Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

by Cedric J. Robinson

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469663724
• ISBN13: 9781469663722
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"