Title Black marxism : the making of the Black radical tradition / Cedric J. Robinson ; with a new foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley ; and a new preface by Damien Sojoyner and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Edition Third edition, revised and updated Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020 ©1983

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Description 1 online resource (liii, 436 pages) Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Why Black Marxism? Why Now? -- Preface: Unhushable Wit: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the Classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson -- Preface to the 2000 Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Emergence and Limitations of European Radicalism -- 1. Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development -- Europe's Formation -- The First Bourgeoisie -- The Modern World Bourgeoisie -- The Lower Orders -- The Effects of Western Civilization on Capitalism 2. The English Working Class as the Mirror of Production -- Poverty and Industrial Capitalism -- The Reaction of English Labor -- The Colonization of Ireland -- English Working-Class Consciousness and the Irish Worker -- The Proletariat and the English Working Class -- 3. Socialist Theory and Nationalism -- Socialist Thought: Negation of Feudalism or Capitalism? -- From Babeuf to Marx: A Curious Historiography -- Marx, Engels, and Nationalism -- Marxism and Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Part 2. The Roots of Black Radicalism -- 4. The Process and Consequences of Africa's Transmutation The Diminution of the Diaspora -- The Primary Colors of American Historical Thought -- The Destruction of the African Past -- Premodern Relations between Africa and Europe -- The Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece, and Rome -- The Dark Ages: Europe and Africa -- Islam, Africa, and Europe -- Europe and the Eastern Trade -- Islam and the Making of Portugal -- Islam and Eurocentrism -- 5. The Atlantic Slave Trade and African Labor -- The Genoese Bourgeoisie and the Age of Discovery -- Genoese Capital, the Atlantic, and a Legend -- African Labor as Capital -- The Ledgers of a World System The Column Marked "British Capitalism" -- 6. The Historical Archaeology of the Black Radical Tradition -- History and the Mere Slave -- Reds, Whites, and Blacks -- Black for Red -- Black Resistance: The Sixteenth Century -- Palmares and Seventeenth-Century Marronage -- Black Resistance in North America -- The Haitian Revolution -- Black Brazil and Resistance -- Resistance in the British West Indies -- Africa: Revolt at the Source -- 7. The Nature of the Black Radical Tradition -- Part 3. Black Radicalism and Marxist Theory -- 8. The Formation of an Intelligentsia Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Black Middle Classes -- Western Civilization and the Renegade Black Intelligentsia -- 9. Historiography and the Black Radical Tradition -- Du Bois and the Myths of National History -- Du Bois and the Reconstruction of History and American Political Thought -- Slavery and Capitalism -- Labor, Capitalism, and Slavery -- Slavery and Democracy -- Reconstruction and the Black Elite -- Du Bois, Marx, and Marxism -- Bolshevism and American Communism -- Black Nationalism -- Blacks and Communism -- Du Bois and Radical Theory -- 10. C.L.R. James and the Black Radical Tradition 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"--Page 4 of cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-429) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Proquest, viewed January 5, 2024) Subject Communism -- Africa Communism -- Developing countries African American communists. Radicalism -- Africa -- History African Americans. African American. HISTORY / African American African American communists Communism Africa Developing countries Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Kelley, Robin D. G. Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, 1973- Sojoyner, Damien M. ISBN 9781469663739 1469663732 9781469663746 1469663740

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