Negro with a Hat (Häftad)
avColin Grant
ISBN: 9780099501459 - UTGIVEN: 2009-01At one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. This title chronicles Garvey's life, the failed business ventures, his misguided negotiations with the Ku Klux Klan, the two wives and the premature obituaries that contributed to h[...]
Bageye at the Wheel (Häftad)
avColin Grant
ISBN: 9780099552390 - UTGIVEN: 2013-04To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight's, he is always known as Bageye. There aren't very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather at Mrs Knight's - Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots - each has his nickname.[...]
Negro with a Hat (Häftad)
avColin Grant
ISBN: 9780195393095 - UTGIVEN: 2010-04New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Leni[...]
The Natural Mystics (Inbunden)
avColin Grant
ISBN: 9780393081176 - UTGIVEN: 2011-06Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers one of the most influential groups in popular music. Colin Grant presents a lively history of this remarkable band from [...]
