Related Academic Initiatives
Colin Palmer’s new biography of Williams up to 1970 entitled: Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean, published by the University of North Carolina Press, is dedicated to the Collection. Three other scholarly biographies of Williams either have been published or are in progress in the eight years since the inception of the EWMC: The Elusive Eric Williams by Ken Boodhoo, of Florida International University (and published by Media and Editorial Projects Limited's Prospect Press and Ian Randle Publishers); an edition by Selwyn Ryan, University of the West Indies; and The Making of a Movement Intellectual by Maurice St. Pierre of Morgan State University.
The first-ever Spanish translation of Williams’ History of the Caribbean, From Columbus to Castro (2006); the 2000 republication, after decades, of the same book in Japanese, and its re-issue in the United Kingdom in 2004 after a hiatus of seven years. Also reissued in 2004 was the 1944 book, The Economic Future of the Caribbean – edited by Williams and the respected African American sociologist, E. Franklin Frazier. The Economic Future of the Caribbean is a selection of papers presented at a 1943 Howard University conference that Williams organized. The vision articulated in this work remains relevant to the 21st century Caribbean. To date, the new edition of the book has been launched in Trinidad and Tobago; Washington, DC; Toronto, Canada; and London, UK. The New York launch in 2006, sponsored jointly by members of the Caribbean Diplomatic Corps, also celebrated the declaration of June as National Caribbean American Month in the USA.
A new edition of Inward Hunger, Williams’ long out-of-print autobiography, (with an Introduction by Colin Palmer) is now available. His Negro in the Caribbean (with a new introduction by Winston James, University of California, Irvine professor) is slated for future re-release in the United States. University Press of Florida expressed interest in publishing the proceedings of the New York Schomburg Center Eric Williams conference in 2002 - Into The Post-Colonial Moment: Eric Williams and West Indian Nationalism, edited by Professors William Darity, Jr. (Duke University/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Tanya Shields, (UNC, Chapel Hill).
The EWMC has also supported the inclusion of entries on Eric Williams in: The Encyclopedia of Antislavery, Abolition and Emancipation, written by Joseph Inikori, University of Rochester; The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, by William Darity, University of North Carolina/Duke University and Clare Newstead, University of Nottingham-Trent, UK.
Thus, with its three-time award-winning newsletter and Oral History Project, as well as many other endeavours, the EWMC is a model for the Caribbean, a means of showing to its younger generation the vital connection to the past – what that means for both the present and for the future.
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