ABOUT THIS BOOK
Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redresses the undue neglect of Anglophone Caribbeans--almost 25 percent of the Black population in Harlem in 1920--and their pivotal role in the literary, cultural, and political events shaping the Harlem Renaissance. The poetry, fiction, drama, and essays included explore a variety of issues, such as the increasing emphasis on race and image building, the development of a Black aesthetic, progressive politics, and the struggle to define the status of Blacks in America. Both the literary and political works show the spirit of the New Negro, one emphasizing racial pride and aesthetic consciousness.

Examined closely are those Black and Carribean American figures involved in the Black nationalism movement, socialist groups, and trade unions, including such prominent figures as Marcus Garvey and his two wives, Amy Ashwood and Amy Jacques Garvey, Hubert Harrison, W. A. Domingo, and Frank Crosswaith. Also explored are the developing communist movements as manifested in the writings of Cyril Briggs, Richard B. Moore, Otto Huiswoud, and George Padmore. Essays review the crucial literary contributions of Claude McKay, Eric Walrond, and dramatist Eulalie Spence, as well as historians Arthur Schomburg and J. A. Rogers. This anthology of writers, with accompanying discussions about their works placed in the context of their own time, will be of interest to anyone examining the Harlem Renaissance and the larger Black and Caribbean contribution to cultural and political thinking.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Louis J. Parascandola is associate professor of English at Long Island University and author of Winds Can Wake up the Dead: An Eric Walrond Reader (Wayne State University Press, 1998).

REVIEWS
"In Look for Me all around You, Louis Parascandola has identified, selected and gathered together a wide variety of writings by anglophone Afro-Caribbeans in the United States during the Harlem Renaissance years. Augmented by a fine introduction, this is a welcome and valuable anthology, adding to the growing body of literature on the truly remarkable and enduring contribution of those whom Du Bois in 1920 dubbed "this new Ethiopia of the Isles" in America."
--Winston James, Columbia University, author of Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America.

"Against the background of the complex social tensions of the times, Parascandola's text offers a comprehensive and timely reminder of the multi-faceted contribution of a marginalized community to the most significant cultural and ideological event in New York City's history. Of special interest are accounts of the achievements of lesser-known voices and organs of social activism. Yet again, Parascandola extends the Harlem pantheon to acknowledge the pivotal role of Caribbean artists and intellectuals."
--Carl Wade, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

"Timely and well-edited, this interdisciplinary anthology of Caribbean writings during the Harlem Renaissance era will be indispensable to expanding debates on transnationalism in both American Studies and Postcolonial Studies."
--Amritjit Singh, former MELUS President and co-editor of The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman

"‘Look for Me All Around You' provides a generous, balanced, much-needed collection of Anglo-Caribbean writing from the Harlem Renaissance. The essays, poetry, drama, and fiction, introduced by Louis J. Parascandola's superb discussion of Caribbean contributions to black politics and literature in the early twentieth century, demonstrate how distinctive--and how crucial--the Caribbean contribution to the movement really was. Anyone interested in the Harlem Renaissance will want to own this book."
--George Hutchinson, Booth M. Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor's Note
Introduction

Part 1. Garveyites
Marcus Garvey
Africa for the Africans
The Future as I See It
The Negro, Communism, Trade Unionism and His (?) Friend
The Negro's Greatest Enemy
Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
First Message to the Negroes of the World From Atlanta Prison
African Fundamentalism
The Black Woman
"Home to Harlem," Claude McKay's Damaging Book Should Earn Wholesale Condemnation of Negroes

Amy Ashwood Garvey
The Birth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Amy Jacques Garvey
Whither Goest Thou
On a Trip from Coast to Coast
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Our Women Getting into the Larger Life
Women and World Peace
The Tidal Wave of Oppressed Peoples Beats Against the Color Line
Imprison a Leader and You Boost His Cause
Women as Leaders Nationally and Racially
I Am a Negro--and Beautiful

Part 2. Socialists
Hubert H. Harrison
Socialism and the Negro
Launching the Liberty League
The New Politics for the New Negro
The Descent of Du Bois
Just Crabs
Two Negro Radicalisms
The White War and the Colored World
Hands Across the Sea
Race Consciousness
Prejudice Growing Less and Co-Operation More
"No Negro Literary Renaissance," Says Well Known Writer

W. A. Domingo
Socialism the Negroes' Hope
If We Must Die
A New Negro and a New Day
[Everywhere Bolshevism Brings Terror to the Heart Imperialism]
Socialism Imperilled, or the Negro--A Potential Menace to American Radicalism
Gift of the Black Tropics

Frank R. Crosswaith
Black Man's Burden: Harlem Doubly Enslaved by Color and Capitalism
Toward the Home Stretch

Part 3. Communists
Cyril V. Briggs
A Race Catechism
Dr. Du Bois Misrepresents Negrodom
The Old Negro Goes: Let Him Go in Peace
Bolshevism's Menace: To Whom and To What?
The Salvation of the Negro
The Tulsa Riot and the African Blood Brotherhood
Programme of the African Blood Brotherhood
The Decline of the Garvey Movement
The Black Belt Republic Plan
Richard B.
The Colonial Congress and the Negro
An Open Letter to Mr. Philip Randolph, General
Organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Housing and the Negro Masses
Free the Scottsboro Boys!

Otto Huiswoud
The Negro Problem Is Important
World Aspects of the Negro Question

George Padmore
Gastonia: Its Significance to Negro Labor
Revolutionary Perspectives

Part 4. Literary Figures
Claude McKay
The Harlem Dancer
The Tired Worker
My Mother
Flame-Heart
The Tropics in New York
If We Must Die
America
The White House
A Negro Poet
Garvey as a Negro Moses
Soviet Russia and the Negro (Part II)
A Negro Writer to His Critics
Arrival (from Home to Harlem)
Mattie and Her Sweetman
Crazy Mary

Eric D. Walrond
Marcus Garvey--A Defense
The New Negro Faces America
The Black City
On Being Black
The Stone Rebounds
The Wharf Rats
The Palm Porch
City Love

Eulalie Spence
The Starter
Her
Hot Stuff
A Criticism of the Negro Drama

Part 5. Historians
Arthur A. Schomburg
The Negro Digs up His Past

J. A. Rogers
From Superman to Man (excerpt)
Jazz at Home
Is Black Ever White?
Who Is the New Negro, and Why?

Notes
Index

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