Question

This author described how his decision to join the Maple club delayed his political development and set him off from Learie Constantine and Wilton St. Hill for many years. A Joseph O'Neill essay quotes a book by this non-Kipling author in asking “What do they know of America who only America know?” A book by this author decries any attempt to understand the Victorian era without considering W. G. (*) Grace; that book is an autobiographical history of cricket titled Beyond a Boundary. (-5[1])Conversations with Léon Damas inspired a book by this author that (10[1])compared Pericles and Jefferson to Toussaint (10[1])L'Ouverture and argued the Haitian Revolution was the inheritor of French radical tradition. For 10 points, which Marxist Trinidadian scholar wrote The Black (10[1])Jacobins? ■END■

ANSWER: C.L.R. James [or Cyril Lionel Robert James]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb KendrickMaryland ARutgers Diaspora81-5
Vittal BhatGlass Onyen: A Knives Out MysteryFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them9210
Jonathan MaginMaryland B+The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs9810
Emmett LaurieRutgers DiasporaMaryland A12110

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2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%17%17%83.67
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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%0%82.67
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