Set the World on Fire

Blain, Keisha N.

doi:10.9783/9780812294774

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“…105 Like many black nationalist leaders, Jacques Garvey's thinking in this regard hinged upon the development of indigenous Africans by an African American professional class. 106 Jones, in contrast, was wary of Garvey's civilizational discourse, instead advocating for the dismantling of the capitalist world system of empires that exploited working-class and racialized peoples.…”

Section: Black Radical Journalistmentioning

confidence: 99%

Claudia Jones, International Thinker

Dunstan

Owens

2021

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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This article analyses the early international thought of Trinidad-born Marxist journalist Claudia Jones. We focus on a neglected aspect of Jones's intellectual production in the United States: her interrogation of geopolitics in her Weekly Review articles in the early 1940s. We situate Jones in relation to the contemporary popularization of geopolitical thought in this period, reading her alongside another neglected figure in histories of international thought, the African American geopolitical scholar and diplomatic historian Merze Tate. Jones read together the geopolitical, class, racialized, and anticolonial implications of the expanding Nazi empire, positioning her at the forefront of Marxist theoretical innovation in this period. Moving beyond studies of canonical texts and white male thinkers in international intellectual history, we build on black women's intellectual history to center a black working-class woman's popular theorizing of international relations.

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Section: Black Radical Journalistmentioning

confidence: 99%