Christian Høgsbjerg
Biographic Data
| ID | 82141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Høgsbjerg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Høgsbjerg |
| SIGNATURE | HØGSBJERG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3477-2992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
O profeta e Black Power: Trotsky sobre raça nos Estados Unidos
Os críticos mais radicais de Leon Trotsky têm frequentemente feito a afirmação de que ele não entendeu a questão racial. Este artigo não pretende sugerir que Trotsky tenha dado qualquer tipo de "resposta revolucionária à questão do negro", mas simplesmente tenta defendê-lo das acusações levantadas contra ele: oportunismo político e rude filisteísmo. Argumenta-se que, apesar das inevitáveis limitações e deficiências em alguns pontos, Trotsky demon…
The antinomies of Sam Morris: A Life in the Diaspora
This article attempts to recover the antinomies and contradictions of the life and work of Grenada-born Samson Uriah Morris (1908−1976), an educationalist, anti-colonialist and Black political activist, whose life was dedicated to both the movement for civil rights in Britain and the broader anti-colonial and Pan-Africanist struggle. His life ranged from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom to Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana and then back to Britain where h…
The Very Valley of the Shadow of Death
This essay explores the Black Trinidadian revolutionary historian C. L. R. James's little-theorized engagement with questions of the environment and natural world from the 1930s to the 1980s, situating this within his wider oeuvre as a Marxist who not only experienced colonial domination in the Caribbean but also witnessed other catastrophes endemic to twentieth-century capitalism, from the Great War to the Great Depression, the rise of fascism a…
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter…
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
When we consider the roots of contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter, the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804 represents a foundational, inspirational moment, and of wider world-historical impact and importance, “the only successful slave revolt in history.” Hollywood can handle depicting the famous slave revolt led by the Thracian gladiator Spartacus, perhaps in part because the rebellion he led against the Roman Empire in 73 BCE was tragica…
The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions
World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
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
The Red and the Black: C.L.R. James and the Historical Idea of World Revolution
This paper seeks to situate the idea and intellectual narrative of “world revolution” in its modern historical context, tracing it back to the age of democratic revolution in the late eighteenth century, and then developed by great revolutionary thinkers like Marx and Engels. It examines the possible limitations of Marx and Engels’s vision of world revolution with respect to the Third World as a result of their European intellectual formation in …
‘Paris Today, Leeds Tomorrow!’ Remembering 1968 in Leeds
In 1968, protests against the old order swept the world. From the general strike in France and the student occupations in Paris to the Tet offensive in Vietnam, and from the Black Panthers in the US to the Prague Spring, the movement was contagious. In Britain a wave of student protests and sit-ins took place, most famously at the LSE and Hornsey College of Art but also at a wide range of other campuses and colleges, including at Leeds University…
The Black Jacobins Reader
Silencing the 'bristling Blimps': Reflections on Insurgent Empire
Priya Gopal’s Insurgent Empire is an outstanding piece of anti-imperialist literature and a fine contribution to the field of ‘reparative history’. This essay suggests its brilliantly conceived underlying thesis about the ‘dialectical and dialogical’ relationship between ‘anti-colonial resistance and British dissent’ could be profitably applied further in three further directions. Firstly, the thesis could be applied to the longue durée of the Br…
Experiments in Exile: C.L.R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness, by Laura Harris
In this well-crafted and thought-provoking work Laura Harris explores what she calls "the aesthetic sociality of blackness" through a discussion of the "surprising resonances" in the work of two "very disparate figures"-the black Trinidadian Marxist historian C.L.R. James and the white Brazilian anarchist artist Hélio Oiticica .Harris notes that both figures found a new sense of freedom while resident in the United States of America, and in New Y…
Globalising the Haitian Revolution in Black Paris: C.L.R. James, Metropolitan Anti-imperialism in Interwar France and the Writing of The Black Jacobins
This article will focus on the black Trinidadian Marxist historian C.L.R. James and how his exposure to French as part of his colonial education and sojourns and researches in interwar France shaped the writing of his anti-colonial classic, the monumental account of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938), which not only helped ‘globalise’ that revolution but also the French Revolution. Much of James’s archival research was undertaken i…
The Independence, Energy and Creative Talent of Carnival Can Do Other Wonders”: C.L.R. James on Carnival
This essay will examine the writings of C.L.R. James, one of Trinidad's greatest thinkers and writers, on Carnival as an indigenous popular cultural phenomenon, which for James showed the potentialities for mass mobilisation and self-organisation among the people of Trinidad and Tobago. From a young age growing up in colonial Trinidad, James had been fascinated by calypso singers at Carnival time, and he retained his love of Carnival as it emerge…
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket: C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary
World Revolution, 1917 1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
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.
Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions
Toussaint Louverture (c1743-1803) was the heroic leading figure in the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, the only successful slave revolt in recorded history, and he remains an international inspiration, seen by many to be one of the greatest anti-imperialist fighters who ever lived. \n\nToussaint was a military genius who led an army composed overwhelmingly of former enslaved Africans and people of African descent to victory after victory under t…
“What would an Athenian have thought of the day’s play?” C.L.R. James’s early cricket writings for The Manchester Guardian
In April 1933 the young Trinidadian writer C.L.R. James started work alongside the famous critic Neville Cardus as a cricket correspondent for The Manchester Guardian, writing nearly 140 brief reports for the newspaper over the next three seasons. Cardus’s appointment of a newly arrived British colonial subject like James to such a prestigious post remains quite remarkable. James’s job meant he travelled widely for the first time across England r…
Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's intellectual and political trajectory. During this time, James turned from liberal humanism to revolutionary socialism. Rejecting the "imperial Britishness" he had absorbed growing up in a crown c…
Darcus Howe: A Political Biography. By Robin Bunce and Paul Field
This is a long overdue and badly needed biographical portrait of the black Trinidadian political radical and broadcaster Darcus Howe, who as one of the leading ideological agitators of the British Black Power Movement made a critical contribution to the shaping of modern multiracial and multicultural ‘postcolonial’ Britain after his arrival in the ‘Mother Country’ in 1961. Howe’s life is a rich one and well-lived: from birth in colonial Trinidad …
Rufus E. Fennell: A literary Pan-Africanist in Britain
Rufus E. Fennell (1887–1974) was a remarkable black intellectual and activist, born in America, but possibly of Caribbean descent. Now almost completely forgotten, he made an important contribution to Pan-Africanism and the struggle for racial justice in Britain, where he spent much of his life. He also worked in the theatre and appeared alongside Paul Robeson in the 1937 film Jericho. And, most interestingly, he wrote a hitherto completely unkno…
Sergei Eisenstein and the Haitian Revolution: The Confrontation Between Black and White Explodes Into Red
While the American and French Revolutions have regularly been commemorated in film, this article argues that their Haitian equivalent – despite its own world-historic significance and global cultural impact – still awaits serious cinematic representation. However, the idea of making just such a film stirred the imagination of the one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, the Soviet film-director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948). Eisenste…
Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora 1919-1939
Toussaint Louverture The Story Of The Only Successful Slave Revolt In History A Play In Three Acts
George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary
George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary Edited by Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis Kingston, Ian Randle, 2009 xxvi+209 pp., ISBN: 978-976-637-350-4 (US$24.95 paperback) The appearance of an edit
Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora 1919-1939
The Black Jacobins Reader
Globalising the Haitian Revolution in Black Paris: C.L.R. James, Metropolitan Anti-imperialism in Interwar France and the Writing of The Black Jacobins
This article will focus on the black Trinidadian Marxist historian C.L.R. James and how his exposure to French as part of his colonial education and sojourns and researches in interwar France shaped the writing of his anti-colonial classic, the monumental account of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938), which not only helped ‘globalise’ that revolution but also the French Revolution. Much of James’s archival research was undertaken i…
A Thorn in the Side of Great Britain”: C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Labour Rebellions of the 1930s
This essay examines C. L. R. James's relationship to the heroic and inspiring arc of labour rebellions that swept the colonial British Caribbean during the 1930s. The essay begins by discussing James's 1932 work putting the case for West Indian self-government, The Life of Captain Cipriani, and its generally positive reception in the Caribbean. We then turn to the “outbreak of democracy” represented by the Trinidad general strike in 1937 and Jame…
Mariner, renegade and castaway: Chris Braithwaite, seamen's organiser and Pan-Africanist
The author explores the political life in Britain of black Barbadian Chris Braithwaite (c.1885-1944), also known as 'Chris Jones', a hitherto overlooked, yet outstanding figure in the history of the twentieth-century Black and Red Atlantic. As leader of the Colonial Seamen's Association and an important 'class struggle Pan-Africanist', he was the lynchpin of an anti-colonial maritime network in interwar London. Through his work in the Communist p…
