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C.L.R. James: A Life

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A long-overdue critical appreciation of the West Indian historian and political activist who played a towering role in the reason for Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century.

Born in Trinidad in 1901, Cyril Lionel Robert James was once a precocious polymath all his life. By the point he was once a youngster and already a certified teacher, he had embarked on a lifelong advocacy for the Trinidadian oppressed. He embraced Marxism at the same time as living in England throughout the 1930s, throughout which time he published, among other works, The Case for West Indian Self Government and his masterpiece, The Black Jacobins.

James lived in the US from 1939 until he was once expelled throughout the McCarthy terror for his political activities. Thereafter he divided his time between London and Trinidad (where he served as Secretary of the West Indies Federal Labor Party) and, until his death in 1989, wrote works of both fiction and nonfiction that would profoundly influence the Black Power movement in the US and independence movements in Africa and the West Indies.

Farrukh Dhondy knew James for my part and was once given get right of entry to to his papers. The result is a biography that may be a revelation of the life and work of this legendary intellect and revolutionary.

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