American racism fused Black people into one mass preventing internal class divisions

Evidence

For Du Bois, the recovery of this last fact became as elementary to revolutionary theory as a recognition of the peasant masses whose revolts in Russia, Mexico, and China had rocked the ruling classes of the twentieth century. … The collective and individual identities of American workers had responded as much to race as they had to class. The relations of production were not determinant. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1438 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial ideology obscured America’s class divisions with a myth of unity.; Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries.; Racism as ideology, not production relations, blocked US class consciousness. (+7 more)

Related

• American workers’ identities responded as much to race as to class (similarity 0.90)
• Racial ideology obscured America’s class divisions with a myth of unity. (similarity 0.88)
• Race fractures the working classes internally in ways class alone cannot explain (similarity 0.87)
• Racism as ideology, not production relations, blocked US class consciousness. (similarity 0.85)
• Race prejudice, not class differentiation, united American Negroes economically (similarity 0.82)
• Racist ideology, not production relations, blocked American class solidarity. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalists deploy racism to fracture labor movements into competing factions (similarity 0.81)
• Racism, not production relations, blocked the rise of a US labor movement. (similarity 0.81)
• Economic forces, not race, united America’s ruling classes against Reconstruction. (similarity 0.80)
• Racial ideology in America concealed class divisions among whites (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalist proletarianization reproduced internal divisions rather than unifying the working class (similarity 0.80)
• Racism repeatedly divided American workers and crippled the labor movement (similarity 0.79)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.78)
• American slavery integrated Blacks into production while barring bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• American workers’ identities responded as much to race as to class #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1438
• Race fractures the working classes internally in ways class alone cannot explain #exemplifies (0.60)