African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
287 p, Contents: C.L.R. James : a portrait / Stuart Hall -- C.L.R. James on the Caribbean : three letters / C.L.R. James -- C.L.R. James : West Indian / George Lamming interviewed by Paul Buhle -- The audacity of it all : C.L.R. James's Trinidadian background / Selwyn Cudjoe -- The making of a literary life / C.L.R. James interviewed by Paul Buhle -- Beyond the categories of the master conception : the counterdoctrine of the Jamesian poiesis / Sylvia Wynter -- Cricket and national culture in the writings of C.L.R. James / Neil Lazarus -- Caliban as deconstructionist : C.L.R. James and post-colonial discourse / Paget Henry and Paul Buhle -- C.L.R. James and the Caribbean economic tradition / Paget Henry -- C.L.R. James and Trinidadian nationalism / Walton Look Lai -- The question of the canon : C.L.R. James and modern politics / Kent Worcester --C.L.R. James and the Antiguan left / Paget Henry.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
294 p, Discusses key individuals (George Padmore, Eric Williams, C.L.R.James among others) and organizations (particularly Labor and liberation movements)in the Anglophone Caribbean world from the perspective of contemporary political and economic Caribbean realities. Particular attention is paid to the Pan-African Movement and its linking of Black Africa and the diasporic Black world of the British West Indies. Colonial Office policies of the period are discussed along with attempts by local and international economic interests during and after both World Wars to control events and thwart labor and independence movements. African American influence in popular political culture and its political and social effect on organizations in the islands is discussed along with key African American newspapers such as The Crisis, Chicago Defender, The Negro Worker, and the Baltimore Afro-American.
