Prologue: an autobiography of the biographer -- The personal is political : An introduction -- Caribbean New York -- Ethelred Brown and the Character of New Negro leadership -- Richard B. Moore and Pan-Caribbean consciousness -- Pearl Primus and the performance of African diasporic identities -- Shirley Chisholm and the style of multicultural democracy -- Paule Marshall and the voice of black immigrant women -- Coda: "Garvey's ghost" : life after death.