Black radical consciousness grew from American social history of racialized labor

Evidence

Experiences such as these, coupled with his father’s abandonment of his family, his mother’s breakdown and paralysis, his short but nightmarish stay in an orphanage, had predictable results on Wright’s personality. But most can be directly and not too indirectly traced to their bases in American social history, particularly where Black labor had been employed. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2458

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s origin question — psychological formation traced to material bases in Black labor under American social history, not to abstract ‘marginality.’ — connects to: US identity movements grew out of prior anti-war and Black radicalization spaces — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 255