C. L. R. James

The authorities additionally record the headings CLR James, Nello, Cyril Lionel Robert James, J. R. Johnson and J.R. Johnson. His recorded language was English.

He married Selma James and Constance Webb.

C. L. R. James worked in politics, journalism, translation, creative and professional writing and non-fiction literature.

He was employed by University of the District of Columbia and The Guardian.

Works recorded as notable number 4: The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, Minty Alley and World Revolution.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 539 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

8 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

O épico e o trágico na história do Haiti, Estudos Avançados, 2004. Escritas do impensável: figurações do passado haitiano, Esboços, 2025. Vom Antikolonialismus zu globalen Gebeten ohne Marx: Über die Ungewöhnlichkeit der so-genannten Postkolonialisierung. Kommentar zu Stephan Lanz’ „Über (Un-) Möglichkeiten, hiesige Stadtforschung zu postkolonialisieren“, Sub\urban, 2015. Graphic Histories of Solidarity, in Solidarity, Kronos, 2024. A INVENÇÃO DO CARIBE COMO CONTRACULTURA E A REVOLUÇÃO CUBANA, Revista Brasileira do Caribe, 2014. The critique of modernity from the Caribbean: black readings in (white) philosophy of history, Poligramas, 2020. Strange Encounter of the Third Kind, Serendipities, 2020. O humanismo crítico de Edward W. Said Edward W. Said's critical humanism, Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 2008.

6 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution (1977) — Internet Archive. facing reality (1974) — Internet Archive. The Future In The Present (1977) — Internet Archive. A history of pan-African revolt (1969) — Internet Archive. James, C. L. R. Los Jacobinos Negros [1938] [2003] (2003) — Internet Archive. Beyond a Boundary (1963) — Internet Archive.

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Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 25 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

C. L. R. James studied at Queen's Royal College. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is politics, journalism and translation.

Employment is recorded with University of the District of Columbia and The Guardian.

Works named in the authority record are The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, Minty Alley and World Revolution.