Podcast appearances and mentions of Cedric J Robinson

Cedric J. Robinson reflects on the power and limitations of Marxism while charting the past and prospects of black radical thought.

¡Mike Davis, presente! Three longtime allies of Mike Davis (1946–2022) will discuss the life and legacy of the author, geologist, historian, and organizer—and the inspiration we take from his life and work for the struggles ahead. Speakers: Angela Y. Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Davis grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and has been an activist and Marxist-Feminist in the Black Power and abolitionist movements since the late 1960s. In the 1980s, her book Women, Race and Class helped to establish the concept of intersectionality. She also helped to develop the concept of prison abolition, especially in her books Are Prisons Obsolete? and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire. Recently, Dr. Davis has written about the international movement in solidarity with Palestine in Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Her work helped to lay the theoretical groundwork for the #DefundthePolice movement. Davis's memoir was recently published in a new edition by Haymarket Books. Geri Silva, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, has spent the past 40 years in all forms of struggle for human, political, and economic rights. Her activity covers the span from immigration rights to welfare rights to the right to decent housing for all in need. For the past 20-plus years she has fought against the rampant and ongoing abuses in the courts and at the hands of the police. Silva is a founding member of Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (Mothers ROC) in 1992, Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (FACTS) in 1996, Fair Chance Project (FCP) in 2009, California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC) in 2011, and FUEL—Families United to End LWOP (Life Without Parole) in 2017. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press). Recent publications include “Beyond Bratton” (Policing the Planet, Camp and Heatherton, eds., Verso); “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence” (Futures of Black Radicalism, Lubin and Johnson, eds., Verso); a foreword to Bobby M. Wilson's Birmingham classic America's Johannesburg (U Georgia Press); a foreword to Cedric J. Robinson on Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance (HLT Quan, ed., Pluto); Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso), and, co-edited with Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). Forthcoming projects include Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket). Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. In April 2019 novelist Rachel Kushner profiled Gilmore in The New York Times Magazine. Recent honors include the SUNY-Purchase College Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize for Social and Environmental Justice (2015-16); the American Studies Association Richard A Yarborough Mentorship Award (2017); The Association of American Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (2020); and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/u5xtmUWdWbc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Continental philosopher and assistant professor of Philosophy and Women Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Elisabeth Paquette, joins Am Johal to speak about her latest book, Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou. Elisabeth speaks about some of her transformative moments as a continental philosopher, including an essential question posed to her by Paget Henry, and her experience joining the Black Lives Matter Charlotte Protests in 2016. Her and Am also speak about the important questions surrounding ideas of justice, how justice can be emancipatory, and the ways that states fail in enacting justice — due to its deep foundations upon race and culture. Elisabeth spends time critiquing Badiou's class-first philosophies that undermines possibilities for universality in the sense of race, and then discusses the histories of Marxism centering on whiteness and Eurocentric attitudes. She also speaks about the importance of positive conceptions of race, and draws from Sylvia Wynter to determine that true universal emancipation needs to be filled with the varied and particular knowledges of racialized folks. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/156-elisabeth-paquette.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/156-elisabeth-paquette.html Resources: — Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou, by Elisabeth Paquette: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Universal-Emancipation-Race-beyond-Badiou-Paquette/30926172047/bd — LGBTQ Staff and Faculty Caucus at UNC Charlotte: https://qtsfc.charlotte.edu/about-u — Decolonial Feminist Politics Workshop: https://decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com/ — Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Coulthard: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/red-skin-white-masks — Glen Coulthard on Below the Radar: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/37-glen-coulthard.html — Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon: http://abahlali.org/files/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdf — Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/

Finishing up our 3-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism." Next week (or in two weeks, or sooner...) we will be talking about "Punch Me Up to the Gods" by Brian Broome.

We're back with part two of the three-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism." Next, we'll be wrapping up the trilogy.

This week in part 1 of a 3-part series I read the first third of Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition."

