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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
3. C.L.R. James’s Perspectives on Pan-Africanism and Trade Unionism
Author : Jerome Teelucksingh
Published in: Ideology, Politics, and Radicalism of the Afro-Caribbean
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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Abstract
Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in 1901 in the colony of Trinidad and Tobago. As a precocious teenager, he attended the prestigious Queen’s Royal College in the colony’s capital of Port-of-Spain. James displayed early traits of being both a rebel and idealist. He found it difficult to accept the yardstick used by the colonial society to judge success and failure. For instance, the Caribbean society believed that respect and success could only be achieved by becoming a doctor, lawyer, or politician. James never sought to conform to the established order who viewed the Black man as inferior. James became a respected thinker through his books which included State Capitalism and World Revolution, Beyond a Boundary, A History of Pan-African Revolt, and Minty Alley.