The Black Radical Tradition

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Cedric Robinson's 'Black Marxism' (1983) has long been taken as foundational to the Black Radical Tradition and specifically Black people's enduring resistances to racial oppression. For Robinson such resistances have not only been legible as class struggle, but as forms of political, spiritual, artistic, intellectual opposition and underground activism. What his work has left unaddressed is the nature of such resistances in gendered terms and in terms that move beyond the United States. This course attempts to expand the definition of what is 'Black' 'Radical' and a 'Tradition' conjoining histories of struggle in South Africa and the US while attentive to their gendered sensibilities.