Publisher's Synopsis
C.L.R. James (1901-1989), a prominent black Trinidadian intellectual who spent most of his life in England and the United States, has been increasingly recognized as a social critic, historian and cultural commentator of central importance. During the 1930s and 1940s James played a key role in the revolutionary socialist current associated with Leon Trotsky. This volume provides an in-depth look at James's "Trotkskyist years," presenting writings by James on Trotsky's life and work unavailiable in other collections. It also contains essays by James on the work of Richard Wright and Edmund Wilson, on the impact of European colonialism in Africa, on the relationship between US and international labour history, and on African-American history.
