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Black marxism

the making of the Black radical tradition

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An edition of Black Marxism (1983)

Black marxism

the making of the Black radical tradition

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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 must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of blacks on western continents, Robinson argues, 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.

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436

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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
2002, The University of North Carolina Press
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2000, University of North Carolina Press
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Table of Contents

Radical capitalism: the nonobjective character of capitalist development
The English working class as the mirror of production
Socialist theory and nationalism
The process and consequences of Africa's transmutation
The Atlantic slave trade and African labor
The historical archaeology of the Black radical tradition
The nature of the Black radical tradition
The formation of an intelligentsia
Historiography and the Black radical tradition
C.L.R. James and the Black radical tradition
Richard Wright and the critique of class theory.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-429) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
335.43/0917/496
Library of Congress
HX436.5 .R63 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 436 p. ;
Number of pages
436

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OL22370165M
Internet Archive
blackmarxismmaki0000robi
ISBN 10
0807848298
LCCN
99030995
Library Thing
399916
Goodreads
200142

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The historical development of world capitalism was influenced in a most fundamental way by the particularistic forces of racism and nationalism.
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