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Black Marxism The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

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ISBN-10: 0807848298

ISBN-13: 9780807848296

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Cedric J. Robinson

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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 must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of blacks on western continents, Robinson argues, 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…    
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Book details

List price: $47.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Foreword
Preface to the 1999
Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Emergence and Limitations of European Radicalism
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
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
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
The Roots of Black Radicalism
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
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"
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
The Nature of the Black Radical Tradition
Black Radicalism and Marxist Theory
The Formation of an Intelligentsia Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Black Middle
Classes Western Civilization and the Renegade Black Intelligentsia
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
C. L. R. James and the Black Radical Tradition
Black Labor and the Black Middle Classes in Trinidad
The Black Victorian Becomes a Black Jacobin British
Socialism Black Radicals in the Metropole
The Theory of the Black Jacobin Coming to Terms with the Marxist Tradition
Richard Wright and the Critique of Class Theory Marxist
Theory and the Black Radical Intellectual
The Novel as Politics Wright's Social
Theory Blacks as the Negation of Capitalism
The Outsideras a Critique of Christianity and Marxism
An Ending
Notes
Bibliography
Index