Synopses & Reviews
Praise for The Black Jacobins:
"Mr. James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling—a sense of justice, love of freedom, admiration for heroism, hatred for tyranny—and his detailed, richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest."—The New York Times
Renowned as a ground breaking cultural theorist, the most influential chronicler of the Haitian revolution, and as a political activist, CLR James is widely considered as one of the most important Black intellectuals of the twentieth century. This collection pulls together his most significant writings on black liberation in the United States.
Synopsis
The first collection of writings on African-American topics by this internationally influential pan-African thinker.
About the Author
C.L.R. James (1901-1989) was a novelist, activist, and political theorist who worked with Leon Trotsky, Richard Wright, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Kwame Nkrumah. He wrote the classic history of the Haitian revolution The Black Jacobins, and helped create a network of pan-African organizers.
Scott McLemee is the editor of C.L.R. James and "the Negro Question" and co-editor, with Paul Leblanc, of C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism. He writes the weekly column "Intellectual Affairs" for Inside Higher Ed and serves on the editorial board of New Politics.