Polemics of C.L.R. James and Contemporary Black Activism

Ornette D. Clennon is Visiting Research Fellow and a critical race scholar in The Research Centre for Social Change: Community Wellbeing, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK where he leads the Critical Race and Ethnicity Research Cluster. He is also Visiting Professor at the Federal University of the Amazonas, Brazil. He has written and published widely on a range of topics including community engagement, education and multiculturalism.

"Clennon, in particular, is to be congratulated for making the critical intellectual effort to try and wrestle theoretically with how James might have made sense of the contemporary critical moment in Britain, amid ‘Brexit’ and the rise of Corbynism." (Christian Høgsbjerg, Race & Class, Vol. 60 (4), April-June, 2019)​

• Introduction.- 1. A New Dawn. A New Day: Dialectical Materialism.- 2. All Together Now! The Rise of British Nationalism.- 3. When Will The Revolution Be Televised? The Decline of the Trades Unions and the Rise of the Consumer.- 4. We Don’t Need No Education. (Unless You’re Black). De-Colonised Education as a Tool for Political Activism.- 5. We Are The World. Racial Capitalism and its links with Pan Africanism.