The Black Jacobins Reader

CONTENTS

Foreword | Robert A. Hill
Haiti | David M. Rudder
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking The Black Jacobins
Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg

PART I. Personal Reflections
1 The Black Jacobins in Detroit: 1963
Dan Georgakas

2 The Impact of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins
Mumia Abu-Jamal

3 C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, and The Making of Haiti
Carolyn E. Fick

4 The Black Jacobins, Education, and Redemption
Russell Maroon Shoatz

5 The Black Jacobins, Past and Present
Selma James

PART II. The Haitian Revolution: Histories and Philosophies
6 Reading The Black Jacobins: Historical Perspectives
Laurent Dubois

7 Haiti and Historical Time
Bill Schwarz

8 The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History
David Scott

9 Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins
Nick Nesbitt

10 “We Are Slaves and Slaves Believe in Freedom”: The Problematizing of Revolutionary Emancipationism in The Black Jacobins
Claudius Fergus

11 “To Place Ourselves in History”: The Haitian Revolution in British West Indian Thought before The Black Jacobins
Matthew J. Smith

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

13 Refiguring Resistance: Historiography, Fiction, and the Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture
Charles Forsdick

14 On “Both Sides” of the Haitian Revolution? Rethinking Direct Democracy and National Liberation in The Black Jacobins
Matthew Quest

15 The Black Jacobins: A Revolutionary Study of Revolution, and of a Caribbean Revolution
David Austin

16 Making Drama out of the Haitian Revolution from Below: C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins Play
Rachel Douglas

17 “On the Wings of Atalanta”
Aldon Lynn Nielsen

18 Afterword to The Black Jacobins’s Italian Edition
Madison Smartt Bell

19 Introduction to the Cuban Edition of The Black Jacobins
John H. Bracey

Appendix 1. C. L. R. James and Studs Terkel Discuss The Black Jacobins on WFMT Radio (Chicago), 1970

Appendix 2. The Revolution in Theory
C. L. R. James

Appendix 3. Translator’s Foreword by Pierre Naville to the 1949 / 1983 French Editions

Bibliography
Contributors
Index