C. L. R. James on the Negro Question

by C.L.R. James

Book Overview

Best known for The Black Jacobins (1938), C. L. R. James was a pan-African historian and thinker who, upon arriving in the United States for a lecture tour in 1938, was warmly received by audiences, Black and white, throughout the country. Expelled under McCarthyism in the early fifties, he was branded an undesirable alien and thus was prevented from taking a more active role in the civil rights movement. In the intervening years, James wrote...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878058230
• ISBN13: 9780878058235
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"