Lloyd McCarthy Lloyd McCarthy is the author of the book “In-Dependence” From Bondage. He is also a practicing urban and regional planning consultant. Lloyd holds a Master of Arts degree from North Carolina State University, with a focus on African Diaspora Affairs and political science. He received his Bachelors degree in Planning from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Virginia Citizen's Planning Association Outstanding Student Award in 1991. In 1988, he received the United States Agency for International Development, Presidential Training Initiative for the Island Caribbean Award. While at North Carolina State University, he served as Teaching Assistant for three courses in Africana Studies. Lloyd is a former Jamaican public servant, having held the titles of Director of Land Policy in the Office of the Prime Minister and Senior Director of Land Administration in the Ministry of Housing and Environment. While serving in this public capacity, his personal and professional orientation was towards instituting policies and programs to empower low-income and dispossessed communities. He was also instrumental in initiating the preparation of an involuntary resettlement policy for Jamaica and co-edited a publication on Involuntary Resettlement: Experiences from Developing Countries. The result of Lloyd’s academic development and experience is expressed in a uniquely honest and insightful perspective on the impact of arts and politics on African Diaspora affairs through the scholarly works of two legendary Afro-Caribbeans of the 20th century—Claude McKay and Michael Manley. Lloyd currently resides in Raleigh, NC with his wife (Schatzi) and two sons (Jela-ni and Jamar). |
In-Dependence from Bondage: Claude McKay and Michael Manley: Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations
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Synopsis: In-Dependence From Bondage, Lloyd McCarthy s new book on the worldviews of the famous Harlem Renaissance Poet, Claude McKay, and the world renowned Afro-Caribbean Socialist from Michael Manley is released by the publisher, Africa World Press. The book is intended for readers with an interest in African Diaspora political relations, literature, intellectual history, biographical narratives and globalization. It will also meet the needs of general readers and students with an interest in policy planning, international relations and the intersection of art and politics. According to William M. Harris, Sr., FAICP, PhD, [MIT s] Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor, a former professor in the School of Architecture and Planning , In-Dependence is an important presentation that is scholarly offered as viewed through the eyes of two important social change agents. Both Claude McKay and Michael Manley provided leadership and insightful meaning to the exploitation of peoples of African descent in the Western Hemisphere. While the book focuses primarily upon the Jamaican context, the book is rich in its relevance to the social, political, and economic situation of the African Diaspora everywhere. The author effectively integrates history and currency in exploring and describing the motivations, impacts, and proposed corrective strategies that are central to combating white racism, classism, and western imperialism. Deidre Crumbley, PhD, Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Division North Carolina State University concurs with Dr. Harris and states that, McCarthy s work is methodologically interdisciplinary in that it explores the political implications of biographical narrative as it intersects with intellectual history. It is also interdisciplinary by virtue of the persons McCarthy examines; McKay was an artist whose life was one of expanding political awareness and Manley was a the head-of-state whose triumphs and tragedies on the international political stage bring to mind classical Greek drama. Too often production of knowledge about the African Diaspora entails the accretion of cultural-historical pastiches i.e. the Afro-American story, the Afro-Columbian story, the, the Guyana story etc. McCarthy s book avoids such over particularization by not only exploring African Diaspora experiences in North America and in the Caribbean, but also by exploring the lives of two Jamaicans living in the respective settings, who address the African Diaspora in global terms that both embrace and transcend local issues. |