...Christian Høgsbjerg Abstract This essay explores the Black Trinidadian revolutionary historian C. L. R. James’s little-theorized engagement with questions of the environment and natural world from the 1930s to the 1980s, situating this within his wider oeuvre as a Marxist who not only experienced...

... of Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C. L. R. James (1997) and Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003). He is also the associate editor of the Caribbean journal Small Axe. Lisa Brock is chair of the liberal...

... of the modern twentieth century. 12-Stephens 9/16/03 12:32 PM Page 174 174 Radical History Review In my current research project I use the writings of three black transnational figures, Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James...

... thinkers in the black radical tradition, C. L. R. James, Richard Wright, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Robinson’s efforts to locate the development of a black radical tradition in the revolts and rebellions against slav- ery, while attempting to assess the distinct...

... relationship with American culture and, most recently, the subject of cin- ema and terrorism. Kent Worcester is the author or coeditor of six books, including C. L. R. James: A Politi- cal Biography (1996), Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (2004), and A Comics Studies Reader (2009). He...

... of fac- tors-local or overseas; ideological, economic, or political-best accounted for the patterns that emerged? By revisiting such classics as Philip Curtin on the slave trade, the Eric Williams thesis, C. L. R. James on the Haitian Revolution, and the David Brion Davis- Seymour Drescher...

... some of the best of Oscar Wilde, C. L. R. James, Upton Sinclair, Oscar Ameringer, Mary Marcy, Covington Hall, Proudhon, Kropotkin and Marx back into cir- culation. New and forthcoming titles include a lavish Haymarket Scrapbook, a volume on the recent Yale strike and memoirs of a range...

... into politics and national pantheons of heroes.4 The relationship of political movements to sport has influenced its place within historical scholarship. C. L. R. James, the Trinidadian radical intellectual, and many of the pioneering scholars in the field participated in anticolonial, femi- nist...

... of Black Political Identities  171 Eric Williams, “The Impact of the International Crisis upon the Negro in the Caribbean,” Journal of Negro Education 10 (1941): 536 – 44. Week 8 The Post – World War II Pan-Caribbean Movement Readings: C. L. R. James, At the Rendezvous of Victory...

..., Anna Julia Cooper, Nicolas Guillen, C. L. R. James, Oliver Cox, and Zora Neale Hurston, to name a few, have shared a kind of diasporic vision or sensibility, shaped by the antiracist and anti-imperialist politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

... examples rather than a comprehensive overview, the content of these weeks, and indeed the person teaching them, can and does change. The “Resistance” course has included the following case studies: Richard Burton’s Afro-Creole alongside C. L. R. James’s Beyond...

... and social principle—constituted a fundamental aspect of the movement. The NEUM would at one point receive recognition and support internationally from such fi gures as C. L. R. James and George Padmore, as well as from various left-wing organiza- tions in Europe...

... of challenges to the global order. This transnationalism was an international- ism that expressed itself in the newspaper and the political practices of the Interna- tional African Service Bureau (IASB), founded in London by George Padmore and C. L. R. James in 1937.8 It can also be found in the pages of W...

... the attack on the ancien régime, it simul- taneously presided over the making of empire and its racially inferior “savages.” A vast literature has now grown up on the question of slavery and its relationship to capitalism, but C. L. R. James provided one of the first systematic accounts of how slavery...

... George Schuyler, Walter White, A. Philip Randolph, George Padmore, and C. L. R. James, to name a few. Because of the scope of Yergan’s odyssey, Anthony’s research task was noth- ing less than Herculean. He does seem to have examined every scrap of paper by or about Yergan produced on three...

... Marxism. A: And it contains with it dangerous notions of “vanguard” leadership and “vanguard” parties. Q: But there are other traditions within Marxism that reject the vanguard party and do not reject this kind of historical mission for workers. I am thinking of the work of C. L. R James...

... Semley | To Live and Die, Free and French   67 Revolutions asserted in C. L. R. James’s classic study, The Black Jacobins.12 Still, the events in Saint-­Domingue, even after it became Haiti, were not a simple rejection or contortion of French revolutionary ideals. Toussaint Louverture provided...

... in the colonial countries, until his break with the Communists, when he concentrated on radical Pan-African activity. RADICALHISTORY REVIEW 24 FALL1980 PAGES68-75 DISCUSSION WITH C .L .R. JAMES 69 The importance of C.L.R. James has tended...

... was elastic, drawing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, George Padmore, and Frantz Fanon and incorporating cultural con- sciousness, the politics of decolonialization, and calls for an antiracist, anticapital- ist revolution.19 Some adopted classical leftist formations, represented...