Only a few days before the author's death, Blood In My Eye was completed. During an attempted attempted escape, George Jackson was killed by San Quentin prison guards on August 21, 1971. George Jackson was convicted of stealing $70 from a petrol station at the age of eighteen and was sentenced to one year to life in prison. He was…
Race vindication has long been a prominent issue in the minds of African-Americans in the United States... The Haitian Revolution was viewed as a manifestation of race redemption in early conceptualizations of this consciousness in the second decade of the nineteenth century... In his acceptance speech for the office of Governor General for Life of the newly Independent Black Nation,…
"This work studies Haiti at a pivotal juncture in its history, using the Haitian Revolution as a case study example, to investigate the significance of consciousness and identity in the country's liberation fight and construction of nationhood. Black psychology is used to analyze not only the Haitian mind in struggle, but the African mind battling for freedom across the world,…
