Cedric Robinson

Cedric Robinson...

Black Radical Congress

In March 1998 “Endorsers of the Call” to found a Black Radical Congress included Cedric Robinson, Professor of Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA.

Race & Class

In 2009, the Editorial Working Committee of Race & Class, published on behalf of the UK based Institute of Race Relations, included John Berger, Lee Bridges, Victoria Brittain, Jan Carew, Jeremy Corbyn, Basil Davidson, Avery Gordon, Barbara Harlow, Saul Landau, Neil Lazarus, Manning Marable, Nancy Murray, Colin Prescod, Barbara Ransby, Cedric Robinson, Bill Rolston and Chris Searle.

Confronting Racial Capitalism conference

Paul Ortiz November 21, 2014:

With Cedric Robinson and Elizabeth Robinson in 2014 at the Confronting Racial Capitalism conference and thinking through the challenges we face today. The book that has grown from this collaboration, "Futures of Black Radicalism" is out NOW by Verso edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin and available for a 50% discount! . https://www.versobooks.com/books/2438-futures-of-black-radicalism — with Robin D. G. Kelley, Thulani Davis, Christina Heatherton, Danny Widener, Jordan T. Camp, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Elizabeth Robinson at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Help with Marxist book

In the 1983 book by famed black studies professor Cedric Robinson, “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition,” he listed Kamala Harris’ mother Shyamala Gopalan among the friends who helped him with his Marxism project.

“I humbly submit this work to you-and to the others with whom the project had its beginnings: Mary Agnes Lewis, Margot Dashiell, Frederick Douglas Lewis, Welton Smith, Sherman Williams, Nebby-Lou Crawford, Jim Lacy, Shyamala Gopalan, JayWright, J., Herman Blake, Don Hopkins, Henry Ramsey, Donald Warden. ..and the others I met along the way.”