The Independence, Energy and Creative Talent of Carnival Can Do Other Wonders”: C.L.R. James on Carnival
This essay will examine the writings of C.L.R. James, one of Trinidad's greatest thinkers and writers, on Carnival as an indigenous popular cultural phenomenon, which for James showed the potentialities for mass mobilisation and self-organisation among the people of Trinidad and Tobago. From a young age growing up in colonial Trinidad, James had been fascinated by calypso singers at Carnival time, and he retained his love of Carnival as it emerge…
Rufus E. Fennell: A literary Pan-Africanist in Britain
Rufus E. Fennell (1887–1974) was a remarkable black intellectual and activist, born in America, but possibly of Caribbean descent. Now almost completely forgotten, he made an important contribution to Pan-Africanism and the struggle for racial justice in Britain, where he spent much of his life. He also worked in the theatre and appeared alongside Paul Robeson in the 1937 film Jericho. And, most interestingly, he wrote a hitherto completely unkno…
We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold: Reflections on the 'Colonial Victorianism' of the Young C. L. R. James
Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity
This review-essay examines two recent works of scholarship on the life and work of the late Trinidadian intellectual and activist C.L.R. James (1901–89). While recognising the respective merits of Frank Rosengarten's Urbane Revolutionary; C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society (2008) and Brett St Louis's Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity (2007) the essay argues that a critical weakness of both wo…
George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary
George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary Edited by Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis Kingston, Ian Randle, 2009 xxvi+209 pp., ISBN: 978-976-637-350-4 (US$24.95 paperback) The appearance of an edit
Brian Pearce (1915-2008)
The famous remark attributed to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, that ‘historians are dangerous people ... capable of upsetting everything’, touched on an important truth. Even if the bureaucratic dictatorship over which he presided was hardly the first ruling elite in history to have discovered the inherently potentially subversive nature of historical study, the fateful year of 1956 reaffirmed this when Khrushchev’s own words and actio…
A Thorn in the Side of Great Britain”: C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Labour Rebellions of the 1930s
This essay examines C. L. R. James's relationship to the heroic and inspiring arc of labour rebellions that swept the colonial British Caribbean during the 1930s. The essay begins by discussing James's 1932 work putting the case for West Indian self-government, The Life of Captain Cipriani, and its generally positive reception in the Caribbean. We then turn to the “outbreak of democracy” represented by the Trinidad general strike in 1937 and Jame…
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Mariner, renegade and castaway: Chris Braithwaite, seamen's organiser and Pan-Africanist
The author explores the political life in Britain of black Barbadian Chris Braithwaite (c.1885-1944), also known as 'Chris Jones', a hitherto overlooked, yet outstanding figure in the history of the twentieth-century Black and Red Atlantic. As leader of the Colonial Seamen's Association and an important 'class struggle Pan-Africanist', he was the lynchpin of an anti-colonial maritime network in interwar London. Through his work in the Communist p…
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts
We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold: Reflections on the 'Colonial Victorianism' of the Young C. L. R. James
Toussaint Louverture The Story Of The Only Successful Slave Revolt In History A Play In Three Acts
The Black International as Social Movement Wave: C.L.R. James’s History of Pan-African Revolt
This chapter examines and explores the question of Marxism's possible contribution to such a 'rethinking of received wisdom' through the lens of the 'black international'. It evokes a sense of how James's creative fusion of Marxist scholarship and political activism ensured that A History of Negro Revolt represented, in the words of Rodney, 'a mine of ideas advancing far ahead of its time'. James concluded his discussion of revolutionary black in…
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's intellectual and political trajectory. During this time, James turned from liberal humanism to revolutionary socialism. Rejecting the "imperial Britishness" he had absorbed growing up in a crown c…
Darcus Howe: A Political Biography. By Robin Bunce and Paul Field
This is a long overdue and badly needed biographical portrait of the black Trinidadian political radical and broadcaster Darcus Howe, who as one of the leading ideological agitators of the British Black Power Movement made a critical contribution to the shaping of modern multiracial and multicultural ‘postcolonial’ Britain after his arrival in the ‘Mother Country’ in 1961. Howe’s life is a rich one and well-lived: from birth in colonial Trinidad …
