Third World liberation was the defining event of the twentieth century for Wright

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Wright’s originality, then, is that he completely understood and often reiterated… that the situation of the Black in the twentieth century, and in particular during the crucial period from the Depression to the advent of Black Power, was exceptional. These years saw the awakening of the Third World and with it the enormous mutation of our civilisation. “The liberation of the colored peoples of the world is the most important event of our century,” is a refrain that runs throughout Wright’s work. The same message, delivered half a century before by W. E. B. Du Bois, did not have the same existentialist dimension. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1336

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