Research Catalog

Title

Black marxism : the making of the Black radical tradition / Cedric J. Robinson ; with a new foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley ; with a new preface by Damien Sojoyner and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard.

Author

Robinson, Cedric J.

Publication

• Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kelley, Robin D. G.
• Sojoyner, Damien M.
• Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, 1973-

Description

xxxiii, 436 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism, Robinson argues, must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on Western continents, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by Blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century Black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright. This revised and updated third edition includes a new preface by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley"--

Alternative Title

Making of the Black radical tradition

Subject

• Communism > Africa
• Communism > Developing countries
• African American communists
• Radicalism > Africa > History
• Communism
• Africa
• Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. The emergence and limitations of European radicalism: 1. Racial capitalism: the nonobjective character of capitalist development ; 2. The English working class as the mirror of production ; 3. Socialist theory and nationalism -- Part 2. The roots of Black radicalism: 4. The process and consequences of Africa's transmutation ; 5. The Atlantic slave trade and African labor ; 6. The historical archaeology of the Black radical tradition ; 7. The nature of the Black radical tradition -- Part 3. Black radicalism and Marxist theory: 8. The formation of an intelligentsia ; 9. Historiography and the Black radical tradition ; 10. C. L. R. James and the Black radical tradition ; 11. Richard Wright and the critique of Class Theory ; 12. An ending.

Call Number

Sc E 21-517

ISBN

• 1469663724
• 9781469663722
• 9781469663715
• 1469663716

OCLC

1195468275

Author

Robinson, Cedric J., author.

Title

Black marxism : the making of the Black radical tradition / Cedric J. Robinson ; with a new foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley ; with a new preface by Damien Sojoyner and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

Revised and updated third edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Kelley, Robin D. G., writer of foreword.

Sojoyner, Damien M., writer of preface.

Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, 1973- writer of preface.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-517