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Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 8)

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Dr. Tony Martin has provided an in-depth historical account and analysis of Marcus Garvey's heroic agitation on behalf of African people's freedom world-wide.

Dr. Martin effectively conveys a sense of the profound mission on which Marcus Garvey launched himself and his organization, the UNIA. Garvey understood the importance of psychology as well as economics and Dr. Martin's book describes his efforts, successful and unsuccessful, to achieve his very ambitious goals.

"Race First", for example, lists the states and countries that were the homes of the 996 chapters of the UNIA on five continents and in the Caribbean. Dr. Martin also describes how the U.S. and colonial governments conspired to block the UNIA's program and even the distribution of its newspaper (printed in three languages).

This book is indispensable to understanding modern American, African and world history and especially to understanding the "Black/African Nationalist" impulse of Africans in the Diaspora.

I read this book several years ago and was so impressed with the research, the detail, the style and the care that Tony Martin took to tell the Marcus Garvey story.

It is a wonderfully balanced look at his successes, his failures, his faith in God and most of all his impact on our nation.

I highly recommend this to history lovers of all backgrounds. You won't be disappointed.

RACE First, is a book that is needed to effectively analyze Marcus Garvey's aims, plans, and goals for the UNIA and the Afrikan Diaspora. Tony Martin has done thorough research into the ideologies, conspiracies, enemies, mistakes, and dreams of this once mighty organization. This book needs to be added to any Afrikan's library concerning self-reliance, self-betterment, and Afrikan history. This book, along with Garvey's Philosophies and Opinions should be right next to Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. Learn and enjoy!

This book is so drenched in incense I've been unable to read it. I actually have it in a zip loc. So, I can't say anything about the book but I can say, I would not buy again from this distributor.