Pre-war scholarship saw Black movements as scattershot local episodes, not one coherent tradition
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- The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition. (similarity 0.88)
- Black masses organized openly while intelligentsia pursued supplication (similarity 0.87)
- Early Black historiography challenged exclusion while accepting dominant values (similarity 0.87)
- Historical materialism fails to capture the full historical being of Black peoples. (similarity 0.87)
- Historical materialism fails to capture Black historical being as more than opposition to capital (similarity 0.86)
- Black anti-imperialist intellectuals centered their struggle in the British metropole (similarity 0.86)
- Black-white racial collisions predated modern slavery by a thousand years (similarity 0.85)
- Lenin viewed American Blacks as the vanguard of revolution in the United States (similarity 0.84)
- Black Marxism orients its historical scholarship toward present and future action (similarity 0.84)
- Radical Black activists turned to Pan-Africanism while keeping Marxist critiques of capitalism (similarity 0.84)
- Wright held that Black US development was capital’s most total contradiction (similarity 0.83)
- Wright grounded his Western critique in diasporic Black historical experience. (similarity 0.83)
- Reconstruction historiography erased Black agency and labor exploitation (similarity 0.83)
- Black radical theory was nurtured in the diaspora, not in Africa itself. (similarity 0.83)
- Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.82)