Rufus E. Fennell: A literary Pan-Africanist in Britain
Rufus E. Fennell (1887–1974) was a remarkable black intellectual and activist, born in America, but possibly of Caribbean descent. Now almost completely forgotten, he made an important contribution to Pan-Africanism and the struggle for racial justice in Britain, where he spent much of his life. He also worked in the theatre and appeared alongside Paul Robeson in the 1937 film Jericho. And, most interestingly, he wrote a hitherto completely unkno…
Sergei Eisenstein and the Haitian Revolution: The Confrontation Between Black and White Explodes Into Red
While the American and French Revolutions have regularly been commemorated in film, this article argues that their Haitian equivalent – despite its own world-historic significance and global cultural impact – still awaits serious cinematic representation. However, the idea of making just such a film stirred the imagination of the one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, the Soviet film-director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948). Eisenste…
Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora 1919-1939
“What would an Athenian have thought of the day’s play?” C.L.R. James’s early cricket writings for The Manchester Guardian
In April 1933 the young Trinidadian writer C.L.R. James started work alongside the famous critic Neville Cardus as a cricket correspondent for The Manchester Guardian, writing nearly 140 brief reports for the newspaper over the next three seasons. Cardus’s appointment of a newly arrived British colonial subject like James to such a prestigious post remains quite remarkable. James’s job meant he travelled widely for the first time across England r…
Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
World Revolution, 1917 1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
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.
Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions
Toussaint Louverture (c1743-1803) was the heroic leading figure in the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, the only successful slave revolt in recorded history, and he remains an international inspiration, seen by many to be one of the greatest anti-imperialist fighters who ever lived. \n\nToussaint was a military genius who led an army composed overwhelmingly of former enslaved Africans and people of African descent to victory after victory under t…
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket: C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary
Experiments in Exile: C.L.R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness, by Laura Harris
In this well-crafted and thought-provoking work Laura Harris explores what she calls "the aesthetic sociality of blackness" through a discussion of the "surprising resonances" in the work of two "very disparate figures"-the black Trinidadian Marxist historian C.L.R. James and the white Brazilian anarchist artist Hélio Oiticica .Harris notes that both figures found a new sense of freedom while resident in the United States of America, and in New Y…
Globalising the Haitian Revolution in Black Paris: C.L.R. James, Metropolitan Anti-imperialism in Interwar France and the Writing of The Black Jacobins
This article will focus on the black Trinidadian Marxist historian C.L.R. James and how his exposure to French as part of his colonial education and sojourns and researches in interwar France shaped the writing of his anti-colonial classic, the monumental account of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938), which not only helped ‘globalise’ that revolution but also the French Revolution. Much of James’s archival research was undertaken i…
The Independence, Energy and Creative Talent of Carnival Can Do Other Wonders”: C.L.R. James on Carnival
This essay will examine the writings of C.L.R. James, one of Trinidad's greatest thinkers and writers, on Carnival as an indigenous popular cultural phenomenon, which for James showed the potentialities for mass mobilisation and self-organisation among the people of Trinidad and Tobago. From a young age growing up in colonial Trinidad, James had been fascinated by calypso singers at Carnival time, and he retained his love of Carnival as it emerge…
World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
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
The Red and the Black: C.L.R. James and the Historical Idea of World Revolution
This paper seeks to situate the idea and intellectual narrative of “world revolution” in its modern historical context, tracing it back to the age of democratic revolution in the late eighteenth century, and then developed by great revolutionary thinkers like Marx and Engels. It examines the possible limitations of Marx and Engels’s vision of world revolution with respect to the Third World as a result of their European intellectual formation in …
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