Brett St Louis is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published widely on race and racism and is an editorial board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies and New Formations.

• IntroductionModern Epiphanies: C.L.R. James and the Reimagining of Modernity Chapter 1‘They brought themselves’: Modernity and the Emergence of the Black Jacobins Chapter 2‘Elective Affinities’ and the Intellectual Vocation: Race, Politics, and Poetics Chapter 3The Perilous ‘Pleasures of Exile’: Faith, Failed Gods, and the Diasporic Life Chapter 4Mapping Spontaneity: The Organic Unity of Self-Activity and Radical Struggles Chapter 5‘Freedom is creative universality, not utility’: Sociality and the Cultural Politics of Cricket Epilogue‘The Struggle for Happiness’: From Epiphany to Poiesis

Brett St Louis is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published widely on race and racism and is an editorial board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies and New Formations.

• IntroductionModern Epiphanies: C.L.R. James and the Reimagining of Modernity Chapter 1‘They brought themselves’: Modernity and the Emergence of the Black Jacobins Chapter 2‘Elective Affinities’ and the Intellectual Vocation: Race, Politics, and Poetics Chapter 3The Perilous ‘Pleasures of Exile’: Faith, Failed Gods, and the Diasporic Life Chapter 4Mapping Spontaneity: The Organic Unity of Self-Activity and Radical Struggles Chapter 5‘Freedom is creative universality, not utility’: Sociality and the Cultural Politics of Cricket Epilogue‘The Struggle for Happiness’: From Epiphany to Poiesis