Wright located workers’ political consciousness in hidden depths of personality

Evidence

For Wright the question of the consciousness of workers and consequently that of political organization was more complex. It involved—as he was to write in defense of Native Son—“the dark and hidden places of the human personality.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1369

Categorization

• DEFINE: In a single line, Robinson marks Wright’s divergence from the CP’s formal class-consciousness model toward a psychological interiority the party framework excluded.