Wright saw racism as secondary to capitalist systemic integration

Evidence

Wright had emerged from the Depression with a clear and powerful image of American society and world history. With the writing of Uncle Tom’s Children and Native Son he had extracted from the misery of poverty and imminent social collapse an understanding of a systemic integration in which racism was a secondary, residual phenomenon. … Unlike Marx, Wright anticipated barbarism and socialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1382

Categorization

• XREF: This framing of racism as residual within a systemic whole becomes a target Wright himself later recalibrates — relevant to the tradition’s arguments about the priority of race vs class.