Acknowledgements
A project such as this has a genealogy of decades of one life. Not everyone on the journey who has contributed can be thanked or even recalled. Some have fallen away, and some have replenished this fantastic voyage. Such an endeavour is never brought to completion without the support of numerous scholars, librarians, archivists, neighbours, friends, and community activists who willingly share the products of their own research, exchange ideas, perform other tasks requiring diligence, and express solidarity and encouragement.
The production of this book, one of what will hopefully be many on CLR James, has accrued many debts. Strategic advice, assistance, acts of kindness, the gathering and clarification of facts, discussion of interpretations, sharing of sources or hard to find materials. Some of those recognised have been noted in past research articles (if not centred in the citations of this project), and further acknowledgement will hopefully be present in future studies that will reach the public. These include, alphabetically, David Abdulah, Andaiye, Geri Augusto, David Austin, Bill Bachman, Ewa Bacon, Arnold Patrick Bathersfield, Ann Biersteker, Ama Biney, Anthony Bogues, Merle Bowen, Carole Boyce-Davies, Pleun Bruinewoud, Sebastian Budgen, Paul Buhle, Rufus Burnett, William Burns, Margaret Busby, Alrick X. Cambridge, Kevin Carson, Asselin Charles, Chinedu Chukwudinma, Martin Cox, Dennis Cremin, Amanda Crocker, Kenneth Cuno, Pascalis Delios, Sarah Derbew, Bruce Dixon and family, Rachel Douglas, Anani Dzidzienyo, Zophia Edwards, Mike Ermler, Nathalie Etoke, Barbara Foley, James Garrett, John Garvey, Joel Gilbert, Marty Glaberman, Loren Goldner, Berlinda Good, Nathaniel Green, Emily Greenwood, Anna Grimshaw, Cynthia Hamilton, Danny Hayward, Paget Henry, Robert A. Hill, Jan Hillegas, Christian Høgsbjerg, Pablo Idahosa, Lisa Jackson-Moore (and her daughters Celeste, Penelope, and Gabrielle), Selma James, Melinda Janki, Alvette Ellorton Jeffers, Ryan Cecil Jobson, Terry Johnson, Modibo Kadalie and family, Aaron Kamigisha, Gerry Kangalee, Jaafar Kassem-Ali and family, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barclay Key, Maina wa Kinyatti, Teodros Kiros, Nettie Kravitz, Eusi Kwayana and family, Dan La Botz, David Laibman, George Lamming, Amanda G. Latimer, Ken Lawrence and family, Paul Le Blanc, John W.I. Lee, Robert G. Lee, William Lefevre, Rupert C. Lewis, Roderick T. Long, Bertin M. Louis, Eileen MacMahon, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, Tony Martin, Joe Maxwell, Bruce Mazlish, Scott McLemee, Vincent Meessen, Isa-Kae Meksin, Adofo Minka, Vera Mitchell, Elizabeth Mohammed, Wilson Jeremiah Moses and family, Ian S. Moyer, Ani Mukherji, Jim Murray, Godwin Murunga, Simon Mussell, John Mussington, Ako Mutota, Kimani Nehusi, Aldon Nielsen, Patricia Ogedengbe, Akin Ogundiran, Daniel Orrells, Nana Osei-Opare, LaRose T. Parris, Kaneesha Parsard, Carmelita Pickett, Vincent Pirro, James Pope Jr., Carolyn J. Powell, Wayne Price, Rhoda Reddock, Bukka Rennie, Dave Renton, Mike Riccardi, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez, Dylan Rodriguez, Michele Valerie Ronnick, Andrew Rosa, Shemon Salam, Brinsley Samaroo, Raffique Shah, Siavash Shahabi, Alexandros Schismenos, Kevin Scott, Raffique Shah, Issa Shivji, Kathleen Shoemaker, Chris Shortsleeve, Consuelo Lopez Springfield, Michael Stauch, Margaret Stevens, Shahid Stover, Yavor Tarinksi, Jerome Teelucksingh, Michele Thieriault, Lorina Turner, William ‘Tex’ Turner, Terisa Turner, Akinyele Umoja, Phiroze Vasunia, Anthony Ware, Constance Webb, Patricia West, Nigel Westmaas, Charlene Wilkinson, Kent Worcester, and Ji Yeon-Yuh.
I thank the staff of the Walter Reuther Archive at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; Tamiment Library at New York University; Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University; Butler Library (RBML) at Columbia University; Beinecke Library at Yale University; Hay Library at Brown University; Alma Jordan Library at University of the West Indies Trinidad & Tobago (especially the West Indiana Archive); Boston University Library (Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Centre); Main Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana; Melville Herskovits Africana Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Main Library, Michigan State University; Robert Woodruff Library, Clark Atlanta University; John C. Hodges Library, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Ottenheimer Library, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Georgia State University Library in Atlanta; Rubenstein Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Florida International University Library, North Miami.
And last but not least to Angele, my love, who surprised me by placing ‘in the shadow of state power’ on one of our wedding cakes, with a peculiar image of a tired old man we know and love. Following the reminder of her parents, after many arduous circumstances on the journey we have known together, she has insisted that this project, and many others, be completed. She has breathed life into this vessel, my flesh and this project, which would have met an untimely demise without her.