Black communities can act as autonomous political forces rather than class fractions

Evidence

A key theme of The Empire Strikes Back is that the working class in Britain does not constitute a continuous historical subject; and that black communities can constitute themselves as a politically conscious, “racially demarcated class fraction.” It is in this sense that class cannot always be assumed to be the primary political force in any specific conjuncture. Thus black communities can act as autonomous political forces in any specific situations where their interests are threatened or attacked. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2199

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of a ‘racially demarcated class fraction’ as a theoretical alternative to class-primary analysis.
• XREF: Connects to Omi and Winant’s racial formation theory and the broader post-Marxist critique of class reductionism. — connects to: Black racial stereotypes in these samples depend entirely on social class, not race alone. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 157; Black elite status depended on the welfare of the whole black population; Exclusion from electoral politics drove black women to build their own representative bodies. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 690 (+1 more)