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Cedric Robinson Mini-Seminar: "Staging Black Radicalism"

*Sponsored by Critical Theory Institute and African American Studies

Readings

Professor Cedric J. Robinson is one of the foremost thinkers and writers on Black Radicalism in the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean. He is the author of the seminal work, Black Marxism (1983/1999), which traces the history and limits of European socialism and the emergence and development of Black radical thought. More recently, he published Forgeries of Memory and Meaning (2007), which analyzes race and "racial regimes" in early to mid 20th century U.S. film and theatre. Professor Robinson has written extensively about the historical and discursive antecedents of Marxism; US, African and Caribbean political thought; Western social theory; U.S. film and the media; anti-fascism in Africa and the African Diaspora; and the history of Black social movements and rebellions in the Americas. He is a member of the Race and Class editorial board and does extensive public radio and television work on the Santa Barbara based show he co-founded, Third World News and Review. He is Professor Emeritus in the Black Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara.

Corpus of Work (books)
* Forgeries of Memory & Meaning: Blacks & the Regimes of Race in American Theater & Film Before World War II. Chapel Hill, C:The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
* An Anthropology of Marxism. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. * Black Movements in America. New York: Routledge, 1997.
* Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. London:
Zed Books, 1983 (2nd ed., Chapel Hill, NC:The University of North
Carolina Press, 1999.)
* Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership.
Albany, NY:State University of New York Press, 1980.