C. L. R. James (1901–1989)
Auteur van The Black Jacobins
Over de Auteur
A native of Trinidad, C. L. R. James grew up in a very respectable middle-class black family steeped in British manners and culture. Although justifiably well-known in the British world as a writer, historian, and political activist, his contributions have been underappreciated in the United toon meer States. A student of history, literature, philosophy, and culture, James thought widely and wrote provocatively. He also turned his words into deeds as a journalist, a Trotskyite, a Pan-African activist, a Trinidadian nationalist politican, a university teacher, and a government official. James was a teacher and magazine editor in Trinidad until the early 1930s, when he went to England and became a sports writer for the Manchester Guardian. While in England he became a dedicated Marxist organizer. In 1938 he moved to the United States and continued his political activities, founding an organization dedicated to the principles of Trotskyism. His politics led to his expulsion from the United States in 1953, and he returned to Trinidad, from which he was also expelled in the early 1960s. He spent the remainder of his life in England. Among James's extensive writings, the two most influential volumes are Black Jacobins (1967), a study of the anti-French Dominican (Haitian) slave rebellion of the 1790s, and Beyond a Boundary (1963), a remarkable exploration of sport, specifically cricket, as social and political history. Other important works include A History of Negro Revolt (1938) and The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932). James represents an unusual combination of activist-reformer (even revolutionary) and promoter of the best in art, culture, and gentility. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) 1989 photograph (CLR James Internet Archive)
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Werken van C. L. R. James
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In (1977) 143 exemplaren
C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 1939-1949 (1993) 55 exemplaren
A New Notion: Two Works by C. L. R. James: Every Cook Can Govern and The Invading Socialist Society (2009) 44 exemplaren
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts (The C. L. R.… (2012) 38 exemplaren
The Life of Captain Cipriani: An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for… (2014) 9 exemplaren
Party politics in the West Indies 7 exemplaren
The Making of the Caribbean Peoples 2 exemplaren
Walter Rodney and the question of power 1 exemplaar
Elmore Family History 1 exemplaar
Anyone Can Live Off the Land 1 exemplaar
C L R James - Crickets Philosopher King 1 exemplaar
A Tribute: essay and lectures by C.L.R. James 1 exemplaar
Notes on dialectics: Hegel Marx Lenin 1 exemplaar
C.L.R. James on Walter Rodney 1 exemplaar
Dielectic and History: an introduction 1 exemplaar
sur LA QUESTION NOIRE 1 exemplaar
Wilson Harris - A Philosophical Approach 1 exemplaar
Lenin and The Problem 1 exemplaar
Dialectic & History: An Introduction 1 exemplaar
Radical America 1 exemplaar
Letters on organization 1 exemplaar
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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Medewerker — 93 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- James, C. L. R.
- Officiële naam
- James, Cyril Lionel Robert
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Johnson, J. R. (pseudonym)
- Geboortedatum
- 1901-01-04
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1989-05-19
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Geboorteplaats
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Nelson, Lancashire, England, UK
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - Opleiding
- Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad
- Beroepen
- historian
essayist
teacher
journalist - Relaties
- Boggs, James (colleague)
Dunayevskaya, Raya
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda (step-grandchild) - Organisaties
- International African Service Bureau
Labour Party
Independent Labour Party
Revolutionary Socialist League
University of the District of Columbia
Correspondence Publishing Committee (toon alle 7)
Johnson–Forest Tendency
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