The ABB’s target audience shifted from Hamitics to Africans to Negroes to Black workers

Evidence

The Brotherhood’s beginnings inadvertently exposed a degree of identity-confusion among its founders. A similar confusion would mark its appeals and the designation of the audience the organization presumed to address. In the next decade, that audience would be transformed from Hamitics to Africans, then Negroes and, finally, Black workers. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1020

The Brotherhood’s beginnings inadvertently exposed a degree of identity-confusion among its founders. A similar confusion would mark its appeals and the designation of the audience the organization presumed to address. In the next decade, that audience would be transformed from Hamitics to Africans, then Negroes and, finally, Black workers. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1020

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Documents the fluid, contested naming of the black radical subject across a single decade.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1020