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Stephens, Michelle Ann. "Black Empire: The Making of Black Transnationalism by West Indians in the United States, 1914-1962," American Studies Program, Yale University, March 1999.

This dissertation begins by situating four West Indians, Cyril Briggs, Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C.L.R. James, within the historical formation Randolph Bourne first called in 1916, “trans-national America.” I argue that the debate between nationalism and internationalism that emerged from World War I and the Russian Revolution, shaped the ways this particular group of intellectuals thought about the nature of modern black political freedom. Specifically, they were forced to imagine political forms that could represent a transnational black community. This dissertation examines the impact of two primary metaphors, Race Federation and Black Empire, on black intellectual thought in the first half of the twentieth century, as seen through the literary, cultural, and political work of these four figures.