"C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain" chronicles the life and work
of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during
his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals
the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's
intellectual and political trajectory. During this time, James
turned from liberal humanism to revolutionary socialism. Rejecting
the "imperial Britishness" he had absorbed growing up in a crown
colony in the British West Indies, he became a leading anticolonial
activist and Pan-Africanist thinker. Christian Hogsbjerg
reconstructs the circumstances and milieus in which James wrote
works including his magisterial study The Black Jacobins. First
published in 1938, James's examination of the dynamics of
anticolonial revolution in Haiti continues to influence scholarship
on Atlantic slavery and abolition. Hogsbjerg contends that during
the Depression C. L. R. James advanced public understanding of the
African diaspora and emerged as one of the most significant and
creative revolutionary Marxists in Britain.
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