Grants
Past grant recipients have included:
- Abahlali baseMjondolo
- Project to translate works of Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, and Selma James into Zulu.
http://www.abahlali.org - Coalition of Immokalee Workers
- http://www.ciw-online.org
- The Jena Six Defense Fund
- http://jena6.vesana.com
The C.L.R. James Journal Electronic Transformation Project
The Onyx Foundation is pleased to announce a grant has been awarded to the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA). This grant is to assist in the transformation of their newly designated official organ, The C.L.R. James Journal, into a source available on the Internet. The grant will help the CPA compose and design a Web site where content from current and past issues may reach a wider audience. This will expand the journal from a print-only source to one where content is also available online.
Past issues of The C.L.R. James Journal have featured such vibrant scholars as Paget Henry, Brinda Mehta, Lewis Gordon, Teodros Kiros, Selwyn Cudjoe, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Hilbourne Watson, Clevis Headley, Brian Meeks, Paul Buhle, Martin Glaberman, Anthony Bogues, Selwyn Cudjoe, Patricia Mohamed, Matthew Quest, and Marilyn Nissim-Sabat.
The philosophical and literary ideas and historical practice of protagonists such as Frantz Fanon, Tim Hector, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter Rodney, Wilson Harris, Rex Nettleford, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Manley, J.J. Thomas, Edwidge Danticat, and Cheddi Jagan have been examined. Alongside them have been reflections on African, Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, and Africana existentialist philosophies; visions of workers self-management and direct democracy; Shakespeare’s Caliban and steelband music; Rastafari and Black theology; Caribbean socialism and Pan-Africanism; Herman Melville and the Hegelian Dialectic; revolutionary consciousness and political parties; religious cosmologies and the postcolonial imagination; race, sexuality, gender and the Caribbean novel. All these rich philosophical, literary and historical themes could only be spawned by the life and work of one of the few thinkers with tremendous range who made so many genuine and significant contributions to the development of emancipatory ideas in the twentieth century. With this contribution we are confident the rich intellectual legacies of C.L.R. James are still a mine of ideas which shall produce many more profound insights for future philosophical and historical endeavors.
The Onyx Foundation is very excited to help make the ideas and scholars found in the pages of The C.L.R. James Journal more widely available for scholars, students, and community activists throughout the world via the Internet.