C. L. R. James on the 'negro Question'

This volume, showing his distinctive Marxist perspective on black liberation, collects C.L.R. James's major essays, theoretical writings, and analyses written about African-American topics between 1939 and 1950 ... Included here are his articles about Marcus Garey, Richard Wright, and Eric Williams (whose Capitalism and Slavery James deeply influenced). Included too is his account of meetings with Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1939. A selecton of short essays on black history -- published under pseudonyms in American newspapers -- traces James's vision of the development of African-American resistance from the beginnings of slavery through the twentieth century. Also, [his] reports on white racism and on his work among American sharecroppers in the South [are included as well].