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Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell his story, Joshua Myers shows how Robinson’s work interrogated the foundations of western political thought, modern capitalism, and changing meanings of race. Tracing the course of Robinson’s journey from his early days as an agitator in the 1960s to his publication of such seminal works as Black Marxism, Myers frames Robinson’s mission as aiming to understand and practice opposition to “the terms of order.” In so doing, Robinson excavated the Black Radical tradition as a form of resistance that imagined that life on wholly different terms was possible. In the era of Black Lives Matter, that resistance is as necessary as ever, and Robinson’s contribution only gains in importance. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn more about it.

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Cedric J. Robinson finally has found a worthy biographer in Joshua Myers. This book will remind you why we must urgently read and re-read Robinson's work. A tour de force. Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Joshua Myers has written a necessary and much needed text to broaden and deepen our understanding of the life, thought, and practice of Cedric Robinson. Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University

Cedric J. Robinson finally has found a worthy biographer in Joshua Myers. This book will remind you why we must urgently read and re-read Robinson's work. A tour de force. Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Joshua Myers has written a necessary and much needed text to broaden and deepen our understanding of the life, thought, and practice of Cedric Robinson. Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University

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Joshua Myers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University.

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