Even liberal historians treated non-European peoples as entering history only through decolonization.

Evidence

In his final lecture, Carr observed: “It is only within the last two hundred years at most, even in a few advanced countries, that social, political, and historical consciousness has begun to spread to anything like a majority of the population. It is only today that it has become possible for the first time even to imagine a whole world consisting of peoples who have in the fullest sense entered into history and become the concern, no longer of the colonial administrator or of the anthropologist, but of the historian” (p. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1700

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Trevor-Roper’s ‘darkness is not a subject of history’ and the broader Eurocentric historiography Robinson dismantles across the book.