Black American intellectuals underwent parallel embourgeoisement after 1960s radicalization

Evidence

That perfectly astute insistence on the specificity of Black experience in America, and on the historic roots of Blac~ America’s self-consciousness not in the generality of a ‘Third World’ but in the particularity of Africa, was, unfortunately, only part of the story. For apart from the almost spontaneously oppositionist positions which any Black intellectual, even of the most right-wing persuasion, feels compelled to adopt because of the racist juggernaut in which the whole of the African-American minority is held, this segment of the American intelligentsia has gone through those same processes of initially great radicalization in the 1960s, followed by increasing professionalization and embourgeoisement from the mid 1970s onwards, which has been characteristic of the United States as a whole. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 346

Categorization

• XREF: Provides factual context for how identity-essentialist theory production from Black critics is itself class-positioned, relevant to Ahmad’s materialist critique of discourse-first moves. — connects to: Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology

Broader Connections

• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology #complicates (0.78)