Contents

Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth P. Robinson Preface

Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin Introduction

PART ONE: RACIAL CAPITALISM

1.Steven Osuna Class Suicide: The Black Radical Tradition, Radical Scholarship, and the Neoliberal Turn

2.Nikhil Pal Singh On Race, Violence, and “So-Called Primitive Accumulation”

3.Damien M. Sojoyner Dissonance in Time: (Un)Making and (Re)Mapping of Blackness

4.Françoise Vergès Racial Capitalocene

5.Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Improvement and Preservation: Or, Usufruct and Use

PART TWO: THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION

6.Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton The World We Want: An Interview with Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson

7.George Lipsitz What Is This Black in the Black Radical Tradition?

8.Greg Burris Birth of a (Zionist) Nation: Black Radicalism and the Future of Palestine

9.Paul Ortiz Anti-Imperialism as a Way of Life: Emancipatory Internationalism and the Black Radical Tradition in the Americas

10.Darryl C. Thomas Cedric J. Robinson’s Meditation on Malcolm X’s Black Internationalism and the Future of the Black Radical Tradition

PART THREE: IMAGINING THE FUTURE

11.H. L. T. Quan “It’s Hard to Stop Rebels That Time Travel”: Democratic Living and the Radical Reimagining of Old Worlds

12.Avery F. Gordon The Bruise Blues

13.Shana L. Redmond and Kwame M. Phillips “The People Who Keep on Going”: A Listening Party, Vol. I

14.Ruth Wilson Gilmore Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence

15.Angela Davis An Interview on the Futures of Black Radicalism

PART FOUR: AFTERWORDS

16.Erica Edwards Cedric People

17.Robin D. G. Kelley Winston Whiteside and the Politics of the Possible

Notes

Acknowledgements

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