Cedric J. Robinson

Cedric Robinson was a Professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He headed the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science and served as the Director of the Center for Black Studies Research. His books include 'Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition' (1983); 'Black Movements in America' (1997); and 'Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership' (1980). H. L. T. Quan is a political theorist and an award-winning filmmaker. She is an Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Quan is the author of Growth Against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World and editor of Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the associate director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, and has served as the chair of the American Studies Association and received the 'Angela Davis Award for Public Scholarship'. 

Foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Preface by Elizabeth Peters Robinson

Introduction: Looking for Grace in Redemption - H. L. T. Quan

Part I - On Africa and Black Internationalism

1. Notes Toward a “Native” Theory of History

2. In Search of a Pan-African Commonwealth

3. The Black Detective and American Memory

Part II - On Bourgeois Historiography

4. “The First Attack is an Attack on Culture”

5. Oliver Cromwell Cox and the Historiography of the West

6. Fascism and the Intersections of Capitalism, Racialism, and Historical Consciousness

7. Ota Benga’s Flight Through Geronimo’s Eyes: Tales of Science and Multiculturalism

8. Slavery and the Platonic Origins of Anti-democracy

Part III - On World Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy

9. Fascism and the Response of Black Radical Theorists

10. Africa: In Hock to History and the Banks

11. The Comedy of Terror

12. Ralph Bunche and An American Dilemma

Part IV - On Reality and Its (Mis)Representations

13. White Signs in Black Times: The Politics of Representation in Dominant Texts

14. The American Press and the Repairing of the Philippines

15. On the Los Angeles Times, Crack Cocaine, and the Rampart Division Scandal

16. Micheaux Lynches the Mammy

17. Blaxploitation and the Misrepresentation of Liberation

18. The Mulatta on Film: From Hollywood to the Mexican Revolution

19. Ventriloquizing Blackness: Eugene O’Neill and Irish-American Racial Performance

Part V - On Resistance and Redemption

20. Malcolm Little as a Charismatic Leader

21. The Appropriation of Frantz Fanon

22. Amilcar Cabral and the Dialectic of Portuguese Colonialism

23. Race, Capitalism, and the Anti-democracy

24. David Walker and the Precepts of Black Studies

25. The Killing in Ferguson

26. On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Index