The Black radical tradition has persistent phenomenology, epistemology, and metaphysical boundaries of its own.

Evidence

What events have been most consistently present in its phenomenology? Which social processes has it persistently reiterated? From which social processes is it demonstrably, that is, historically alienated? How does it relate to the political order? Which ideographic constructs and semantic codes has it most often exhibited? Where have its metaphysical boundaries been most certainly fixed? What are its epistemological systems? — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 830

Categorization

• DEFINE: The chapter’s organizing questions, defining what a ‘nature’ of a tradition means: phenomenology, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology — the categories of analysis to come.