The Black movement’s revival turned James back toward his African roots

Evidence

Some came to understand something of what he expected of them. But he also learned: “[A] great deal of my time has been spent in seeing how much I failed to understand when I was young and my whole life was toward European literature, European sociology. Now I’m beginning to see and it is helping me to write.” Perhaps his long-awaited autobiography will ultimately demonstrate just how permanently their reflective gift of the Black radical tradition has affected him. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1323

Categorization

• XREF: This caps the chapter’s larger argument that both James and the Black radical tradition navigated a European-Marxist intellectual inheritance.