C L R James

Biographic Data

ID223755
NAMEC L R James
GIVEN NAMESC L R
FAMILY NAMEJames
SIGNATUREJAMES C L R
AFFILIATIONSC. L. R. James is well known as the author of Black Jacobins, a history of the Haitian revolution, and A History of Pan-African Revolt. He was born in Trinidad and educated at Queen's Royal College, where he also taught before leaving for England in 1932. During the thirties, with George Padmore and Jomo Kenyatta, Mr. James, despite his socialist convictions organized the International African Service Bureau for African Independence and edited the movement's journal, International African Opinion. Visiting
ORCID0009-0000-7353-1409
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS377
WORKS AS AUTHOR32
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1938
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Little Helpers

    C L R James, Chandler JamesARTICLECongress & the Presidency2025

  • Two Prefaces to The Black Jacobins

    C L R JamesCHAPTERDiscourse on Colonialism2022

    Two Prefaces to The Black Jacobins - 1

  • Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution

    Open AccessC L R James, Carole James et al.BOOKNkrumah and the Ghana Revolution2022Cited by: 14

    In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution , C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, showing how Ghana’s independence movement brought a new phase of revolutionary history

  • World Revolution, 1917–1936

    C L R James, Christian HøgsbjergBOOKWorld Revolution, 1917-19362020

    Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the revolutionary history in the interwar period, the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin, and the ideological contestations within the Communist International and its role in the Soviet Union and international revolution

  • World Revolution, 1917 1936

    C L R James, Christian HøgsbjergBOOKWorld Revolution, 1917-19362017

    Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the revolutionary history in the interwar period, the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin, and the ideological contestations within the Communist International and its role in the Soviet Union and international revolution.

  • Od Toussainta L’Ouverture’a do Fidela Castro

    Open AccessC L R JamesARTICLEPraktyka Teoretyczna2016

    Niniejszy tekst stanowi dodatek do klasycznej już analizy rewolucji na Haiti C.L.R. Jamesa. Autor w tym apendyksie do Black Jacobins porusza kwestię dwóch konstytutywnych jego zdaniem elementów dla gospodarki i społeczeństwa karaibskich wysp – uprawy trzciny cukrowej i czarnego niewolnictwa. Zagadnienia te są podejmowane w kontekście ruchów emancypacyjnych i rewolucyjnych od Toussainta L’Ouverture’a po Fidela Castro

  • The Life of Captain Cipriani

    Open AccessC L R JamesBOOKLife of Captain Cipriani2014Cited by: 2

  • Toussaint Louverture The Story Of The Only Successful Slave Revolt In History A Play In Three Acts

    C L R James, Christian HøgsbjergBOOKToussaint Louverture The Story Of…2013

  • Beyond a Boundary

    Open AccessC L R JamesBOOKBeyond a boundary2013

  • Toussaint Louverture

    Open AccessC L R James, Christian HøgsbjergBOOKToussaint Louverture The Story Of…2012

  • Interviews

    C L R JamesARTICLEThe Black Scholar2012Cited by: 4

    (2012). Interviews: C. L. R. James. The Black Scholar: Vol. 42, Black Scholar Classics: Remembering the 1970's In Memorium: Elizabeth Catlett, 1915–2012, pp. 22-30

  • The Neglected C.L.R. James

    Paul Buhle, C L R JamesARTICLEMonthly Review2000

    Marxism For Our Times: C.L.R. James on Revolutionary Organization Martin Glaberman, edThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

  • C. L. R. James's Caribbean

    Anthony Payne, Paget Henry et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1994

  • In the Company of C. L. R. James

    Ethan Casey, C L R James et al.ARTICLECallaloo1994

  • C. L. R. James's Caribbean

    C L R James, George Lamming et al.BOOKC. L. R. James's Caribbean1992

  • C. L. R. James’s Caribbean

    Stuart Hall, C L R James et al.BOOKC. L. R. James's Caribbean1992

    For more than half a century, C. L. R. James (1901–1989)—"the Black Plato," as coined by the London Times—has been an internationally renowned revolutionary thinker, writer, and activist. Born in Trinidad, his lifelong work was devoted to understanding and transforming race and class exploitation in his native West Indies, as well as in Britain and the United States. In C. L. R. James's Caribbean, noted scholars examine the roots of both James's …

  • Popular art and the cultural tradition∗

    C L R James, Cathy JamesARTICLEThird Text1990Cited by: 2

  • A New View of West Indian History

    C L R JamesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1989

  • Socialism or Barbarism

    C L R James, Christian JamesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1989

  • Immigrants to Britain

    C L R JamesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1989

    (1989). Immigrants to Britain: Formerly Colonial Peoples. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 15-34

  • The Slaves

    C L R James, Carole JamesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1989

  • West Indian Personality

    C L R JamesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

  • The Artist in the Caribbean

    C L R JamesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

  • My first cricketing XI

    C L R JamesARTICLENew Community1986

  • State Capitalism & World Revolution (Revolutionary Classics)

    C L R James, Grace Lee Boggs et al.BOOKState Capitalism & World…1986