How long does it take to read Black Marxism?
Cedric J. Robinson
Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson takes about 8 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 56 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1983. 487 pages, about 133,925 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of blacks on western continents, Robinson argues, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright.
Subjects: Communism, African American communists, Communism, africa, Pan-africanism, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political Ideologies
