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Black Marxism : the making of the Black radical tradition / Cedric J. Robinson.

By: Robinson, Cedric J [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Chapel Hill] : University of North Carolina Press, 2000Edition: [New] edition / foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley ; with a new preface by the authorDescription: xxxiii, 436 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780807848296 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Communism -- Africa | Communism -- Developing countries | African American communists | Politics and Government | Politics and GovernmentDDC classification: 335.4'3'08996 Summary: In this text the author demonstrates that the efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate, because it presupposes European models of history. Black radicalism, he argues, must be linked to the African traditions.
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Previous edition: London: Zed, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this text the author demonstrates that the efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate, because it presupposes European models of history. Black radicalism, he argues, must be linked to the African traditions.

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