James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989
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found: The case for West-Indian self-government ... 1933.
found: C.L.R. James's Caribbean, 1992:CIP galley (d. May 1989)
found: Contemp. authors:v. 128 (James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert), 1901-1989; pseud.: J.R. Johnson; b. 1-4-1901 in Chaguanas, Trinidad; d. 5-31-1989 in London; political organizer, historian, journalist, translator, author, Marxist intellectual of many talents; teacher and magazine editor in Trinidad until moving to England in early 1930's; became cricket editor for Manchester guardian; moved to U.S. in 1938; expelled in 1953 and spent remainder of his life in England; some political pamphlets appeared under his pseudonym, J.R. Johnson)
found: The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 17, 2014:(Cyril Lionel Robert James; James, C.L.R.; eminent pan-africanist; born in Tunapuna, Trinidad in 1901; studied and became a teacher at Queen's Royal College; sailed off for England in 1932; became a columnist for cricket in the Manchester Guardian; traveled to the United States in 1938 at the behest of the Socialist Workers Party; deported from the United States to England in 1953; during the 1970s traveled extensively throughout Africa, Europe, and America, delivering lectures on history, politics, literature, and art; taught at the University of the District of Columbia for most of the 1970s; died in London in 1989)
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2022-07-08: revised
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