| Edition |
Revised and updated third edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 436 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The emergence and limitations of European radicalism. Racial capitalism : the nonobjective character of capitalist development -- The English working class as a mirror of production -- Socialist theory and nationalism -- The roots of Black radicalism. 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 -- Black radicalism and marxist theory. 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 -- An ending. |
| 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"-- JSTOR resource page, viewed October 20, 2021. |
| 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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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Robinson, Cedric J. Black marxism. Revised and updated third edition. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] 1469663724 (OCoLC)1195468275 |
| ISBN |
9781469663746 electronic book |
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1469663740 electronic book |
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9781469663739 electronic book |
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1469663732 electronic book |
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1469663724 |
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9781469663722 |
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