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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
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Cited edition: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, first published 1983; revised and updated 3rd edition, 2020.
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- Title
- Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
- Author
- Cedric J. Robinson
- Year
- first published 1983; revised and updated 3rd edition, 2020
- Document type
- Book
- Source class
- 1. Primary text (the thinker’s own work)
- Standpoint
- Movement: writes from inside the tradition
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place
- Chapel Hill
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The development, organization, and expansion of capitalist society pursued essentially racial directions, so too did social ideology. As a material force, then, it could be expected that racialism would inevitably permeate the social structures emergent from capitalism. I have used the term “racial capitalism” to refer to this development and to the subsequent structure as a historical agency.
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racialism would inevitably permeate the social structures emergent from capitalism
{"offset":160349}
Read in the named edition against the printed page.
racialism would inevitably permeate the social structures emergent from capitalism
{"offset":160349}
Read in the named edition against the printed page.
The development, organization, and expansion of capitalist society pursued essentially racial directions, so too did social ideology. As a material force, then, it could be expected that racialism would inevitably permeate the social structures emergent from capitalism. I have used the term “racial capitalism” to refer to this development and to the subsequent structure as a historical agency.
{"offset":160349}
Read in the named edition against the printed page.
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Cited By
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Robinson's Black Marxism (1983) named racial capitalism and the Black radical tradition.
Filed in: Dossier: Black Marxism · Dossier: Cedric J. Robinson · Dossier: Combahee River Collective
- documented
In Black Marxism, Robinson holds that capitalist society developed and expanded in essentially racial directions, and coins "racial capitalism" for the resulting structure.
Filed in: Decoder: Capitalism
- documented
Robinson holds that racialism would inevitably permeate the social structures emerging from capitalism.
Filed in: Decoder: Capitalism · Decoder: Racism
- assessed
Plain English for “Capitalism”: The universal defendant. Whatever the grievance, they run the chain of explanation back un...
Filed in: Decoder: Capitalism
- reported
The Combahee River Collective statement of 1977 introduced the term identity politics from inside socialism, arguing that the most radical politics come directly out of one’s own identity.
Filed in: Dossier: Combahee River Collective · Dossier: The Combahee River Collective Statement
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