Guide to the Cedric J. Robinson collection Mss 387
Finding aid prepared by Rebecca Vasquez, November 2024.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
2024 November
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
Phone Number: (805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Title: Cedric J. Robinson papers
Creator:
Robinson, Cedric J.
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 387
Physical Description:
18 Linear Feet
(12 cartons, 2 flat boxes, and 3 stereo card boxes)
Manuscript materials
Physical Description:
4 Linear Feet
(1 U-Matic tape, 55 VHS tapes, 7 audio reels, 144 audiocassettes, 3 DVDS, 4 hard drives, 15 flash drives, and 100 floppy disks)
Audiovisual and born-digital materials
Date (inclusive): 1970-2010
Abstract: Papers of Cedric Robinson, former author, political scientist and theorist of Black radicalism, and Professor of Political
Science and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Language of Material:
English, Spanish; Castilian, French.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Elizabeth and Nadja Robinson, 2024.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
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and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
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copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged by topic into four series:
- Series 1: Personal and professional papers
- Series 2: Community activism
- Series 3: Teaching and course materials
- Series 4: Research and manuscript materials
Biographical / Historical
Dr. Cedric James Robinson (November 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016) was an American professor in the Department of Black Studies and
the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Born and raised in Oakland, California,
he attended UC Berkeley and received a B.A. in Social Anthropology in 1963. After a short assignment at the Officer Candidate
School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Robinson returned to work for the Alameda County Probation Department, where he would meet
his wife and collaborator, Elizabeth Peters. After marrying in 1967, they travelled nationally and abroad, during which time
he earned both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Theory from Stanford University.
During and immediately after his graduate studies, Robinson held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan, from
1971-1973, and the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY-Binghamton), from 1973-1978. In 1978, the Robinsons moved
to Santa Barbara, California as Cedric had been hired by UCSB as both a faculty member in the Department of Political Science
and as the Director of Center for Black Studies, a role in which he served until 1987. Cedric served as Chair of the Political
Science Department from 1987-1990, and in 1994 he also joined the Department of Black Studies where he served as Chair from
1994-1997.
While at UCSB, Professor Robinson and a student, Corey Dubin, started
Third World News Review (TWNR) on the UCSB campus and community radio station, KCSB, in 1980. The program offered a dialogue on social, political,
and cultural events around the world from sources other than the mainstream media. The show became available on public access
television several years later, and remained on the air for more than 30 years.
In addition to teaching and his journalism, Robinson was a prolific writer. He authored essays, articles, and manuscripts
on subjects ranging from radical social theory in the African diaspora, political thought in the United States, Africa, and
the Caribbean to Western social theory, film, and the press. On top of contributing regularly to academic journals and anthologies,
he also authored five books, including
The Terms of Order,
Black Movements in America,
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition,
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning, and
An Anthropology of Marxism.
Scope and Contents
This collection mostly contains materials pertaining to Cedric Robinson's career as an educator and activist while at SUNY-Binghamton
and UCSB, as well as materials related to his writing projects, including books, essays, and articles.
Materials may include reference materials and notes, course materials and lecture notes, publications and drafts, transcripts
and audiovisual recordings, correspondence, and other related ephemera.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Cedric J. Robinson papers, Mss 387. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Separated Materials
Materials related to the Robinson's involvement with
Third World News Review have been separated and donated to the New York University Division of Libraries. Recorded copies of TWNR, both as a radio
and television program, make up the majority of the materials, but transcripts, drafts, and reference materials are also included.
Information regarding
Third World News Review materials, and digital access, can be found at New York University's Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives:
Related Materials
Elizabeth P. Robinson papers. Mss 388. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
KCSB-FM collection. UArch 131. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Processing Information
Digital originals and copies of manuscript drafts, correspondence, and course materials are also included in the collection.
Processing of born-digital files is ongoing and must be reformatted for access. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
Series 1: Personal and professional materials
box 8, folder 25-26, flat-box 14, item V15864/8MM
Recognition and awards
1983-2009
Scope and Contents
Includes a recording of Cedric's Berkeley High Hall of Fame ceremony.
box 8, folder 27
CA State Teaching Credential
1970
box 8, folder 28
Bibliographies and CVs
1979-2002
Series 2: Community activism
Scope and Contents
This series includes materials related to Cedric Robinson's community activism. Robinson, along with his wife Elizabeth, was
involved in advocacy for South African divestment, grassroots journalism and broadcasting, Affirmative Action, and local Black
history. Materials may include drafts and notes, newsletters and other publications, correspondence, and reference materials.
Robinson kept an extensive amount of excerpts from published resources, including books, journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Materials with notations and materials not widely available have been retained here. Materials without unique notes and materials
that are more easily accesible have been physically separated from the collection, but a bibliography of titles has been produced
and included with the corresponding manuscript materials.
box 8, folder 13-15
ACLU - SB Chapter
2007-2014
box 8, folder 16
Campaign for International Diplomacy
2012-2013
box 8, folder 17
Santa Barbara Black Historical Calendar
1995-1996
Related Materials
Additional materials that went into the planning and research of the calendar can be found in:
box 8, folder 18
Liaison Citizen Summer Youth Employment Program evaluation
1983
Community television and COX Cable
1991-1996
box 8, folder 21-23
KCTV
1991-1996
Scope and Contents
Materials related to participation in the City of Santa Barbara's Public Access Advisory Committee (PAAC), mostly in regards
to public access franchise negotiations. Also included are KCTV manager meeting minutes and yearly reports, budgets, publicity,
and general reference materials.
