Wright held Black workers more alienated than white working classes

Evidence

Wright assumed that the alienation of Black workers from American society was more total than that experienced by the “white” working classes formed in Europe and America. This, indeed, was the more profound significance of Black nationalism, and one with which the Black intellectual had to come to terms: [T]he emotional expression of group-feeling which puzzles so many whites and leads them to deplore what they call “black chauvinism” is not a morbidly inherent trait of the Negro, but rather the reflex expression of a life whose roots are imbedded deeply in Southern soil. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1386

Categorization

• XREF: Extends from chapter one’s treatment of racial capitalism: Black alienated labor as the foundational contradiction of Western capitalism.