Cedric Robinson

Cedric Robinson
Cedric Robinson
	Cedric Robinson in 2006
Born	November 5, 1940; Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	June 5, 2016 (aged 75)
Education	University of California, Berkeley; San Francisco State University; Stanford University

Cedric James Robinson (November 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016

media and politics

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Early life

Robinson was given the name Cedric James Hill when he was born on November 5, 1940, in Alameda County, California.^[4] in Oakland, California. He grew up in Oakland there. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in social anthropology in 1963, and Stanford University, where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in political theory in 1974.

He became a political

activist during his student days, when he protested against the university administration and American foreign and domestic policies along with other Black radical students.^[5] He was part of the Afro-American Association at Berkeley, a student group that discussed Black identity, African decolonization, historical and contemporary racism, and related topics.^[5]

Robinson's grandfather, Winston "Cap" Whiteside, influenced his radical political views. His grandfather was forced to flee after defending his wife Cecilia, Robinson's future grandmother, from an abusive boss in their hometowns of Mobile, Alabama and decided to go to California during the Great Migration in the 1920s. Robinson named C. L. R. James and Terence Hopkins as other thinkers who shaped his political outlook.^[6]

Career and public service

After leaving Berkeley, Robinson was drafted into the U.S. Army and also worked at the Alameda County Probation Department.

faculty

at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and became director of the Center for Black Studies Research.

In 1980, trying to correct what they saw as overall media bias as well as media laziness in accepting what the White House, the

public access television. Since 1980, UCSB students from the Third World and other UCSB faculty members have contributed to the program, produced it, or both.^[8]

The author of five books, Robinson also had articles appear in academic journals and anthologies on subjects ranging from political thought in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean to Western social theory, film, and the press.

Selected bibliography

Forgeries of Memory & Meaning: Blacks & the Regimes of Race in American Theater & Film Before World War II. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
An Anthropology of Marxism. 1st ed., London: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. 2nd ed., Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Black Movements in America. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. 1st ed., London: Zed Books, 1983. 2nd ed., Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 3rd ed., Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
, 2020.

Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership. 1st ed., Albany, NY:
State University of New York Press, 1980. 2nd ed., Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
, 2016.

References

^ "Office of the Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara"
^ "In Memoriam: Cedric Robinson (1940-2016)" Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, University of California Humanities Research Institute, June 7, 2016.
^ "'A Brilliant Political Theorist': David Leonard Reflects On Cedric Robinson", African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), June 8, 2016.
^ "The Birth of Cedric Hill". California Birth Index.
^ ^a ^b Kelley, Robin (June 2016). "Cedric J. Robinson: the Making of a Black Radical Intellectual". The Frantz Fanon Blog: Reading Frantz Fanon in Grahamstown, South Africa.
^ Kelley, Robin (2016-11-01). "Revisiting Black Marxism in the Wake of Black Lives Matter". The Frantz Fanon Blog: Reading Frantz Fanon in Grahamstown, South Africa.
^ Kelley, Robin D. G. (Winter 2017). "What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?". Boston Review. No. 1, Race, Capitalism, Justice. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
^ Robinson, Elizabeth (October 2005). "Twenty-five years of the Third World News Review". Race & Class. 47 (2, Cedric Robinson and the philosophy of Black resistance): 78.

External links

"Celebrating the Black radical tradition",
Institute of Race Relations
, September 28, 2005.
Gregory Meyerson, "Rethinking Black Marxism: Reflections on Cedric Robinson and Others", Cultural Logic, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2000.
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1999.
"Cedric Robinson: Short Biography & Selected Works", Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1999.
Cornel West, "The Making of the Black Radical Tradition", Monthly Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, September 1988.

[1] "Office of the Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara"

[2] "In Memoriam: Cedric Robinson (1940-2016)" Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, University of California Humanities Research Institute, June 7, 2016.

[3] "'A Brilliant Political Theorist': David Leonard Reflects On Cedric Robinson", African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), June 8, 2016.

[4] "The Birth of Cedric Hill". California Birth Index.

[:0-5] Kelley, Robin (June 2016). "Cedric J. Robinson: the Making of a Black Radical Intellectual". The Frantz Fanon Blog: Reading Frantz Fanon in Grahamstown, South Africa.

[6] Kelley, Robin (2016-11-01). "Revisiting Black Marxism in the Wake of Black Lives Matter". The Frantz Fanon Blog: Reading Frantz Fanon in Grahamstown, South Africa.

[7] Kelley, Robin D. G. (Winter 2017). "What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?". Boston Review. No. 1, Race, Capitalism, Justice. Retrieved 2022-10-25.

[8] Robinson, Elizabeth (October 2005). "Twenty-five years of the Third World News Review". Race & Class. 47 (2, Cedric Robinson and the philosophy of Black resistance): 78.

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