The Essential Writings of Robert A. Hill

Collected for the first time, the foundational contributions

of a scholar and activist who shaped the study of Garveyism and

pan-Africanism

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This

volume brings together Robert A. Hill's most important writings for the

first time, highlighting his intellectual contributions to the history

of pan-Africanism. A pioneering scholar and activist, a groundbreaking

builder of pan-African archives, and the editor of the multivolume

Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Hill

remains underacknowledged for his influence on the field. This

collection is a long-overdue testament to his legacy.

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Adam

Ewing showcases Hill's groundbreaking writings on Garveyism, the

pan-African, anticolonial movement that spread across the globe

following World War I. Hill's essays trace Marcus Garvey's evolving

thought and illuminate the resonance of the movement in the Caribbean

and its diaspora, in the United States, and across sub-Saharan Africa.

The volume also includes Hill's writings on diverse aspects of

pan-Africanism, including the impostor figure in diaspora history, Cyril

Briggs's African Blood Brotherhood, the Rastafarian movement, the

fiction of George Schuyler, George Beckford and the Abeng collective in

Jamaica, the theories of Walter Rodney, the life and thought of C.L.R.

James, and the music of Bob Marley.

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This volume not only

demonstrates Hill's intellectual praxis and its roots in his academic

influences and personal experiences but also reveals the breadth,

diversity, complexity, and centrality of the pan-African tradition in

African diasporic politics and thought.

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Publication

of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the

American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the

Humanities.