I first came across Tony Martin’s work in the late 1990s while I was reading scholarship about Afro-America and the circum-Caribbean. I was preparing to do dissertation fieldwork in the Anglophone West Indies (Guyana), and I was interested in work that addressed the manner in which race, class, and nation had been thought about by scholars from the Caribbean. Like Tony Martin, I thought that there was an important dialogue of continued relevance that had come out of this scholarship. I was interested in the work of C. L. R. James, Franz Fanon, George Padmore, and Walter Rodney – as well as in some of the issues that arose out of the debates between Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois that Tony Martin has dealt with in such detail.
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