Honoring the Life and Legacy of Cedric Robinson

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This session is dedicated to honoring the life and legacy of the late Cedric Robinson, a beloved scholar and mentor who authored several foundational texts including Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership and Black Movements in America. Dr. Robinson was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his MA and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He served as Chair of the Department of Black Studies as well as of Political Science and has also served as the Director of the Center for Black Studies at UCSB. His fields of teaching and research included modern political thought, radical social theory in the African Diaspora, comparative politics, and media and politics. Dr. Robinson authored numerous articles on US, African and Caribbean political thought; Western social theory, film and the press.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Paula C. Austin, California State University, Sacramento

Discussants

• Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University

• Stephen G. Hall, Alcorn State University

• Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin

• Stephen Ward, University of Michigan

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