Book

Black Marxism

The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Cedric Robinson

1983

The University of North Carolina Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Biography

Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy

Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found in the disinvested ruins of the city a new egalitarian form of politics.

by Jared A. Loggins via The Nation on April 18, 2022
Q&A

The Future of L.A. Is Here

On L.A. solidarity and the Black radical tradition.

by Robin D. G. Kelley, Vinson Cunningham via Los Angeles Times on March 17, 2021
Comment

Births of a Nation

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on March 6, 2017

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W.E.B. DuBois, seated in garden reading book, while Shirley Graham DuBois waters plants.

How Black Marxists Have Understood Racial Oppression

Black Marxist thought emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and the destructiveness of that oppression for all workers.

by Jeff Goodwin, Jonah Birch via Jacobin on February 17, 2025

St. Louis arch

The Arch of Injustice

St. Louis seems to define America’s past—but does it offer insight for the future?

by Steven Hahn via Public Books on February 16, 2021

lithograph of enslaved workers using a cotton gin.

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 2016

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