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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (497 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9798890862433
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 335.430917/4096
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Why Black Marxism? Why Now? -- Preface: Unhushable Wit: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the Classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson -- Preface to the 2000 Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Part 2. 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 -- 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" -- 6. The Historical Archaeology of the Black Radical Tradition.
History and the Mere Slave -- Reds, Whites, and Blacks -- Black for Red -- Black Resistance: The Sixteenth Century -- Palmares and Seventeenth-Century Marronage -- Black Resistance in North America -- The Haitian Revolution -- Black Brazil and Resistance -- Resistance in the British West Indies -- Africa: Revolt at the Source -- 7. The Nature of the Black Radical Tradition -- Part 3. Black Radicalism and Marxist Theory -- 8. The Formation of an Intelligentsia -- Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Black Middle Classes -- Western Civilization and the Renegade Black Intelligentsia -- 9. Historiography and the Black Radical Tradition -- Du Bois and the Myths of National History -- Du Bois and the Reconstruction of History and American Political Thought -- Slavery and Capitalism -- Labor, Capitalism, and Slavery -- Slavery and Democracy -- Reconstruction and the Black Elite -- Du Bois, Marx, and Marxism -- Bolshevism and American Communism -- Black Nationalism -- Blacks and Communism -- Du Bois and Radical Theory -- 10. C. L. R. James and the Black Radical Tradition -- Black Labor and the Black Middle Classes in Trinidad -- The Black Victorian Becomes a Black Jacobin -- British Socialism -- Black Radicals in the Metropole -- The Theory of the Black Jacobin -- Coming to Terms with the Marxist Tradition -- 11. Richard Wright and the Critique of Class Theory -- Marxist Theory and the Black Radical Intellectual -- The Novel as Politics -- Wright's Social Theory -- Blacks as the Negation of Capitalism -- The Outsider as a Critique of Christianity and Marxism -- 12. An Ending -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Why Black Marxism? Why Now? -- Preface: Unhushable Wit: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the Classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson -- Preface to the 2000 Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Part 2. 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 -- 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" -- 6. The Historical Archaeology of the Black Radical Tradition.

History and the Mere Slave -- Reds, Whites, and Blacks -- Black for Red -- Black Resistance: The Sixteenth Century -- Palmares and Seventeenth-Century Marronage -- Black Resistance in North America -- The Haitian Revolution -- Black Brazil and Resistance -- Resistance in the British West Indies -- Africa: Revolt at the Source -- 7. The Nature of the Black Radical Tradition -- Part 3. Black Radicalism and Marxist Theory -- 8. The Formation of an Intelligentsia -- Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Black Middle Classes -- Western Civilization and the Renegade Black Intelligentsia -- 9. Historiography and the Black Radical Tradition -- Du Bois and the Myths of National History -- Du Bois and the Reconstruction of History and American Political Thought -- Slavery and Capitalism -- Labor, Capitalism, and Slavery -- Slavery and Democracy -- Reconstruction and the Black Elite -- Du Bois, Marx, and Marxism -- Bolshevism and American Communism -- Black Nationalism -- Blacks and Communism -- Du Bois and Radical Theory -- 10. C. L. R. James and the Black Radical Tradition -- Black Labor and the Black Middle Classes in Trinidad -- The Black Victorian Becomes a Black Jacobin -- British Socialism -- Black Radicals in the Metropole -- The Theory of the Black Jacobin -- Coming to Terms with the Marxist Tradition -- 11. Richard Wright and the Critique of Class Theory -- Marxist Theory and the Black Radical Intellectual -- The Novel as Politics -- Wright's Social Theory -- Blacks as the Negation of Capitalism -- The Outsider as a Critique of Christianity and Marxism -- 12. An Ending -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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