Overview
Cedric J. Robinson is considered one of the doyens of Black Studies and a pioneer in study of the Black Radical Tradition. His works have been essential texts, deconstructing racial capitalism and inspiring insurgent movements from Ferguson to the West Bank. For the first time, Robinson's essays come together, spanning over four decades and reflective of his diverse interests in the interconnections between culture and politics, radical social theory and classic and modern political philosophy. Themes explored include Africa and Black internationalism, World politics, race and US Foreign Policy, representations of blackness in popular culture, and reflections on popular resistance to racial capitalism, white supremacy and more. Accompanied by an introduction by H. L. T. Quan and a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, this collection, which includes previously unpublished materials, extends the many contributions by a giant in Black radical thought.
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Author: Cedric J. Robinson ,
H.L.T. Quan ,
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Weight: 0.589kg
ISBN: 9780745340036
ISBN 10: 0745340032
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 20 October 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Providing amazing political and intellectual history and extension beyond the already classic 'Black Marxism', the unexpected gift of these essays makes visible the praxis of Cedric Robinson' -- Carole Boyce Davies, author of 'Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones' 'There's no better time for the publication of this book... Cedric J. Robinson has it right!' -- Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, Columnist and Editorial Board member, theblackcommentator.com 'This astonishing collection lets readers see how Robinson elaborated the concept of racial capitalism, now so resonant in academia and beyond. It also shows us the wide-ranging intellect of Robinson, a deeply original and learned thinker on so many fronts' -- David Roediger, author of 'Class, Race and Marxism' 'Like W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Edward Said, Robinson was that rare polymath capable of seeing the whole. No discipline could contain him. He left behind a body of work to which we must return constantly and urgently' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination' 'Before the movement for black lives made black radicalism cool for millennials, Cedric Robinson did the work of excavating an intellectual history we rely upon today' -- The Root
'Like W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Edward Said, Robinson was that rare polymath capable of seeing the whole - its genesis as well as its possible future. No discipline could contain him. No geography or era was beyond his reach.... He left behind a body of work to which we must return constantly and urgently' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination' 'Before the movement for black lives made black radicalism cool for millennials, Cedric Robinson did the work of excavating an intellectual history we rely upon today' -- The Root
'Before the movement for black lives made black radicalism cool for millennials, Cedric Robinson did the work of excavating an intellectual history we rely upon today' -- The Root 'Like W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Edward Said, Robinson was that rare polymath capable of seeing the whole - its genesis as well as its possible future. No discipline could contain him. No geography or era was beyond his reach.... He left behind a body of work to which we must return constantly and urgently' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'
'providing amazing political and intellectual history and extension beyond the already classic 'Black Marxism', the unexpected gift of these essays makes visible the praxis of Cedric Robinson' -- Carole Boyce Davies, author of 'Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones' 'There's no better time for the publication of this book... Cedric J. Robinson has it right!' -- Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, Columnist and Editorial Board member, theblackcommentator.com 'This astonishing collection lets readers see how Robinson elaborated the concept of racial capitalism, now so resonant in academia and beyond. It also shows us the wide-ranging intellect of Robinson, a deeply original and learned thinker on so many fronts' -- David Roediger, author of 'Class, Race and Marxism' 'Like W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Edward Said, Robinson was that rare polymath capable of seeing the whole - its genesis as well as its possible future. No discipline could contain him. No geography or era was beyond his reach.... He left behind a body of work to which we must return constantly and urgently' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination' 'Before the movement for black lives made black radicalism cool for millennials, Cedric Robinson did the work of excavating an intellectual history we rely upon today' -- The Root
Author Information
Cedric Robinson was a Professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He headed the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science and served as the Director of the Center for Black Studies Research. His books include 'Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition' (1983); 'Black Movements in America' (1997); and 'Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership' (1980). H. L. T. Quan is a political theorist and an award-winning filmmaker. She is an Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Quan is the author of Growth Against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World and editor of Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the associate director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, and has served as the chair of the American Studies Association and received the 'Angela Davis Award for Public Scholarship'.
