Terror and poverty turned the Black community inward and stabilized its internal stratification
Evidence
In this relative social isolation, its culture continued to adopt forms from the class peers from which it was estranged by race. But by the constant terror, the entire Black community had been turned in on itself; and by the persistence of poverty, its social stratifications had been stabilized. However, the resources of the Black community were too few to support a mobility of more than incremental significance. With the Black migration to the North and West, which occurred at the turn of the century, this situation would change but only slightly. Meanwhile, though Du Bois still could not admit it, the idealism of the Black petit bourgeoisie had been transformed into an ideology that served to hold the Black community as a semi-preserve for the more effective exploitation by its elite. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 975
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Du Bois’s own analysis in Black Reconstruction and to the general dynamic of racial capitalism the reader is tracing across this book. — connects to: De facto residential segregation by community emerged in Algiers cities during the terror.; Black radical violence turned inward toward collective being rather than outward against the system; The black church served as the primary autonomous arena for racial self-help after Reconstruction. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 52 (+1 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 975