Black radical revolt centered on the mind, not material conditions

Evidence

For the Africans whom Robinson identified as the progenitors of this tradition in the New World, he insists that the focus of their revolt “was [always] on the structures of the mind. Its epistemology granted supremacy to metaphysics not the material” (169). One can easily surmise from Black Marxism that surrealism might have been, at least for some, the missing link that brought Black intellectuals (especially in the Francophone world) face to face with the Black radical tradition. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 43

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of defining the Black radical tradition’s boundaries — a mind-centered epistemology is central to its contours.