Overview
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.
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Author: Cedric J Robinson ,
Robin D G Kelley ,
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard ,
Damien Sojoyner
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798212269896
Publication Date: 02 August 2022
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought."" -- ""Cornel West"""
A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought. -- Cornel West
Author Information
Cedric J. Robinson (1940-2016) was professor of Black studies and political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include The Terms of Order, An Anthropology of Marxism, and Forgeries of Memory and Meaning. Robin D. G. Kelley is Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and the author of several books, including Hammer and Hoe; Africa Speaks, America Answers; and Freedom Dreams. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is associate professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Damien M. Sojoyner is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. David Sadzin began using his voice to get attention in grade school, where his teacher thought he was awfully quiet until she gave him a paragraph to read out loud. After a few intense years on New York stages performing traditional and experimental theater and improv comedy, he is now comfortably settled in front of a mic in his home studio in Brooklyn, New York.
