the making of the Black radical tradition Robinson, Cedric J. (Cedric James) 1940-2016 creator Kelley, Robin D. G. (Robin Davis Gibran) 1962- foreword text bibliography ncu Chapel Hill, N.C University of North Carolina Press c2000 2000 monographic eng

print

xxxiii, 436 pages ; 24 cm. In this 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. 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 Cedric J. Robinson ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley ; with a new preface by the author. Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-429) and index. f------ d------ n-us--- Communism Africa Comunismo Africa Communism Developing countries Comunismo Países en desarrollo African American communists HX 436.5 R658b 2000 335.43/0917/496 0807848298 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780807848296 (pbk. : alk. paper) 99030995 http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/toc/99030995.html http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/toc/99030995.html DLC 990416 20240730132104.0 1213967 eng