This episode is dedicated to the memory and power of the victims of white domestic terrorism in Atlanta, the survivors and their families as well as the victims and survivors of all forms of sinophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-sex work and anti-Asian xenophobia/ US imperialist violence against Asian bodies happening all around the globe. If you would like to join us in a moment of silence, fast forward to the 1:54:28. This episode is also dedicated to Stacey Park Milbern, one of the creators of the disability justice movement. We also dedicate this episode to the Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP). The transcript at 1:55:00 is from a livestream of a community vigil held in the victims' honor and in solidarity with Black and Indigenous sovereignty. Cash App: $mpopsea, Venmo: MPOP_SEA Recommended Reading: -Resisting State Violence by Dr. Joy James (Ericka reads an excerpt from that book in this episode) -Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson -Some Reasons For Chinese Exclusion: Meat v Rice, American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism (Author Unknown) -Essay on Japanese American Beauty Pageants and Minstrel Shows during political imprisonment by the FDR administration during WWII by Malia McAndrews: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/536560/summary -Search for articles on the history behind yellow peril movement, Richard Aoki, FBI Informant who joined Black Panther Party in the 60s -Note on Marxism: Engels' father owned a factory and Marx was white and didn’t understand that capitalism is always racialized like Cedric Robinson and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore talk about - check the book out if you want, there are some goods in Marx’s Capital Illustrated by David Smith -Lisa Simpson and Samaria Rice Official Statement: https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/official-statement-from-samaria-rice-mother-of-tamir-rice-lisa-simpson-mother-of-richard-risher-and-the-collective/ How to Support Samaria and Lisa: Cashapp-$SamariaRice Cashapp: $lisalee693 Support Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) List of Black Owned Bookstores: https://nonamebooks.com/Bookstores Zora's Daughters Podcast: https://zorasdaughters.com/ Music by Benjamin Earl Turner-Apathy Happy Editors Note: Both Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel wore Blackface

Episode 9 explores the antinomies of autonomy and self-emancipation in the thought of C.L.R. James. Dr. William Clare Roberts joins us to discuss James’ legacy and how it fits into his book project on the history of “history from below.” Please be advised that a side-effect of this episode may be republicanism. (No, you Yanks, not the GOP. It’s the Black Jacobins, get it?)References:CLR James, The Black Jacobins, (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).CLR James, World Revolution 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017)CLR James. Radical America, vol. IV, no. 4 (May 1970): https://repository.library.brown.edu/storage/bdr:89210/pdf/Selma James, “The Perspective of Winning,” (1973); in Sex, Race, and Class: A Selection of Writings, 1952-2011 (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012).“CLR James talking to Stuart Hall,” Channel 4, dir. Mike Dibb (1984): https://youtu.be/_Gf0KUxgZfIWilliam Clare Roberts, “Centralism is a dangerous tool: Leadership in CLR James’ history of principles,” forthcoming in The CLR James Journal (2021).William Clare Roberts, Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880 (New York: The Free Press, 1998).Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000).Music: "Vintage Memories" by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

Image: Pauulu Kamarakafego As we have explored in previous programs, in fact, as we have attempted to unpack in every program, Black internationalism is an intentional disruption; a radical intervention in the global terms of order [nod to Cedric Robinson]. In order to understand Black internationalism as a critical disruption, a radical intervention, we must unpack it. The concept, international, as understood in dominant discourse [opposed to discourse on the periphery, discourses from below] is related to the creation and forced imposition of the nation-state, birthed from a European historiography/historicity as the dominant mechanism that organizes human life. The imposition of mechanisms, such as colonialism and chattel slavery, for instance, rooted in a specific epistemology was necessary to structure institutions and forms of knowledge that [re]conceptualized what it means to be human as the justification for and maintenance of the idea private property. Being so, international indicates a relationship at various levels of communities of people across [artificial] boundaries. It is from here, Black international/ism, then, is understood as a radical disruption of these systems and institutions. What must not be lost in this praxis, is the fact that this radical disruption is simultaneously a clear articulation and theorization of Black Power. Cedric Robinson asserts that “[Physically and ideologically, and for rather unique historical reasons, African peoples bridge the decline of one world order and the eruption (we may surmise) of another. It is a frightful and uncertain space of being.] If we are to survive, we must take nothing which is dead and choose wisely among the dying. [The industrial nations are self-destructing. Others, too, of course, will be affected]” [Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition [1983]), 316]. This assertion is certainly true on many levels but requires a simultaneously developed alternative foundation to build upon, as the wise choices must be planted into something. Today, we explore the ideas and argument in, Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice as presented by Quito Swan. Properly situated, we can see Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice presents a framework for that alternative. The possibilities of inventing the future. Pauulu's Diaspora is a mapping of Black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, through the life and work of twentieth-century radical Pauulu [Powlu] Kamara-kafego. In this work, Dr. Quito Swan is disrupting and challenging limited conceptualizations and understandings of Black Power by situating it, properly, in an international context. Dr. Swan offers us a map on how Pauulu was following in the long tradition of those who came before. A genealogy of Black internationalism's praxis of resistance. Quito Swan is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he directs the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture. He is a historian of Black internationalism, global Black Power and the Black Pacific. Dr. Swan is the author of many articles as well as, The Struggle for Decolonization: Black Power in Bermuda. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program!

