From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments As editors, our greatest debt is to our contributing authors, who have waited entirely too long for this project to come to fruition. In some small way, we hope, their patience and forbearance have been rewarded. As editors and authors , we could not have asked for more diligent and searching manuscript reviewersthanthosechosenbythepress .Theirthoroughandthought-provoking reports pinpointed omissions, uncovered errors of both fact and interpretation , and forced us to rethink many of our assumptions. The reviewers, later revealed to be Lisa Brock and Komozi Woodard, helped to make this a better volume. We remain in their debt. Indeed, Professor Woodard went so far as to convene a workshop, “The Black International: The Haitian Revolution to the Black Consciousness Movement.” Held at his institution, Sarah Lawrence College,theworkshopwasinspiredbythisvolume.Greatersolidarityhathfew in the academy. We are grateful, too, to our editor, David Perry. From our first substantive encounter, at a meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Birmingham,Alabama,Davidposedaseriesofcriticalquestionsthathelpedto framethevolume.David’sassistant,ZacharyRead,hasprovento beawonderful conduit and invaluable resource in his own right. We also give thanks to Stephanie Wenzel for splendid work as project editor, to Margie Towery for indexing, to Mary Caviness for proofreading, and to Ravi Palat for moral and material support. For their many and random acts of kindness, friendship, and solidarity, intellectual and personal, we wish to thank Ibrahim Abdullah, Mark Beittel, Merle Bowen, Joye Bowman, Horace Campbell, Jacques Depelchin, John Higginson, Savi Horne, Lashanda Ingram, David Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley , Ricardo Laremont, Marcus Rediker, Marjorie Thomas, Nigel Westmaas, and Coltrane and Irie Zerai-Che, along with Harpur College, Binghamton University; the Graduate School of American Studies at Doshisha University; the Department of African-American Studies and the Research Program and Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the Black Atlantic/African Diaspora Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. This page intentionally left blank from toussaint to tupac Queen Mother Moore (1898–1997) in an undated photograph. Queen Mother Moore was a legendary freedom fighter throughout the twentieth century, across Garveyite, communist, black nationalist, and pan-Africanist organizations. (“Queen Mother Moore” from Brian Lanker, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America [1989]; courtesy of Brian Lanker Photography) ...