C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain

Høgsbjerg, Christian

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“…The influential International African Service Bureau was a central institution for these radical West Indian thinkers in London. Run together with pan‐African scholars and activists, the Bureau notably shaped the organisation of the Pan‐African Congress in Manchester in 1945, which trailblazed the global decolonisation movement (see Bogues, 2003, p. 72; Høgsbjerg, 2014; Gopal, 2019, pp. 360, 385ff.).…”

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“…His reflections on the interrelation of knowledge production and the spatial politics of dislocation will be analysed in order to understand the perceptions among West Indian anti‐colonial intellectuals of the imperial politics of knowledge production (Gopal, 2019, p. 360ff, 385ff. ; Høgsbjerg, 2014; L. James, 2015, p. 69ff.…”

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Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

Cramer¹

2023

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This paper analyses the socio-spatial entanglement of West Indian anti-colonial knowledge production in the mid-20 th century existing between London and the Caribbean. This is interpreted as a case of the paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production in that British imperial policies that were constraining knowledge production in the West Indies were also seen as facilitating anticolonial awareness and work in London by West Indian actors. Research demonstrating the importance of the metropole as a meeting place for global anti-colonial actors is complemented by shifting the focus to the entangled space between London and the West Indies. This article comparatively analyses the academic politics of the British Colonial Office -a spatial dislocation of knowledge production away from the West Indies -and its perception and challenge by Caribbean intellectuals who were temporarily based in London. The analysis builds on contributions by C.L.R. James and S. Wynter and their reflections on the institutionalisation of research in the West Indies and their experiences in London. Overall, I emphasise a relational and symmetrising analysis of knowledge production in imperial contexts that accounts for the entanglement of imperial politics in the metropole and the colonies, and the perception and potential use of these political entanglements by actors in and from colonial contexts.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

Cramer¹

2023

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Barrack Yard Politics

Parsard¹

2018

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

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Can a Mulatta Be a Black Jacobin?

Chetty¹

2019

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This essay approaches the stage versions of Toussaint Louverture (1934) and The Black Jacobins (1967), first, to emphasize the role of C. L. R. James’s collaborations in the creation of the plays, and second, to argue that the latter version of the play presents a radical feminism that emerges precisely from these collaborations. One of the play’s most radical revisions is the centrality of the militant mulatta Marie-Jeanne, whose centrality challenges scholarly interpretations of James’s relationships with women and with feminism. This scholarship depicts James, at worst, as a paragon of patriarchy and, at best, as a man caught between the feminist politics of the women in his life and the constraints of a male-centered Caribbean revolutionary and anticolonial tradition. By contrast, this essay argues that the feminism in the play must be read beyond James the man and instead in the context of his collaborations, particularly with radical women thinkers.

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C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain

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Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

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