So it was that I became one of those dark men whose 'surest… - C. L. R. James

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So it was that I became one of those dark men whose 'surest sign of ... having arrived is the fact that he keeps company with people lighter in complexion than himself'.

C. L. R. James

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Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 19 May 1989) was a Trinidadian-born anti-colonial Marxist activist and writer.

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Native Name: Cyril Lionel Robert James

Alternative Names: CLR James • Nello • J. R. Johnson • J.R. Johnson • JR Johnson • C.L.R. James

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