A month from today, I will be giving at talk in Dublin, Ireland titled "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." A preview of a section from my forthcoming book "Reading Struggles." Can't wait and mroe details as it approaches. #CLRJames
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A month from today, I will be giving at talk in Dublin, Ireland titled "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." A preview of a section from my forthcoming book "Reading Struggles." Can't wait and mroe details as it approaches. #CLRJames
How does cricket reflect the struggles of colonialism and identity? C.L.R. James’s "Beyond A Boundary" reveals the game’s deeper cultural and political role. Dive into this insightful review!
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#CricketCulture #ColonialHistory #CLRJames #BlackHistory #BookLovers
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#CricketCulture #ColonialHistory #CLRJames #BlackHistory #BookLovers
Book Review: Beyond A Boundary- C.L.R. James
Cinema, Kanpur, Varanasi, Engineering, ITBHU, BHU, Books, Coaching Mandi, IIT Varanasi, Doordarshan,Teen Taal, Autobiographical, Culture, Society,
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October 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
How does cricket reflect the struggles of colonialism and identity? C.L.R. James’s "Beyond A Boundary" reveals the game’s deeper cultural and political role. Dive into this insightful review!
yayaver.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
#CricketCulture #ColonialHistory #CLRJames #BlackHistory #BookLovers
yayaver.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
#CricketCulture #ColonialHistory #CLRJames #BlackHistory #BookLovers
I first taught this class 10 years ago @ Hunter. It was incredible because of the student body.
•Pagoda — #PatriciaPowell
• What Noise Against the Cane — Desiree Bailey
• A Small Place — #JamaicaKincaid
• The Black Jacobins — #CLRJames
• Dub — #MichaelVeal
• Dancehall: A Reader
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•Pagoda — #PatriciaPowell
• What Noise Against the Cane — Desiree Bailey
• A Small Place — #JamaicaKincaid
• The Black Jacobins — #CLRJames
• Dub — #MichaelVeal
• Dancehall: A Reader
🔊🔊🇯🇲
August 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I first taught this class 10 years ago @ Hunter. It was incredible because of the student body.
•Pagoda — #PatriciaPowell
• What Noise Against the Cane — Desiree Bailey
• A Small Place — #JamaicaKincaid
• The Black Jacobins — #CLRJames
• Dub — #MichaelVeal
• Dancehall: A Reader
🔊🔊🇯🇲
•Pagoda — #PatriciaPowell
• What Noise Against the Cane — Desiree Bailey
• A Small Place — #JamaicaKincaid
• The Black Jacobins — #CLRJames
• Dub — #MichaelVeal
• Dancehall: A Reader
🔊🔊🇯🇲
1/3 Finally finished #BLACKSPARTACUS, the magnificent biography of #ToussaintLouverture by #SudhirHazareesingh. The detail it goes into is remarkable showing his (occasionally contradictory) revolutionary development. If you only read one book #CLRJames’ #BLACKJACOBINS is still it, but to fully…
August 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/3 Finally finished #BLACKSPARTACUS, the magnificent biography of #ToussaintLouverture by #SudhirHazareesingh. The detail it goes into is remarkable showing his (occasionally contradictory) revolutionary development. If you only read one book #CLRJames’ #BLACKJACOBINS is still it, but to fully…
#CLRJames #BlackJacobins
#Blacksky #Booksky
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Paperback – (1989) by C.L.R. James
A powerful and impassioned historical the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803.
#1 Best Seller
in #Haiti & #Caribbean.
www.amazon.com/Black-Jacobi...
#Blacksky #Booksky
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Paperback – (1989) by C.L.R. James
A powerful and impassioned historical the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803.
#1 Best Seller
in #Haiti & #Caribbean.
www.amazon.com/Black-Jacobi...
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution [James, C.L.R., Scott, David Scott] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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August 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
#CLRJames #BlackJacobins
#Blacksky #Booksky
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Paperback – (1989) by C.L.R. James
A powerful and impassioned historical the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803.
#1 Best Seller
in #Haiti & #Caribbean.
www.amazon.com/Black-Jacobi...
#Blacksky #Booksky
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Paperback – (1989) by C.L.R. James
A powerful and impassioned historical the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803.
#1 Best Seller
in #Haiti & #Caribbean.
www.amazon.com/Black-Jacobi...