In this episode,we speak w/returning guest Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly about W.E.B. Du Bois, radical blackness,& black internationalism --- Readings & Resources Charisse Burden-Stelly & Gerald Horne - W.E.B. Du Bois:A Life in American History https://www.amazon.com/W-B-Du-Bois-American/dp/1440864969/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dubois+charisse+burden-stelly&qid=1577219962&sr=8-1 Charisse Burden-Stelly “W.E.B. Du Bois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness:Radicalism, Repression, & Mutual Comradeship, 1930–1960” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300.2018.1575070 “In Battle for Peace during ‘Scoundrel Time’: W.E.B. Du Bois & United States Repression of Radical Black Peace Activism" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/in-battle-for-peace-during-scoundrel-time/F81265698C05F13CE8B852BF54014461/share/cc938e6f2392f29081d80e1178b9fb664f66e9d4?fbclid=IwAR3px-OtNOrURUApKIwFWeePtfBR0Kia6pyBSSYio1Qp6NQUrqWaqOir0iM (preview) “Left,Black,& Badass” -Interview w/LeftPOC https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-episode-5-left-black-badass-interview-wcharisse-burden-stelly “McCarthy Era Laid Groundwork for 60s Repression” -Interview w/Black Agenda Report https://www.blackagendareport.com/mccarthy-era-laid-groundwork-sixties-repression?fbclid=IwAR2gVBJU6sbF0PX9YORLMrB7qb90JtwRN-wIVzxvsxtoQxOT1VwygWT54Io Academia.edu: https://carleton.academia.edu/CharisseBurdenStellyPhD Instagram: @blackleftaf Black Internationalism,Black Radicalism,& Pan-Africanism LeftPOC Thread on Harry Haywood: https://twitter.com/LeftPOC/status/976898822961090561?s=20 Black Belt Thesis: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-belt-republic-1928-1934/ Hubert Harrison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Harrison Hubert Harrison - The Negro & the Nation https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Nation-Hubert-Harrison-ebook/dp/B00KVUW47G/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=hubert+harrison&qid=1577238386&sr=8-5 Cedric J. Robinson Black Communism:The Making of the Black Radical Tradition https://www.amazon.com/Black-Marxism-Making-Radical-Tradition/dp/0807848298/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LM3UHICDNYAO&keywords=cedric+robinson+black+marxism&qid=1577238772&sprefix=cedric+robinson%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1 On Racial Capitalism,Black Internationalism,& Cultures of Resistance https://www.amazon.com/Cedric-Robinson-Capitalism-Internationalism-Resistance/dp/0745340032/ref=sr_1_2?crid=LM3UHICDNYAO&keywords=cedric+robinson+black+marxism&qid=1577238811&sprefix=cedric+robinson%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-2 Hakim Adi Pan-Africanism & Communism:The Communist International,Africa & the Diaspora,1919-39 https://www.amazon.com/Pan-Africanism-Communism-Communist-International-1919-1939/dp/1592219160/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577240823&s=books&sr=1-1 Pan-Africanism:A History https://www.amazon.com/Pan-Africanism-History-Hakim-Adi/dp/1474254276/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577239435&s=books&sr=1-2 West Africans in Britain 1900-60:Nationalism,Pan-Africanism & Communism https://www.amazon.com/West-Africans-Britain-1900-1960-Pan-Africanism-ebook/dp/B07YPTK2MG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577240823&s=books&sr=1-3 Mikah Makalani - In the Cause of Freedom:Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-39 https://www.amazon.com/Cause-Freedom-Radical-Internationalism-1917-1939/dp/1469617528/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=minkah+makalani&qid=1577239253&sr=8-1 Erik McDuffie - Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism https://www.amazon.com/Sojourning-Freedom-American-Communism-Feminism/dp/0822350505/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/147-1591993-2094153?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822350505&pd_rd_r=7e115c5d-d261-45d9-bb65-777c83082139&pd_rd_w=nTcw6&pd_rd_wg=i8jfB&pf_rd_p=5873ae95-9063-4a23-9b7e-eafa738c2269&pf_rd_r=M57RMEXS9D4907VSKDMX&psc=1&refRID=M57RMEXS9D4907VSKDMX --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone

Cedric Robinson reflects on his early years at UC Santa Barbara and then deals with current research he is conducting on images of Blacks and other minorities in early Hollywood films. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 9301]

Cedric Robinson reflects on his early years at UC Santa Barbara and then deals with current research he is conducting on images of Blacks and other minorities in early Hollywood films. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 9301]

Cedric Robinson reflects on his early years at UC Santa Barbara and then deals with current research he is conducting on images of Blacks and other minorities in early Hollywood films. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 9301]

Cedric Robinson reflects on his early years at UC Santa Barbara and then deals with current research he is conducting on images of Blacks and other minorities in early Hollywood films. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 9301]