Winston James is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion; Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America, which won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association; and the co-editor of Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain.
