Black radical tradition explained

The Black radical tradition^[1] is a philosophical tradition and political ideology with roots in 20th century North America. It is a "collection of cultural, intellectual, action-oriented labor aimed at disrupting social, political, economic, and cultural norms originating in anti-colonial and antislavery efforts."^[2] It was first popularised by Cedric Robinson's book Black Marxism.^[3]

Influential concepts from the Black radical tradition include abolition, racial capitalism, and intersectionality. The Black radical tradition is closely related to anti-colonial, decolonial thought and Marxist third worldism.^{[4] [5]}

Prominent figures and movements associated with the Black radical tradition include W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis, the civil rights movement, Black feminism, Négritude, Afrocentrism, the Black Consciousness and Black Power movements; contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter have also been included in the tradition. A prominent Black Radical journal is Race & Class.^[6]

Thinkers

• Herbert Aptheker
• Ella Baker
• Amiri Baraka
• Gargi Bhattacharyya^[7]
• Steve Biko
• Amílcar Cabral^[8]
• Aimé Césaire
• Oliver Cox
• Basil Davidson
• Angela Davis^[9]
• Aria Dean^[10]
• Frederick Douglass
• W. E. B. Du Bois^[11]
• Frantz Fanon^[12]
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore^[13]
• Paul Gilroy^[14]
• Lewis Gordon^[15]
• Stuart Hall^[16]
• Fred Hampton
• Harry Haywood
• Gerald Horne^[17]
• George Jackson^[18]
• Mumia Abu Jamal
• C. L. R. James^[19]
• Claudia Jones
• Robin Kelley^[20]
• Audre Lorde^[21]
• Katherine McKittrick^[22]
• Achille Mbembe^[23]
• Mao Zedong^[24]
• Fred Moten
• John Narayan^[25]
• Huey P. Newton^[26]
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Luke De Noronha.^[27]
• George Padmore
• Geronimo Pratt
• A Philip Randolph
• Cedric Robinson^[28]
• Walter Rodney^[29]
• Assata Shakur
• Ambalavaner Sivanandan^[30]
• Barbara Smith^[31]
• Ahmed Sékou Touré
• Kwame Ture^[32]
• Cornel West^[33]
• Eric Williams^[34]
• Ida B Wells
• Robert F. Williams
• Sylvia Wynter^[35]
• Malcolm X^[36]

See also

• 21st-century communist theorists
• Autonomism
• Critical race theory
• Combahee River Collective
• Coloniality of power
• Decoloniality
• Neo-Marxism
• New Communist movement
• Post-Marxism
• Postcolonialism
• Prison abolition movement
• Socialism of the 21st century

