Twentieth-century Black radical thinkers rediscovered their tradition through history

Evidence

This is what the Black radical tradition made manifest. It was a consciousness implicated in what Amos Tutuola so many generations later would name “the bush of the ghosts.” In the twentieth century, when Black radical thinkers had acquired new habits of thought in keeping, some of them supposed, with the new conditions of their people, their task eventually became the revelation of the older tradition. Not surprisingly, they would discover it first in their history, and finally all around them. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 838

Categorization

• QUESTION: Tutuola’s ‘bush of the ghosts’ as a metaphor for Black radical consciousness is an evocative image worth chasing.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 838
• XREF: connects to: Black radicalism matured largely unconscious of itself as a unified tradition; The radical intelligentsia found, not invented, the Black Radical Tradition; Black radicalism evolved without conscious self-awareness as a tradition (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Black radicalism matured largely unconscious of itself as a unified tradition #qualifies (0.80)
• Black radicalism evolved without conscious self-awareness as a tradition #qualifies (0.80)
• The radical intelligentsia found, not invented, the Black Radical Tradition #corroborates (0.75)
• Black radical historiography was founded by Western-educated Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie #expands (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21