Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: The Revolutionary Life and Selected Writings of W. A. Domingo (Pluto Press, July 2025), edited by Peter Hulme and Leslie James, is the first biography and collected writings of one of the leading Caribbean anti-colonialists of the twentieth century, Wilfred Adolphus Domingo (1889-1968).
Merle Collins (author of Ocean Stirrings) writes, “Fascinating exploration of a controversial figure. Friend of Garvey in the early days, a thought-provoking critic of Garvey later on. W. A. Domingo was not a federalist. An independent thinker. Jamaican nationalist. Thought-provoking perspectives on what would now be called a Caribbean story. An informative and important read.”
Paul Gilroy (Emeritus Professor of Humanities, University College London) says, “This astonishing compendium is a valuable corrective to parochial conceptions of the ‘black radical tradition’. It places the prolific work of Wilfred A. Domingo back in the centre of the history of anticolonial politics.”
Description: The first complete account of the life and work of Wilfred Adolphus Domingo (1889-1968), one of the most significant West Indian anti-colonialists of the twentieth century.
When W. A. Domingo died in 1968, the Jamaican ex-premier Norman Manley wrote that ‘no one in the world made greater sacrifices or suffered more for the cause he believed in—the cause of freedom for Jamaica and our escape from the bonds and fetters of British Imperialism.’ Despite this claim, Domingo has remained a shadowy figure. This book brings him, at last, into the foreground of anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean.
The book looks at Domingo’s ideological tenets and political commitments at various stages in his life. Each section contains a substantial introduction followed by a selection of Domingo’s writings, including new biographical information which sheds light on Domingo’s early years as well as on his relationships with Marcus Garvey and the Communist movement.
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