Tracing Black Radical Thought: Colonialism, Race, Class, Women and Gender in the Life and Works of C.L.R. James and Aime Cesaire
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation aims to illuminate the contours of the Black radical tradition, namely its anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist principles, through an examination of the lives and works of C.L.R. James and Aimé Césaire. There are four main goals here: (1) to introduce the trajectory and nuances of the Black radical tradition by way of the contributions of these two contemporaries, (2) to explore the varying expressions of these ideas through the span of several decades of the lives of James and Césaire, (3) to understand the portrayal of gender in some of their most important creative work, and (4) to think through the role that women played in their philosophical development and conception of revolutionary subjecthood.\n\nTo meet these objectives, I first interrogate the early life influences of the philosophers in the respective colonies they were born into, including their educational and familial backgrounds, then delve into their engagements with Marxism and left-wing thought more broadly, before considering how gender is presented in their creative writings, and finally how women factor in their emergence and projections of radicalism.\n\nThe method of comparative evaluation undertaken in this study lends itself to different pathways to apprehend some of James’ and Césaire’s most significant works. It thereby broaches ground for further research into these figures, while at the same time teasing out threads of the Black radical tradition that ultimately help to validate its utility as an analytical tool within the spectrum of humanist discourse. Moreover, the dissertation shows through the social and political thought of James and Césaire, two twentieth century thinkers from the Caribbean, lies a critical, internationalist, anti-oppressive framework aligned towards the betterment of humanity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".