Obi B. Egbuna, C. L. R. James and the birth of black power in Britain: Black radicalism in Britain 1967–72
Submitted by wojtek on Jun 2 2020 10:38
R.E.R. Bunce's essay on the political direction black British radicalism took in the late 1960s. This transformation followed the visit of Stokely Carmichael whom the Labour Party deported.
An African “Homeland” for the Jewish Refugees? - CLR James
Written in 1938 while he was still a Trotskyist, CLR James writes about the plan to create a Jewish colony in Kenya. This was not a brand new idea in relation to the rise of Nazism, but had been supported by Theodor Herzl and Joseph Chamberlain (known as the Uganda Scheme).
The Making of the Caribbean People
This lecture on what James has called "perhaps the strangest community in existence" was delivered in Canada in the summer of 1966, at the Second Montreal Conference on West Indian Affairs.
Lectures on the Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins - how I came to write this book and what is in the book, what did I think was in the book when I wrote it and what do I find in the book now.
-CLR James
Modern Politics
A series of lectures given in Trinidad in 1960.
The Black Jacobins Reader
The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.
Beyond a Boundry
CLR James' classic book on the politics of cricket.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
This history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora throughout the twentieth century begins with the premise that the catalyst for political engagement has never been misery, poverty, or oppression. People are drawn to social movement because of hope: their dreams of a new world radically different from the one they inherited.
Reflections on Pan-Africanism
Transcript of speech given on November 20, 1973. James discusses George Padmore's break with the USSR, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere and other figures.
Walter Rodney and the Question of Power
A talk by CLR James' given six months after the assassination of Walter Rodney, with introduction by the Race Today Collective.
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