In 1983, H. O. Nazareth directed a film called Talking History, which brought together E. P. Thompson and C. L. R. James in conversation. The soundtrack was composed by Spartacus R, former bassist for the Black Rock band, Osibisa. Over the twenty years since the publication of The Making of the English Working Class in 1963, Thompson had confronted several questions around colonialism, law, and constitutionalism that had not found emphasis in The Making. Talking History marks a unique point in the trajectory of Thompson's engagement with some of those questions, while simultaneously revealing the limits of that engagement. In addition to being a useful window into the political worldview of James and Thompson in the early 1980s, the film is also demonstrative of the afterlives of internationalism in the twentieth century. This article argues that revisiting internationalism, as a practice of political activism and critical dialogue, with its possibilities and limits, allows us to carefully rethink some of our contemporary political and intellectual practices.
Talking History
E. P. Thompson, C. L. R. James, and the Afterlives of Internationalism
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
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established and documented from the writings of C. L. R. James and Frantz Fanon to the prose of writers Mulk Raj Anand and Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Perhaps less well known is the relationship of anti-colonial intellectuals in helping to shape and provide an agenda
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Keith Hart
century, with Black intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James and Frantz Fanon offering a vision of the world that negated racial empire. M. K. Gandhi developed the most original global vision for the anti-colonial movement. If we wish to rethink
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Canon Fire
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paradox of C. L. R. James’ affinity for colonial forms of education, and his enduring love of British literature and poetry. The current ‘decolonizing the curriculum’ movement might therefore seem to be at odds with the tenor of earlier post
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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Gamed by the System
Exploring Black Male Youths’ Motivation to Participate in Sports
Deborwah Faulk, Robert A. Bennett III, and James L. Moore III
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Releasing a Tradition
Diasporic Epistemology and the Decolonized Curriculum
Jovan Scott Lewis
class bias. However, for the previous generation, colonial education remained the means by which respectable and therefore upwardly mobile Caribbean subjectivity was made. For thinkers of that generation like C. L. R. James, whose Marxist and radical
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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of sport (7): Geertz's Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1972), the ethnographic documentary Trobriand Cricket (1973) and C. L. R. James's colonial critique Beyond a Boundary (1963). The greatest merit of Besnier, Brownell and Carter's The
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Marxian anthropology resurgent
Patrick Neveling and Luisa Steur
cultures, and transcolonial capital. In this he often referred to—and was directly inspired by—radical Caribbean scholars like Eric R. Williams (1942 , 1944 ) and C. L. R. James (1938) , who thereby influenced Marxian anthropology, despite anthropology
