ABSTRACT
There are several entry points for examining the activist/intellectual who became Claudia Jones. Among these, her Caribbean American identity remains prominent. But in her later years, she would be central to the development of a Black British political identity after choosing exile in the then English colonial center of London. As cultural critic Stuart Hall appropriately asserted well before the popular discourses of globalization, the global has now become the local; indeed, they are imbricated, one in the other. Feminist thinking in the presence of globalization cannot help but be minimally transnational. A more fully relational scholarship and activism allows us to find models of this kind of work that already existed in prior and current activist/intellectual work. Claudia Jones’s art of Black left feminism is marked by the practice of a radical transnational poetics marked by insightful political analysis and action.
