Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Justin Hansford, a law professor at Howard University, observed, “Anti-Blackness is a global phenomenon; although it manifests itself differently in different countries, it is part of the same hate, and it connects people who experience it all over the world.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1117 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French Negroes internalize conflict while American Negroes wage it openly; Communication infrastructures and racial inequity are co-constitutive across American history — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1160; Xhosa and Zulu resistance in southern Africa defined the nineteenth-century anti-colonial struggle (+20 more)

Related

• Black nationalism arose natively from Black super-exploitation in the United States (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie (similarity 0.83)
• Diaspora distance sharpened Black opposition’s theoretical comprehension (similarity 0.83)
• Anticolonial struggles birthed a Black radical intelligentsia that critiqued and relocated socialist theory (similarity 0.82)
• Black radical historiography was founded by Western-educated Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals (similarity 0.80)
• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.80)
• Black survival in struggle requires self-defined culture and consciousness, not imported theory (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Blackness forms a single connected global phenomenon (similarity 0.79)
• Xhosa and Zulu resistance in southern Africa defined the nineteenth-century anti-colonial struggle (similarity 0.79)
• Western scholarship’s denial of Black radicalism served an ideology that obliterated the African (similarity 0.79)
• Anticolonial and US civil rights struggles form one interconnected antiracist mobilization. (similarity 0.79)
• Negritude affirmed diasporic black solidarity across colonial and postcolonial geographies (similarity 0.79)
• Enslavement transferred complete African ontological and social systems to the Americas (similarity 0.79)
• Black resistance in the Caribbean shifted political power but incomplete autonomy (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie #expands (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21
• Anti-Blackness forms a single connected global phenomenon #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1117
• Black survival in struggle requires self-defined culture and consciousness, not imported theory #complicates (0.60)
• The slave trade supplied the cause that turned racialism into the Negro #expands (0.60)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• Contemporary US imperial racism echoes the founding wars against indigenous peoples #expands (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 7