Scholarship on Black radicalism proliferated in the 1990s without citing Robinson.

Evidence

The Europeanists, whose historical scholarship Robinson challenges head-on, have never, to my knowledge, responded to his criticisms. Even the new generation of scholars examining race and Black movements have paid scant attention to Robinson’s insights. The 1990s witnessed the proliferation of scholarship on Black radicalism, the African Diaspora, the origins of Western racism, and the writings of Du Bois, James, and Wright, yet very few of these studies cite Robinson’s work. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 31

Categorization

• SEED: Possible article angle: the sociology of citation and canon formation — why the single most relevant book on Black radicalism was systematically ignored by the very field it founded.