...Christopher Taylor Christopher Taylor considers C. L. R. James’s sojourn in the United States from the perspective of a series of articles that James wrote while assisting Missourian sharecroppers striking in 1941. While James’s work has been foundational to postnational Americanist scholarship...

... initiatives directly contributed to the racially disproportionate eviction of Black tenant farmers and sharecroppers, indirectly accelerated dispossessive structural developments in agricultural (especially the increase of farming mechanization), and were consistently hostile to labor organizing...

... their counterparts in the global South. This theory retooled an older internal-colony model made popular at the Communist Party International’s Sixth Congress in 1928, which argued that Black peoples inhabiting the Black Belt counties of the US South—the majority of whom were sharecroppers and agricultural workers...

... and nature, as these very frameworks are composed through racialized dispossession and devaluation. This is readily exemplified in the case of the first human cell line, HeLa. The HeLa cell line is named after Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American sharecropper whose cervical cancer cells were taken...

... traditions that had a heyday in the 1930s, the trap- pings were borrowed as much from déclassé bohemian velvet as from populist sharecropper denim redolent of the Great Depression. One aims at the cosmopolitan stance as fiercely as the other is determined...

... that existed at an everyday level for sharecroppers, miners, sailors, soldiers, middlemen, merchants, and consumers. For a brilliant illustration, see Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic. 91. See Harvey’s capacious mapping of this process in Limits to Capital. 92. Ibid., 265 – 70...

... predominantly made up of peasants and farmers in the West Indies, or sharecroppers and peons in North America, or forced laborers on colonial plantations in Africa, Marxism appeared distracted from the cruelest and most characteristic manifestations of the world economy. This exposed the inadequacies of Marxism...

... sharecroppers in southeast Missouri. When he found out that I knew German and had studied Hegel, we sat down almost immediately on the red couch in my basement room and began comparing the texts of Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic. That was the beginning of our close col...