The material conditions driving Black radicalism worsened through the end of the twentieth century

Evidence

The crises faced in the early 1980s have hardly abated. We enter the new millennium with fewer well-paying jobs, fewer protections for the rights of oppressed people, poorer health care, more prisons, more wealth for fewer people, more racist backlash, more misery. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 44

Categorization

• XREF: Provides context for the ‘downfall’ phase of the tradition the reader seeks — the conditions of the 1980s-90s that followed the movement’s height.