Winston Jamesis professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author ofA 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 ofInside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain.