Shared displacement and hostility forged transcultural Black political organizations in Harlem

Evidence

The congregating of these peoples, the deep disruptions that accompanied their translocations, and the persistent hostility with which they were confronted forced them on to each other, politically and socially. As such it became necessary for them to develop social and political forms that would transcend the particularistic identities due to specific historical differences. It was within this particular milieu that both the UNIA and the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) emerged; and both would have enormous consequence for the American Communist Party’s efforts at organizing Blacks. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1003

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s governing question of the origins of Black radical organizational forms arising from specific social conditions rather than pure ideology.