The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935–1960

In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental reporting. But as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony’s capacity to self-govern in the 1950s, papers standardized and intellectual debates about racism and colonialism disappeared from their pages.

• | Author: Leslie James
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 16, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674279414
• | ISBN-10: 0674279417