Garvey’s race-first stance contained a persistent class dimension

Evidence

Much of Garvey’s hold on the masses was due to ideas not very different from some espoused by communists. Despite his firm espousal of the race-first principle, for example, there was a persistent class component to Garvey’s thinking. As against the white race, he saw the need for intraracial solidarity but within the race he demonstrated quite clearly that he identified with the oppressed masses against those with pretensions to more exalted status. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2234

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Illustrates the Black radical tradition’s ability to hold race and class together - central to the book’s argument and relevant to the reader’s goal of understanding the tradition’s rise.

Related

• Garvey’s race-first doctrine concealed a persistent class component (similarity 0.95)
• Garvey’s movement drew the same Southern Black farmers who followed Bishop Turner (similarity 0.81)
• Garveyism drew the same Southern Black rural base that supported Turner’s earlier emigrationism. (similarity 0.79)
• Historians studied Garvey the man instead of the UNIA masses he led (similarity 0.78)