Shared suffering forged a common task and vision across the African diaspora

Evidence

The peoples of Africa and the African diaspora had endured an integrating experience that left them not only with a common task but a shared vision. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 829

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sketching the unifying basis that the Black radical tradition will be defined against.
• XREF: connects to: Irish and Black families originally shared proximate poverty and mutual care — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 459; The middle passage’s trauma becomes a shared origin for collective identity. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 90