“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”
from THE BLACK JACOBINS: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLUTION
- C.L.R. James, born 4 January 1901.
Influential Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His work is often associated with Caribbean and Afro-nationalism, though James himself contended that the "either-or" was a false dichotomy, and that Caribbean peoples were indebted to European as much as African cultural traditions. His history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938), is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora. Beyond a Boundary (1963), which he described as "neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography", mixes social commentary, particularly on the place of cricket in the West Indies and England, with commentary on the game, arguing that what happened inside the "Boundary Line" in cricket affected life beyond it, as well as the converse. The book is in a sense a response to a Rudyard Kipling quote from the poem "English Flag": "What do they know of England who only England know?", which James in his Preface revised to: "What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?" It is widely regarded as one of the best books ever written on sport.
from THE BLACK JACOBINS: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLUTION
- C.L.R. James, born 4 January 1901.
Influential Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His work is often associated with Caribbean and Afro-nationalism, though James himself contended that the "either-or" was a false dichotomy, and that Caribbean peoples were indebted to European as much as African cultural traditions. His history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938), is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora. Beyond a Boundary (1963), which he described as "neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography", mixes social commentary, particularly on the place of cricket in the West Indies and England, with commentary on the game, arguing that what happened inside the "Boundary Line" in cricket affected life beyond it, as well as the converse. The book is in a sense a response to a Rudyard Kipling quote from the poem "English Flag": "What do they know of England who only England know?", which James in his Preface revised to: "What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?" It is widely regarded as one of the best books ever written on sport.
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