A review by aimiller
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

4.0

This is a book I think I would rate higher if I was smarter/had read more of the source material. Robinson is relentlessly thorough, and this is a book I'm going to have to go back through again and again probably to get a real sense of. Nonetheless, I found especially the latter chapters about DuBois, James, and Wright really interesting, and it's made me want to go back and read and reread the works of Wright in particular through a new lens. I'm going to be working through what James means by the Black Radical Tradition for a while, I think because it's deliberately nebulous in a lot of ways, but it was definitely compelling and worth reading!