Cedric J. Robinson (1940-2016) was professor of Black studies and political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include The Terms of Order, An Anthropology of Marxism, and Forgeries of Memory and Meaning.

As Cedric Robinson's ideas guide us through an era when we are publicly reevaluating the structural racism embedded in all of our major institutions, we rely above all on his concept of racial capitalism and on his identification of an intellectual and activist culture of resistance--one he named the Black Radical Tradition. This is a text that should be read and reread and then read again.--Angela Y. Davis

A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought.--Cornel West, Monthly Review

Robinson demonstrates very clearly . . . the ability of the black tradition to transcend national boundaries and accommodate cultural, religious and 'racial' differences. Indeed, he shows that, in a sense, it has emerged out of the transformation of these differences.--Race and Class

A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought."—Cornel West, Monthly Review

[Black Marxism] has become an unlikely handbook for a new generation of radicals and activists."—London Review of Books

Robinson demonstrates very clearly . . . the ability of the black tradition to transcend national boundaries and accommodate cultural, religious and 'racial' differences. Indeed, he shows that, in a sense, it has emerged out of the transformation of these differences."—Race and Class

For those interested in pursuing political and ideological alternatives to capitalistic exploitation and underdevelopment of African peoples in the Americas and Africa, Black Marxism provides a well-documented foundation upon which to build ideological and mass social movements."—Phylon