one of the “black-
whites” of Jamaica, and
be reasonably
prosperous, or come out
openly and defend and
help improve and protect
the integrity of the black
millions and suffer. I
decided to do the latter.”
-Grant, Colin. Negro with a hat: the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Print
8. Born: August 3, 1832
Location: Saint Thomas,
Danish West Indies (now
the US Virgin Islands)
“New World Negro”
9. Born: April 5, 1856
Hale’s Ford, Virginia
Died: November 14, 1915
Tuskegee, Alabama
Used education to
liberate the Black race
10. Born: February 1, 1834
Location: Newberry,
South Carolina
Died: Windsor, Ontario,
1915
Status of free black men
should be the same as
white men.
11. Established in the United States
Adopted as a law in the early 20th century
One drop of black blood, you were considered black
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13. Marcus Garvey
Repatriation back to
Africa
Blacks stay separate from
whites
Sensitive to the
“blackness” of his skin
color
Du Bois
Migration back to Africa
was absurd
Lower class blacks need
to become more
educated
Colorism does not exist
15. People of mixed race should not be excluded
Include all Shades of color in the Diaspora
Future research on the issue of colorism
16. Dr. Paul Von Blum
Dr. Keidra Morris
Dr. Godfrey Vincent
Samantha Sheppard, Ph.D. (c)
SHI Colleagues, Faculty, and Staff
Tuskegee University
17. Clarke, John Henrik. Marcus Garvey and the vision of Africa. New York:
Vintage Books, 1974. Print.
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Africanism." The Journal of Pan-African Studies 2.3 (2008): 198-208.
Print.
Grant, Colin. Negro with a hat: the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.
Hill, Robert A., and Marcus Garvey. The Marcus Garvey and Universal
Negro Improvement Association papers. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 19832011. Print.
Lewis, Rupert. Marcus Garvey: anti-colonial champion. Trenton, N.J.: Africa
World Press, 1988. Print.
Mackie, Liz, and Marcus Garvey. The great Marcus Garvey. London: Hansib
Pub., 1987. Print.
Taylor, Ula Y.. The veiled Garvey: the life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Print.
