Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays and Poems - Softcover

Carole Boyce Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 095624016X ISBN 13: 9780956240163

Publisher: AYEBIA CLARKE PUBLISHING LTD, 2010

Synopsis

Claudia Jones was a smart, politically-wise, brilliant, transnational feminist, Pan African theorist and cultural activist who brought together the politics that is now seen as a necessary way of intersecting a variety of political fields and positions. Known as the founder of the first London carnival and the editor of the first black newspaper, her activism bridged the black world politics of decolonization that ushered in contemporary communit empowerment. For the first time, her essays, poetry and writings are brought togther.

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About the Author

Carole Boyce Davies is an African Diaspora Studies scholar and professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008). With this her second book on Claudia Jones, Davies continues the task of ensuring that Claudia Jones takes her rightful place in the exalted list of twentieth-century Caribbean intellectuals in the Diaspora, including her compatriots George Padmore and C.L.R. James, who engaged with the world to make it a more enlightened place and whose legacy still deserves to resonate.

Edition details

• Publisher: AYEBIA CLARKE PUBLISHING LTD
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 095624016X
• ISBN 13: 9780956240163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240