| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 436 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-429) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
In this text the author demonstrates that the efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate, because it presupposes European models of history. Black radicalism, he argues, must be linked to the African traditions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communism -- Africa.
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Communism. |
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Africa. |
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Communism -- Developing countries.
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Developing countries. |
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African American communists.
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African American communists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Robinson, Cedric J. Black marxism. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000 0807848298 (DLC) 99030995 (OCoLC)41238548 |
| ISBN |
0807876127 (electronic book) |
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9780807876121 (electronic book) |
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0807848298 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807848296 |
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