Black American experience holds world-historical proletarian significance

Evidence

Wright’s novel, subsequently, was a refutation of radical dogma from the vantage point of Black experience. He sought first to re-create that experience, and in so doing to force a confrontation between it and socialist ideology. Bigger Thomas’s character was specific to the historical experience of Blacks in the United States, but his nature was proletarian, that is world-historical. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1375

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: American literature’s defining traits are responses to an unacknowledged black presence. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 73