"These are the slogans under which the working-class movement and the colonial peoples will safeguard the precious beginning in Russia, put an end to imperialist barbarity, and once more give some hope in living to all overshadowed humanity." #CLRJames, #WorldRevolution
June 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"These are the slogans under which the working-class movement and the colonial peoples will safeguard the precious beginning in Russia, put an end to imperialist barbarity, and once more give some hope in living to all overshadowed humanity." #CLRJames, #WorldRevolution
"It is a sea of blood and strife that faces us all, and shrinking from it only makes it worse. Turn the imperialist war into civil war. Abolish capitalism. Build international Socialism." #CLRJames, #WorldRevolution
June 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"It is a sea of blood and strife that faces us all, and shrinking from it only makes it worse. Turn the imperialist war into civil war. Abolish capitalism. Build international Socialism." #CLRJames, #WorldRevolution
"Correspondence—To recognize, to repory and to serve the New Society" a paper by the Correspondence Publishing Committee (1951-1962). #GraceLeeBoggs #RayaDunayevskaya #JimmyBoggs #MartyGlaberman #CLRJames
June 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Correspondence—To recognize, to repory and to serve the New Society" a paper by the Correspondence Publishing Committee (1951-1962). #GraceLeeBoggs #RayaDunayevskaya #JimmyBoggs #MartyGlaberman #CLRJames
Today in #LaborHistory 5/19/1989: #CLRJames died. #Trinidad, #Marxist historian & journalist. #Author of The Black Jacobins (1938) about #revolution in #Haiti, many articles & essays on #class & #race.
May 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today in #LaborHistory 5/19/1989: #CLRJames died. #Trinidad, #Marxist historian & journalist. #Author of The Black Jacobins (1938) about #revolution in #Haiti, many articles & essays on #class & #race.
New Article (Spring 2025): Sabotage: John Brown and the Subterranean Pass-Way - Ryan J. Johnson | The CLR James Journal | To read more, visit here: www.pdcnet.org/clrjames/con...
May 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New Article (Spring 2025): Sabotage: John Brown and the Subterranean Pass-Way - Ryan J. Johnson | The CLR James Journal | To read more, visit here: www.pdcnet.org/clrjames/con...
Today in #LaborHistory 5/6/1794: #ToussaintL'Ouverture launched Haitian #revolution, ending #slavery & creating world's 1st black republic. US refused to recognize #Haiti for 70. #France extracted millions in restitution. Read #BlackJacobins, by #CLRJames
#boukman #books #author #writer
#boukman #books #author #writer
May 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today in #LaborHistory 5/6/1794: #ToussaintL'Ouverture launched Haitian #revolution, ending #slavery & creating world's 1st black republic. US refused to recognize #Haiti for 70. #France extracted millions in restitution. Read #BlackJacobins, by #CLRJames
#boukman #books #author #writer
#boukman #books #author #writer
Today In #LaborHistory 4/7/1804: Haitian general #ToussaintLouverture died. Led slave #revolt against #France & #revolution making #Haiti the world's 1st black republic For more, read “Black Jacobins,” by #CLRJames.
April 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Today In #LaborHistory 4/7/1804: Haitian general #ToussaintLouverture died. Led slave #revolt against #France & #revolution making #Haiti the world's 1st black republic For more, read “Black Jacobins,” by #CLRJames.
Despite his contributions to African history and the history of the African diaspora, the Afro-Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James is not respected as a founder of African Studies. Why? roape.net/2025/02/26/a...
#CLRJames #Africanstudies
#CLRJames #Africanstudies
Amazing facts about CLR James' African Studies - ROAPE
Matthew Quest questions why C.L.R. James is not widely recognised as a founder of African Studies. He asks readers to consider why James’ contributions to the deep study of African history and…
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April 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Despite his contributions to African history and the history of the African diaspora, the Afro-Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James is not respected as a founder of African Studies. Why? roape.net/2025/02/26/a...
#CLRJames #Africanstudies
#CLRJames #Africanstudies
#clrjames as a pioneering founder of serious #africanstudies
Amazing facts about CLR James' African Studies - ROAPE
Matthew Quest questions why C.L.R. James is not widely recognised as a founder of African Studies. He asks readers to consider why James’ contributions to the deep study of African history and culture...
roape.net
March 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#clrjames as a pioneering founder of serious #africanstudies
New Article (Fall 2024): Unsettling the Plantation “Babylon” System: Humanness beyond Disaster, Reparative Ecologies and Caribbean Freedom - Keston K. Perry | The CLR James Journal | To read more, visit here: www.pdcnet.org/clrjames/con...