Notes and References

1. Web site: What Is This Black in the Black Radical Tradition? . 2023-04-16 . Verso . en.
2. Web site: "The Black Radical Tradition of Resistance" U-M LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity . 2023-04-16 . lsa.umich.edu . en.
3. Web site: Winterhalter . Elizabeth . 2021-11-11 . Cedric Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition . 2023-04-16 . JSTOR Daily . en-US.
4. Pulido . Laura . De Lara . Juan . March 2018 . Reimagining 'justice' in environmental justice: Radical ecologies, decolonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition . Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space . en . 1 . 1–2 . 76–98 . 10.1177/2514848618770363 . 2514-8486. free .
5. Knox . Robert . Kumar . Ashok . 2023-08-03 . Reexamining Race and Capitalism in the Marxist Tradition – Editorial Introduction . Historical Materialism . 31 . 2 . 25–48 . 10.1163/1569206x-bja10012 . 1465-4466. free .
6. Web site: Race & Class . 2023-05-24 . Institute of Race Relations . en-GB.
7. Web site: Rethinking Racial Capitalism . 2023-04-19 . blackwells.co.uk . en.
8. Book: Resistance and Decolonization . en-us.
9. Web site: Angela Davis: An Interview on the Futures of Black Radicalism . 2023-04-19 . Verso . en.
10. Web site: Notes on Blacceleration - Journal #87 . 2023-05-18 . www.e-flux.com . en.
11. Burden-Stelly . Charisse . 2018-09-02 . W.E.B. Du Bois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness: Radicalism, Repression, and Mutual Comradeship, 1930–1960 . Socialism and Democracy . 32 . 3 . 181–206 . 10.1080/08854300.2018.1575070 . 150870410 . 0885-4300.
12. Book: Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral . en-us.
13. Web site: Oct. 8: Ruth Wilson Gilmore to speak . 2023-04-19 . UDaily.
14. Web site: "The People Who Keep on Going": A Futures of Black Radicalism Listenin . 2023-04-19 . Verso . en.
15. Web site: Fear of Black Consciousness: Lewis Gordon Interview Philosophy Break . 2023-05-18 . philosophybreak.com . en.
16. Web site: 230312 Exploring the Black Radical Tradition . 2023-04-19 . Bishopsgate Institute . 12 March 2023 . en.
17. Comrades in the Struggle for Black Freedom . 27150917 . Sinitiere . Phillip Luke . Phylon . 2022 . 59 . 1 . 107–127 .
18. Book: Berger, Dan . Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance . Chase, Robert T. . 355–384 . 'From Dachau with Love': George Jackson, Black Radical Memory, and the Transnational Political Vision of Prison Abolition . 2023-04-19 . academic.oup.com.
19. Robinson . Cedric J. . 1983 . C. L. R. James and the Black Radical Tradition . Review (Fernand Braudel Center) . 6 . 3 . 321–391 . 40240940 . 0147-9032.
20. Web site: Kelley . Robin . 2021 . Why Black Marxism, Why Now? . Boston Review.
21. Chapter One: Pedagogy, Politics, and Power: ANTINOMIES of the BLACK RADICAL TRADITION . 42978673 . Richards . Sandra . Lemelle . Sidney J. . Counterpoints . 2005 . 237 . 5–31 .
22. Web site: Black Radical Tradition Group . 3 October 2021 .
23. Book: Mbembe, Achille . Critique of Black Reason.
24. Kelley . Robin D.G. . Esch . Betsy . September 1999 . Black like Mao: Red China and black revolution . Souls . en . 1 . 4 . 6–41 . 10.1080/10999949909362183 . 143732016 . 1099-9949.
25. British Black Power: The anti-imperialism of political blackness and the problem of nativist socialism . 10.1177/0038026119845550 . 2019 . Narayan . John . The Sociological Review . 67 . 5 . 945–967 . 150411821 .
26. Web site: Black Radical Tradition . 2023-04-19 . Aaron Benanav . en-US.
27. Web site: Empire's Endgame . 2023-04-19 . Pluto Press . en-US.
28. Book: Robinson . Cedric J. . Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition . Sojoyner . Damien . Willoughby-Herard . Tiffany . 1983 . University of North Carolina Press . 978-1-4696-6372-2 . 3 . 10.5149/9781469663746_robinson .
29. Web site: Decolonial Marxism . 2023-04-19 . Verso . en.
30. Virdee . Satnam . 2000 . A Marxist Critique of Black Radical Theories of Trade-union Racism . Sociology . 34 . 3 . 545–565 . 10.1177/S003803850000033X . 42856201 . 146747065 . 0038-0385.
31. Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will be Free . The New Yorker . 20 July 2020 . Taylor . Keeanga-Yamahtta .
32. News: Hirsch . Afua . 2018-08-14 . Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews – review . en-GB . The Observer . 2023-05-20 . 0029-7712.
33. Black Radicalism and the Marxist Tradition . 10.14452/MR-040-04-1988-08_5 . 1988 . West . Cornel . Monthly Review . 40 . 4 . 51 . free .
34. Web site: SO4C2 Racial Capitalism .
35. Sex/Sexuality & Sylvia Wynter's "Beyond...": Anti-Colonial Ideas in "Black Radical Tradition" . 23019781 . Thomas . Greg . Journal of West Indian Literature . 2001 . 10 . 1/2 . 92–118 .
36. Rabaka . Reiland . November 2002 . Malcolm X and/as Critical Theory: Philosophy, Radical Politics, and the African American Search for Social Justice . Journal of Black Studies . en . 33 . 2 . 145–165 . 10.1177/002193402237222 . 145478798 . 0021-9347.