Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.
Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas. Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Foreword / Robert A. Hill xiii Haiti / David M. Rudder xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Rethinking The Black Jacobins / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg 1 Part I. Personal Reflection 1. The Black Jacobins in Detroit: 1963 / Dan Georgakas 55 2. The Impact of C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins / Mumia Abu-Jamal 58 3. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, and The Making of Haiti / Carolyn E. Fick 60 4. The Black Jacobins, Education, and Redemption / Russell Maroon Shoatz 70 5. The Black Jacobins, Past and Present / Selma James 73 Part II. The Haitian Revolution: Histories and Philosophies 6. Reading The Black Jacobins: Historical Perspectives / Laurent Dubois 87 7. Haiti and Historical Time / Bill Schwarz 93 8. The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History / David Scott 115 9. Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins / Nick Nesbitt 139 10. "We Are Slaves and Slaves Believe in Freedom": The Problematizing of Revolutionary Emancipation in The Black Jacobins / Claudius Fergus 162 11. "To Place Ourselves in History": The Haitian Revolution in British West Indies Thought before The Black Jacobins / Matthew J. Smith 178 Part III. The Black Jacobins: Texts and Contexts 12. The Black Jacobins and the Long Haitian Revolution: Archives, History, and the Writing of Revolution / Anthony Bogues 197 13. Refiguring Resistance: Historiography, Fiction, and the Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick 215 14. On "Both Sides" of the Haitian Revolution? Rethinking Direct Democracy and National Liberation in The Black Jacobins / Matthew Quest 235 15. The Black Jacobins: A Revolutionary Study of Revolution, and of a Caribbean Revolution / David Austin 256 16. Making Drama our of the Haitian Revolution from Below: C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins Play / Rachel Douglas 278 17. "On the Wings of Atalanta" / Aldon Lynn Nielsen 297 Part IV. Final Reflections 18. Afterword to The Black Jacobins's Italian Edition / Madison Smartt Bell 313 19. Introduction to the Cuban Edition of The Black Jacobins / John H. Bracey 322 Appendix 1. C. L. R. James and Studs Terkel Discuss The Black Jacobins on WFMT Radion (Chicago), 1970 329 Appendix 2. The Revolution in Theory / C. L. R. James 353 Appendix 3. Translator's Foreword by Pierre Naville to the 1949 / 1983 French Editions 367 Bibliography 383 Contributors 411 Index 415
Foreword / Robert A. Hill xiii Haiti / David M. Rudder xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Rethinking The Black Jacobins / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg 1 Part I. Personal Reflection 1. The Black Jacobins in Detroit: 1963 / Dan Georgakas 55 2. The Impact of C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins / Mumia Abu-Jamal 58 3. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, and The Making of Haiti / Carolyn E. Fick 60 4. The Black Jacobins, Education, and Redemption / Russell Maroon Shoatz 70 5. The Black Jacobins, Past and Present / Selma James 73 Part II. The Haitian Revolution: Histories and Philosophies 6. Reading The Black Jacobins: Historical Perspectives / Laurent Dubois 87 7. Haiti and Historical Time / Bill Schwarz 93 8. The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History / David Scott 115 9. Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins / Nick Nesbitt 139 10. "We Are Slaves and Slaves Believe in Freedom": The Problematizing of Revolutionary Emancipation in The Black Jacobins / Claudius Fergus 162 11. "To Place Ourselves in History": The Haitian Revolution in British West Indies Thought before The Black Jacobins / Matthew J. Smith 178 Part III. The Black Jacobins: Texts and Contexts 12. The Black Jacobins and the Long Haitian Revolution: Archives, History, and the Writing of Revolution / Anthony Bogues 197 13. Refiguring Resistance: Historiography, Fiction, and the Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick 215 14. On "Both Sides" of the Haitian Revolution? Rethinking Direct Democracy and National Liberation in The Black Jacobins / Matthew Quest 235 15. The Black Jacobins: A Revolutionary Study of Revolution, and of a Caribbean Revolution / David Austin 256 16. Making Drama our of the Haitian Revolution from Below: C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins Play / Rachel Douglas 278 17. "On the Wings of Atalanta" / Aldon Lynn Nielsen 297 Part IV. Final Reflections 18. Afterword to The Black Jacobins's Italian Edition / Madison Smartt Bell 313 19. Introduction to the Cuban Edition of The Black Jacobins / John H. Bracey 322 Appendix 1. C. L. R. James and Studs Terkel Discuss The Black Jacobins on WFMT Radion (Chicago), 1970 329 Appendix 2. The Revolution in Theory / C. L. R. James 353 Appendix 3. Translator's Foreword by Pierre Naville to the 1949 / 1983 French Editions 367 Bibliography 383 Contributors 411 Index 415
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