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New Article (Fall 2024): Unsettling the Plantation “Babylon” System: Humanness beyond Disaster, Reparative Ecologies and Caribbean Freedom - Keston K. Perry | The CLR James Journal | To read more, visit here: www.pdcnet.org/clrjames/con...
March 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
2/15
If #CLRJames' famous question: “what do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”, sought to challenge English cricket’s elitist historical orthodoxy, he failed in his task.
Given this failure, what is the authentic story of English cricket from the people’s perspective? #historyfrombelow
If #CLRJames' famous question: “what do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”, sought to challenge English cricket’s elitist historical orthodoxy, he failed in his task.
Given this failure, what is the authentic story of English cricket from the people’s perspective? #historyfrombelow
March 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
2/15
If #CLRJames' famous question: “what do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”, sought to challenge English cricket’s elitist historical orthodoxy, he failed in his task.
Given this failure, what is the authentic story of English cricket from the people’s perspective? #historyfrombelow
If #CLRJames' famous question: “what do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”, sought to challenge English cricket’s elitist historical orthodoxy, he failed in his task.
Given this failure, what is the authentic story of English cricket from the people’s perspective? #historyfrombelow
I found this interesting from the late #CLRJames www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
We'd need to be a #Republic by then
We'd need to be a #Republic by then
Every Cook Can Govern by C L R James
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February 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I found this interesting from the late #CLRJames www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
We'd need to be a #Republic by then
We'd need to be a #Republic by then
Nice surprise to see film historian Charles Barr in this doco on Alec Guinness.
Sent me a dvd of the classic #CLRJames doco he worked on in days before YouTube.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ea...
Sent me a dvd of the classic #CLRJames doco he worked on in days before YouTube.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ea...
Beyond a Boundary
YouTube video by susie2010ism
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February 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Nice surprise to see film historian Charles Barr in this doco on Alec Guinness.
Sent me a dvd of the classic #CLRJames doco he worked on in days before YouTube.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ea...
Sent me a dvd of the classic #CLRJames doco he worked on in days before YouTube.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ea...
#blackhistorymonth #the1619project #caste #isabelwilkerson #nikolehannahjones #stampedfromthebeginning #ibramxkendi #wearetheleaderswehavebeenlookingfor #eddiesglaudejr #themessage #tanehisicoates #theblackjacobins #clrjames #thefirstandlastkingofhaiti #marlenedaut #halfamerican
February 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
L'Anticapitaliste📣 Recontextualiser les Jacobins noirs: La réédition des Jacobins noirs de C. L. R. James par les éditions d’Amsterdam en 2018 rend possible de revoir les Antilles et Amériques noires dans la période… 📣NPA-A #JacobinsNoirs #CLRJAMES #Histoire #RévolutionFrançaise #Antilles
Recontextualiser les Jacobins noirs
La réédition des Jacobins noirs de C. L. R. James par les éditions d’Amsterdam en 2018 rend possible de revoir les Antilles et Amériques noires dans la période révolutionnaire de 1789 et après.
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January 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
L'Anticapitaliste📣 Recontextualiser les Jacobins noirs: La réédition des Jacobins noirs de C. L. R. James par les éditions d’Amsterdam en 2018 rend possible de revoir les Antilles et Amériques noires dans la période… 📣NPA-A #JacobinsNoirs #CLRJAMES #Histoire #RévolutionFrançaise #Antilles
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1901, #Marxist author #CLRJames was born in #Trinidad. Known for books on the #HaitianRevolution and #PanAfrican revolt, here is one of his on #DirectDemocracy, since so many people falsely believe Marxism requires #bureaucracy.
www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
January 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1901, #Marxist author #CLRJames was born in #Trinidad. Known for books on the #HaitianRevolution and #PanAfrican revolt, here is one of his on #DirectDemocracy, since so many people falsely believe Marxism requires #bureaucracy.
www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
A Microcosm of the World: C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite: The complete, unaired 1976 BBC interview:
#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
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#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
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December 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
A Microcosm of the World: C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite: The complete, unaired 1976 BBC interview:
#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
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