Black radical historiography was founded by Western-educated Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals

Evidence

Therefore, the first waves of African New World revolts were governed not by a critique of Western society but rather a total rejection of the experience of enslavement and racism. More intent on preserving a past than transforming Western society or overthrowing capitalism, they created maroon settlements, ran away, became outliers, and tried to find a way home, even if it meant death. However, with the advent of formal colonialism and the incorporation of Black labor into a more fully governed social structure, a more direct critique of the West and colonialism emerged—a revolt set on transforming social relations and revolutionizing Western society rather then reproducing African social life. The contradictions of colonialism produced the native bourgeoisie, more intimate with European life and thought, whose assigned task was to help rule. Trained to be junior partners in the colonial state, members of this bourgeoisie experienced both racism from Europeans and a deep sense of alienation from their native lives and cultures. Their contradictory role as victims of racial domination and tools in the empire, as Western educated elites feeling like aliens among the dominant society as well as among the masses, compelled some of these men and women to revolt, thus producing the radical Black intelligentsia. It is no accident that many of these radicals and scholars emerged both during the First World War, when they recognized the vulnerability of Western civilization, and the second world crisis—the international depression and the rise of fascism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Twentieth-century Black radical thinkers rediscovered their tradition through history — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 838; Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21; Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie (similarity 0.92)
• Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it (similarity 0.89)
• The three intellectuals articulated rather than invented the Black radical idea (similarity 0.86)
• Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals embraced Marxism when racism betrayed their bourgeois universals (similarity 0.86)
• Ex-colonial intellectuals shaped the New Left and Cultural Studies from its origins (similarity 0.86)
• Black radicalism is an autonomous African response, not a Black variant of Western radicalism (similarity 0.85)
• The tradition let Black thinkers reject Western radicalism’s universal claims (similarity 0.85)
• Western scholars long denied any coherent tradition of Black radicalism (similarity 0.85)
• Black radicalism is a distinct tradition, not a Black variant of Western radicalism (similarity 0.84)
• The Black Radical Tradition accreted collective intelligence from generations of slave struggle (similarity 0.84)
• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology (similarity 0.84)
• The Black petit bourgeoisie’s hybrid Western education drove its radicalization and critique (similarity 0.84)
• The Black radical tradition challenged Western radicalism’s assumptions about capitalism and ideology (similarity 0.84)
• Western scholarship’s denial of Black radicalism served an ideology that obliterated the African (similarity 0.84)
• Anticolonial struggles birthed a Black radical intelligentsia that critiqued and relocated socialist theory (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21
• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology #contradicts (0.60)
• The three intellectuals articulated rather than invented the Black radical idea #contradicts (0.50)
• Black radicals rejected doctrinaire Marxism that subordinated Black struggle #complicates (0.30)