C. L. R. James (1901–1989)
Autor de The Black Jacobins
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) 1989 photograph (CLR James Internet Archive)
Series
Obras de C. L. R. James
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In (1977) 143 copias
C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 1939-1949 (1993) 55 copias
A New Notion: Two Works by C. L. R. James: Every Cook Can Govern and The Invading Socialist Society (2009) 44 copias
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts (The C. L. R.… (2012) 38 copias
The Life of Captain Cipriani: An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for… (2014) 9 copias
Party politics in the West Indies 7 copias
The Making of the Caribbean Peoples 2 copias
Elmore Family History 1 copia
Anyone Can Live Off the Land 1 copia
C.L.R. James on Walter Rodney 1 copia
sur LA QUESTION NOIRE 1 copia
Lenin and The Problem 1 copia
Radical America 1 copia
Letters on organization 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- James, C. L. R.
- Nombre legal
- James, Cyril Lionel Robert
- Otros nombres
- Johnson, J. R. (pseudonym)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1901-01-04
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1989-05-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Trinidad and Tobago
- País (para mapa)
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Nelson, Lancashire, England, UK
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - Educación
- Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad
- Ocupaciones
- historian
essayist
teacher
journalist - Relaciones
- Boggs, James (colleague)
Dunayevskaya, Raya
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda (step-grandchild) - Organizaciones
- International African Service Bureau
Labour Party
Independent Labour Party
Revolutionary Socialist League
University of the District of Columbia
Correspondence Publishing Committee (mostrar todos 7)
Johnson–Forest Tendency
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- Obras
- 61
- También por
- 6
- Miembros
- 3,230
- Popularidad
- #7,925
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 43
- ISBNs
- 161
- Idiomas
- 5
- Favorito
- 9