The Time of the Black Radical Tradition: Josh Myers on Cedric Robinson

"In his seminal text, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Cedric J. Robinson posits the group of black intellectuals challenging Marxism at the height of anti-colonial consciousness as forming a distinct, political tradition, one whose critiques constituted “the continuing development of a collective consciousness informed by the historical struggles for liberation and motivated by the shared sense of obligation to preserve the collective being, the ontological totality.” Josh Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He is the author of We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 as well as a new biography of Cedric Robinson, which is called Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition, forthcoming with Polity Books."