Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 436 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780807876121
Content:
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 resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright.
Content:
Contents -- Foreword (by Robin D. G. Kelley) -- Notes -- Preface to the 2000 Edition -- Notes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I.The Emergence and Limitations of European Radicalism -- 1. 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 -- Notes -- 2. 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 -- Notes -- 3. 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 -- Notes -- Part II. The Roots of Black Radicalism -- 4. 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 -- Notes -- 5. 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" -- Notes -- 6. The Historical Archaeology of the Radical Black Tradition -- History and the Mere Slave -- Reds, Whites, and Blacks -- Black for Red.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807848296
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Robinson, Cedric J., 1940 - 2016 Black Marxism Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2000 ISBN 0807848298
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807848296
Language:
English
Keywords:
Schwarze
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Marxismus
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Radikalismus
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Afrika
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Marxismus
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USA
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Marxismus
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Schwarze
