Cedric Robinson’s directorship of the Center for Black Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara reflected his genius as a radical communitarian during an era in which the US academy as a whole set itself on a path of increasing cultural and social isolation from mainstream society. As an academic enterprise, the Center mirrors the radical conservationism inherent in Black Marxism’s recuperation of the Black radical tradition.
Richard A. Posner , Public Intellectuals: a study of decline ( Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 2001).
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Chuck Morse , ‘Capitalism, Marxism, and the Black radical tradition: an interview with Cedric Robinson,’Perspectives on Anarchist Theory (No. 3, Spring 1999) online at <http://perspectives.anarchist-studies.org/5robinsoninterview.htm>.
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Ibid. See also Nikhil Pal Singh , Black Is a Country: race and the unfinished struggle for democracy ( Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 2004).
