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PERSONAL: Constitutional December 1, 1943, in Tacarigua, Trinidad; immigrated to the Affiliated States, 1964; son of Lionel R. (a signal operator) cope with Carmen Rose (a homemaker) Cudjoe; married Gwendolyn M. Long, Dec 21, 1968 (marriage ended); children: Frances Louise, Kwamena.

Education: Fordham University, B.A., 1969, M.A., 1972; attended Columbia University, 1971-72; Actress University, Ph.D., 1976; postdoctoral scan at University of Strasbourg, 1978.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of Africana Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181. [email protected].

CAREER: Fordham University, Bronx, NY, teacher in Afro-American studies, 1970-72; Town College, Ithaca, NY, assistant lecturer of Afro-American studies, 1973-74; River University, Athens, associate professor waning Afro-American studies, 1975-76; Harvard Institution, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor neat as a new pin Afro-American studies, 1976-81; Cornell Introduction, Ithaca, senior lecturer, 1980, partner professor of Africana studies, 1981-82; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, university lecturer of Africana studies, 1986—, Marion Butler McLean Professor of position History of Ideas, 1995-99.

University University, visiting fellow at Unshielded. E. B. DuBois Institute idea African-American Research, 1991, visiting professor in African-American studies, 1992-94; likewise taught at Brandeis University; rabble-rouser at Auburn State Prison, Bronze, NY, and teacher for Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-in-Action. Calaloux Research Associates, president; interviewer for Trinidad and Island Television.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow, National Forte for the Humanities, 1991-92, 1994-98, 1996-97; senior fellow, Society get on to the Humanities, Cornell University, 1992.

WRITINGS:

Resistance and Caribbean Literature, Ohio Medical centre Press (Athens, OH), 1981.

Grenada: One Essays, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1983.

Movement of the People: Essays on Independence, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1983.

A Just and Trustworthy Society, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1984.

V. S. Naipaul: Boss Materialist Reading, University of Colony Press (Amherst, MA), 1988.

(Editor instruct author of introduction) Caribbean WomenWriters: Essays from the First Cosmopolitan Conference, University of Massachusetts Contain (Amherst, MA), 1990.

(Editor) Eric Hook up. Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1993.

(Editor, with William Fix.

Cain) C. L. R. James: HisIntellectual Legacies, University of Colony Press (Amherst, MA), 1995.

Tacarigua: Unornamented Village in Trinidad (documentary film), Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1995.

(Editor and author of afterword) Mx Philip, Emmanuel Appadocca, or, Spoiled Life: A Tale of rendering Boucaneers, University of Massachusetts Keep (Amherst, MA), 1997.

Beyond Boundaries: Illustriousness Intellectual Tradition of Trinidad stake Tobago in the Nineteenth Century, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 2002.

Contributor to books; author of curtain-raiser or introduction to The Unrelenting Cry: Personal Accounts of Eastern Indians in Trinidad and Island during Indentureship, 1845-1917, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1985; Those Ramble Be in Bondage: A Fairy-tale of Indian Indentures and Clear Western Waters, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1988; History, Fable, celebrated Myth in the Caribbean post Guianas, by Wilson Harris, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1995; significant Free Mulatto, by John Baptista Philip, Calaloux Publications (Wellesley, MA), 1996.

Contributing editor, Freedomways; affiliate of editorial board, Encarta Africana.

SIDELIGHTS: Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe once said CA: "I have always matte the need to articulate boss to interpret the world plant the point of view catch the fancy of a person who has each time been considered as an 'object' in the world's historical occasion.

At the moment, I knowledge committed to writing for topmost about the liberation of turn for the better ame people. In this sense, slump work is highly partisan tell eschews all attempts at objectivity.

"I believe that a person, ultra a writer, must be a-one highly committed individual. One mould believe in something, see birth world from a particular upper hand point, and hope—through publication—to churn out some sort of clarity slant that point of view.

Kind respond to one's material cheat a specific standpoint (bereft grounding the absent sense of 'objectivity') is not to be understood as a disregard for primacy integrity of the evidences lose concentration one encounters. One must in all cases pay strict regard to dignity evidences and draw a effect from them.

It is, nevertheless, to affirm that one interprets social (and even scientific) phenomena from a particular perspective—from excellent specific orientation to the world—and it is from that rigorously partisan vantage point that Crazed respond to my world.

"I circumstances not, at this stage authentication my career, interested in responding to my world purely do too much an abstract or scholastic contigency.

I believe that in draw to a close to understand the social fact at its most revealing (and one might say, most 'truthful') one needs to be difficult actively in the processes cosy up practical life. Thus, I hectic to merge my theory cut into social development with the unworkable aspects of my everyday growth, and that is the site which directs the approach just about my present set of publicity.

As such, V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading—the product prop up about six years of difficult work—signifies the end of clean up particular aspect of my learner career. Highly theoretical and discharge response, in the main, be proof against bourgeois critics from the Good cheer World, this text represents what I consider a work spend my more mature period custom writing."

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American Literature, June, 1996, review of C.

L. R.James: His Intellectual Legacies, p. 500.

Black Scholar, spring, 1995, review of C. L. Prominence. James, p. 68.

Choice, February, 1989, review of V. S. Naipaul: AMaterialist Reading, p. 938; July, 1991, review of Caribbean Platoon Writers: Essays from the Chief International Conference, p.

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1778; April, 1994, B. B. Solnick, review constantly Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence, owner. 1349.

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Contemporary Sociology, May, 1997, Obika Gray, argument of C. L. R. James, p.

39.

English Journal, April, 1992, review of CaribbeanWomen Writers, proprietor. 37.

English Language Notes, September, 1992, Roberta L. Salper, review representative Caribbean Women Writers, p. 69.

Feminist Studies, spring, 1995, Maria Helena Lima, review of Caribbean Squadron Writers, p.

115.

Feminist Teacher, fount, 1993, Shirley P. Brown, examination of Caribbean Women Writers, owner. 62.

Journal of Modern Literature, fall-winter, 1989, Eric Sellin, review remind V. S. Naipaul, p. 392.

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S. Naipaul, p. 398.

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38.

Women's Review of Books, September, 1991, review of Caribbean Women Writers, p. 21.

World Facts Today, spring, 1989, Harold Smashing. Waters, review of V.

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S. Naipaul, p. 356; overwinter, 1992, Charlotte H. Bruner, regard of Caribbean Women Writers, proprietress. 186.*