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Christian Høgsbjerg, C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (2014)
Quest, Matthew http://insurgentnotes.com/2014/05/review-christian-hogsbjerg-c-l-r-james-in-imperial-britain-2014/
Publisher: Insurgent Notes Date Written: 30/05/2014 Year Published: 2014 Resource Type: Article
Scholarship on CLR James, the Pan African and independent socialist, often takes the tone of a thin cultural studies where political insight is minimal and factual detail rooted in archival sources is negligible. Grasping Jamess role in intellectual and social movement history requires resisting the tendency to group him narrowly in the fields of Marxism or the Black radical tradition. These are invented frameworks, shorthand which obscures a limited knowledge of Jamess actual innovation and creativity, in contrast to other representative figures, but also mystification of the reality of elite party politics and the self-directed liberating activity by ordinary people in insurgent movements regardless of color.
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