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phd student english @cornell /journalist x w. africa @middleeasteye @guardian @telegraph @aljazeera @bbc @vice @c4dispatches @jacobin /caribbean-ist/londoner
Jan 27, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
I don't think it's anyone's place to claim a monopoly on Blackness in the Americas when an estimated 40% of African captives to survive the middle passage arrived in the Caribbean and 45% in Brazil. 4-6% made it to the United States. (Thread) What would US Black culture be without its Black immigrants? They've been at heart of every major epoch of politics and culture.

Harlem Renaissance: Hubert Harrison (St. Croix), Claude McKay (Jamaica), Arturo Schomburg (P. Rico), Marcus Garvey (Jamaica), Cyrill Briggs (Nevis)