Review: Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition, by Joshua Myers Available to Purchase

Joshua Myers’s Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition is a brilliant intellectual biography and meditation on the life and radical praxis of one of the greatest thinkers in the twentieth century. Myers invites us into a communal conversation, to think with Robinson, to slowly and carefully engage not only in the contours of his life but with the material conditions that shaped and informed his consciousness into a critical consciousness and defined the lines of inquiry, which animated his incredible body of work. Myers artfully gathers us into the communal practice of Black Study, in the ways of thinking and being that “reveal the particular sites of [Robinson’s] epistemic rupture” with the West (10). The foundations of Western thought, its attendant political, social, and economic systems—racial capitalism, the changing-same of race, its temporal and spatial arrangements—was “the premise of [Robinson’s] quite prescient view that, at its heart,...