A wave of Black radical books appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Evidence

This is what the Black radical tradition made manifest. It was a consciousness implicated in what Amos Tutuola so many generations later would name “the bush of the ghosts.” In the twentieth century, when Black radical thinkers had acquired new habits of thought in keeping, some of them supposed, with the new conditions of their people, their task eventually became the revelation of the older tradition. Not surprisingly, they would discover it first in their history, and finally all around them. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 838 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Twentieth-century Black radical thinkers rediscovered their tradition through history — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 838; Black radicalism matured largely unconscious of itself as a unified tradition; The radical intelligentsia found, not invented, the Black Radical Tradition

Related

• Twentieth-century Black radical thinkers rediscovered their tradition through history (similarity 0.91)
• Black radicalism evolved without conscious self-awareness as a tradition (similarity 0.87)
• Western scholars long denied any coherent tradition of Black radicalism (similarity 0.84)
• The Black radical tradition challenges Western radicalism’s claims about capitalism and the vanguard intelligentsia. (similarity 0.84)
• Black radical theory was discovered in mass movements, not invented (similarity 0.84)
• Black radicalism is a distinct tradition, not a Black variant of Western radicalism (similarity 0.83)
• The tradition let Black thinkers reject Western radicalism’s universal claims (similarity 0.83)
• The Black radical movement outweighed Marxism’s influence even on its most Westernized intellectuals (similarity 0.83)
• Black intellectuals’ nurture as Blacks outweighed Marxism in forging radical consciousness. (similarity 0.82)
• Black radicalism’s unconsciousness of itself as tradition has costs (similarity 0.82)
• Surrealism served Black radicals as recognition, not invention (similarity 0.82)
• The Black radical tradition matured across continents while never consciously recognizing itself (similarity 0.82)
• Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition (similarity 0.82)
• The Black radical tradition abandons Western ideologies for its own independent authority. (similarity 0.81)
• The Black radical tradition challenged Western radicalism’s assumptions about capitalism and ideology (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Twentieth-century Black radical thinkers rediscovered their tradition through history #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 838
• The radical intelligentsia found, not invented, the Black Radical Tradition #corroborates (0.70)
• Black radicalism matured largely unconscious of itself as a unified tradition #complicates (0.60)