Race prejudice, not class differentiation, united American Negroes economically

Evidence

There is a partial truth in this, and a partial falsehood… . American race prejudice has so pounded the mass of Negroes together that they have not separated into such economic classes; but on the other hand they undoubtedly have had the ideology and if they had been free we would have had within our race the same exploiting set-up that we see around about us. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 919

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to Robinson’s thesis that racial oppression and class formation intertwine in ways Marx’s framework could not capture, central to his definition of the Black radical tradition.