Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

by E. David Cronon

Famous for iconic images of the rural Midwest such as American Gothic , Politics in Missouri , and Baptism in Kansas Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry have long been lumped together under the rubric the "Regionalists." James M. Dennis offers a fresh and sophisticated look at the modernist tendencies of this trio of American painters, arguing that the individual styles of Wood, Benton, and Curry were both mislabeled and misunderstood. Revisiting the artistic and political culture of America between the World Wars, he shows that critics and ideologues from Time Magazine to the Partisan Review pigeonholed, praised, or pilloried the Regionalists to serve their own critical intentions.

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Genres: Biography, Race, Nonfiction, Africa, Anti Racist, Research, Theory

278 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 1960

Reviews

[Lalena · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was first published in 1955 and needs to be considered in that context. The constant references to Garvey as a "short, stocky Jamaican" or other variations on that theme are disconcerting. The author gives a mixed review of Garvey's life and accomplishments. But you mostly end with a sense that Garvey's influence was huge even if on the surface he wasn't all that successful in many of his endeavors.

[Gregory Stanton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book works as a good history into who Marcus Garvey was and why people remember him, his UNIA.

Not a full Bio of Marcus Garvey but I don't think it was meant to be one.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish this book had been required reading for my graduate community organization class. While the writer seems understandably ambivalent in his views of Marcus Garvey, Garvey’s historical impact cannot be dismissed.

[Bookstax · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are better books about Marcus Garvey somewhere, someday...

[NBB]

Good insight...but I've read better about Garvey. This was lacking, but I don't know how exciting or engaging you can make a biography.... but its MARCUS GARVEY!