Fear of a Black Nation Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal

David Austin (Author)

$19.95

Publisher: Between the Lines
Format: Book
Binding: pb
Pages: 256
Released: May 28, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781771130103

In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean–people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country–raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics.
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