An overview of the Caribbean region: Education in cultural context and a portrait of C. L. R. James of Trinidad

Abstract

Born in Trinidad in 1901, C. L. R. James challenged the formal education system--resisting authority, refuting colonial historical writing, and refusing to seek tertiary schooling. A self-made scholar and activist, he started his own university and struggled to help peasant workers, the poor, and non-Caucasians cheated by colonialism, capitalism, fascism, and racism