![]() ![]() ![]() Vinson Cunningham: I’ve been thinking about you and Cedric Robinson. Kelley wrote a rousing foreword for the new edition of “Black Marxism” and is working on a book called “Black Bodies Swinging: An American Postmortem,” about how the protests of 2020 are connected to a long history of resistance. (“I did not want that,” he told me, sounding good-naturedly harried by the distinction.) Last year, after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among others, at the hand of police officers, and the global protest uprising that followed, UNC Press decided to reissue “Black Marxism,” which - as Kelley had predicted two decades earlier - had become more relevant than ever. Since then, he has quite accidentally become the foremost authority on the late Robinson’s work and ideas. ![]() In the year 2000, Kelley led the charge to reissue “Black Marxism,” a great, globe-spanning work of political history by one of his mentors, Cedric Robinson - successfully rescuing the book, then out of print, from near-obscurity. ![]()
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