The department of African American Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. McDuffie's new book, The Second Battle for Africa is now available.
The Midwest played a crucial role in the growth of Black freedom movements and in expanding the ideas of political activist Marcus Garvey in the 20th century. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign African American studies and history professor Erik S. McDuffie examined the importance of the region in his new book, “The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the U.S. Heartland and Global Black Freedom.”- Read the full news article here.
In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and its offshoots.
To obtain further information about the book and where you can purchase your copy, please see our faculty publications page under the "research" tab.