welcome!. jan carew gentle revolutionary: a celebration of his works
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Welcome!
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Jan Carew
Gentle Revolutionary:A Celebration of his works
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Two Jan CarewsIn the Caribbean, Europe and Canada:•Artist, writer, broadcaster, activist
In the US:•Academician and one of the founders of Black Studies in the US
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Two Jan CarewsIn the Caribbean, Europe and Canada:
•Author of numerous novels, children’s books, essay collections, histories, stories and newspaper articles
•Actor with Sir Laurence Olivier
•Anti-colonial activist on multiple continents
In the US:
•Developer of programs for first generations of Black students entering Princeton, Rutgers, and Northwestern U. •Emeritus Professor of African American Studies of NU
•Nurturer of younger scholars of Black Studies
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WriterBlack Midas, 1958 … 2009
Black Midas
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BBC radio: “Caribbean Voices” programwith Henry Swanzy, George Lamming, Andrew Salkey,
and Sam Selvon
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PlaywrightDay of the Fox (TV play) , England (1961)• Show page from
magazine, Sammy Davis Jr.
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Behind God’s Back (TV play) Canada (1969)
• First West Indian play ever screened on the Canadian Broadcasting Co.
• Hired a young Cecily Tyson for the female lead
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Pan-Africanist
Advisor to:•Cheddi Jagan of Guyana, early 1960s •Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, mid-1960s •and Michael Manley of Jamaica, 1970s
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Last Meeting with Cheddi Jagan, (1994)
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Free Robeson and Du Bois campaignslate 1950s
Actively engaged in the campaign to free the Pan-AfricanChampions, late 1950s •Paul Robeson•W.E.B. Du Bois
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With Malcolm X at Magnet launchearly 1965
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With Malcolm X in London
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Nkrumah’s Ghana (1965-1966)
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Carew and Black Power: Canada and US
• Moved to Canada in 1966, worked as writer, journalist, playwright
• Arrived in US in 1968 to do CBC program on culture and the Black Power revolution
• Invited to teach at Princeton and Rutgers, remaining 1969-1973
• 1973, accepted Chair position in the new African American Studies Department at Northwestern University
• Retired Emeritus Professor of African American Studies in 1987
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Jan Carew Legacy: The MemoirsPotaro Dreams: My Youth in Guyana (volume I, Hansib 2014)
Episodes in My Life (volume II, Peepal Tree 2015)
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Jan Carew Legacy: The Poetry
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Cuban Missiles Crisis (1962)
reporting for the London Observer, the only Western reporter in Cuba at the time…
“Raiders: We will Sink the British Ship” “Havana Angry at Russian ‘Circus’” “Like the Yankees…”
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20th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
• 1979 – invited to contribute to celebration of 20th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution…
• Joined some of the greatest West Indian and South American poets to produce a landmark recording of poems
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Jan Carew with Claudia Jones and friends, London