Racialism was among the cultural terms shaping English working-class consciousness.

Evidence

And since I have argued that among these “cultural terms” was racialism, I shall hold Thompson to his word. … The Industrial Revolution, for one, was never quite the phenomenon it has become in the hands of some of its historians and in the popular mind. Much has been questioned since the popularization of the phrase in Arnold Toynbee’s Industrial Revolution (1884). Still the legend lingers. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 216

Categorization

• XREF: Central thesis claim tying racialism into the English working class, relevant to reader’s question about the origins of the Black radical tradition mirroring white working-class formation.