Nicaragua trips
Scope and Contents
Materials related to two trips that Cedric took to Nicaragua - one as a part of a Solidarity Coalition and the other as an
invited guest by the government.
box 8, folder 24, item A45749/CS, item A45748/CS
CEPAD Solidarity delegation
1987-1989
Scope and Contents
Comite Evangelico Pro Ayuda al Dearrollo (CEPAD) - Nicaraguan papers to Paul Oquist. Also includes audio recordings of Paul
Oquist and Thomas Kelly.
item A45738/CS, item A45739/CS, item A45740/CS, item A45741/CS, item A45742/CS, item A45743/CS
First World Alliance community discussion recordings
1999 March 31-2000 June 27
Scope and Contents
Six audiorecordings of "Bro. Berry, Bro. Innui, and Bro. Turner" leading community discussions on "Achieving African Liberation,"
"bring[ing] forth the African Race," and a session titled "Voice of the First World.
item A45556/R7, item A45559/R7, item A45557/R7, item A45558/R7
Of Black America audio recordings
1968 July-August
Scope and Contents
Of Black America was a seven-part documentary series presented by CBS News in the summer of 1968 that explored the history and current status
of the African-American community.
The Robinsons kept four recordings, one of each from:
- "Black History: Lost, Stolen, Strayed"
- "The Black Soldier"
- "The Heritage of Slavery"
- "In Search of a Past"
item V15869/VHS
Santa Barbara Anti War Rally
2002 September 21
Public lectures
Scope and Contents
Audiovisual and digital recordings of various lectures that Cedric gave throughout the community. Formats include audiocassettes,
VHS tapes, and CDs.
Processing Information
Processing of born-digital files is ongoing and must be reformatted for access. Information will be updated periodically.
item A45818/CS
"Peace is Impossible" - Global Peace & Security program
item A45759/CS
History of Blacks in Britain
1981 September 26
item A45819/CS
Amnesty International panel
1994
Scope and Contents
Cedric Robinson on immigration history and Prop 187.
item V15853/VHS
Robinson on David Duke, Donahue, and CNN Gulf Injuries
item V15896/VHS
Mixed clips
- 1. Silverado
- 2. Gray Panthers
- 3. Third World
- 4. Montreal Jazz Festival
- 5. South Africa: CJ Robinson
Series 3: Teaching and course materials
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials produced and compiled by Cedric Robinson to teach Political Science, Classical Theory, Sociology,
and Black Studies courses. Materials may include syllabi and assignment instructions, lecture notes and transparencies, and
supporting reference materials.
Robinson kept an extensive amount of excerpts from published resources, including books, journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Materials with notations and materials not widely available have been retained here. Materials without unique notes and materials
that are more easily accesible have been physically separated from the collection, but a bibliography of titles has been produced
and included with the corresponding course materials.
Also included are materials related to Cedric's work within university departments and with various campus organizations.
Materials may include administrative documents, planning and promotional materials, lecture recordings, and correspondence.
Processing Information
Processing of born-digital files is ongoing and must be reformatted for access. Information will be updated periodically.
University of Michigan
1971-1973
box 1, folder 1
Political Science 450 - Problems of Political Development and Black Radical Thought
1972-1973
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and supporting documents related to the proposal of a course that featured multiple lecturers. Lecturers
included Ernest Mkalimoto, C. L. R. James, Harold Cruse, James and Grace Boggs, Sylvia Wynter, Archibald "Archie" Singham,
and Nellie Verner.
box 1, folder 2
Pol Sci 495 - African Tradtional Political Philosophy
1971
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, lecture notes, and course books information.
box 1, folder 3
Pol Sci 495 - The Concept of Charisma and the African Diaspora
1972
Scope and Contents
Syllabi and lecture notes. Also included is a draft proposal for a course on "the phenomenon of charisma" and "Malcolm X as
a charasmatic leader."
box 1, folder 4
Pol Sci 501 and 603 - Anarchism
1972
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, course handouts, and lecture notes for Political Science 501: Anarchism, Time and History and Political Science 603:
Anarchism and Violence.
box 7, folder 10
Theresa Ware
1973
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Theresa Ware, graduate student who Cedric was an advisor for, regarding feedback on her research proposal.
Campus events and programs
box 3, folder 33
Program for Educational and Social Change (PESC)
1972
Scope and Contents
"Community course" lecture notes and PESC budget information
box 3, folder 32
Sylvia Wynter - Proposed lectures
1972
Scope and Contents
Drafts of Wynter's CV and six lecture series proposal, titled "The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean."
box 3, folder 31
Black Film Society, Ann Arbor
1971-1972
item V15870/VHS
C.L.R. James, Ann Arbor, Michigan lectures
Scope and Contents
The Marxist Approach and History; [Dialectician]; The Coming Revolution; and The 3rd World Rev[volution Vanguard].
SUNY-Binghamton
1973-1978
box 1, folder 5
Proposed course: Political Science 160X - Moral and Analytical Problems of Revolution
1974
box 1, folder 9
African American Studies 100X/101 - Concept of Race in Western Thought
1976
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes, course materials, and reference materials.
box 1, folder 10
AFAM/AS 133X - The Political Construction of Black Writers in Post-War America
1977
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, course reference materials, and correspondence and bio information regarding guest lecturers.
box 1, folder 11
AFAM 163X - Reality and Fantasy, Comparative Sociology
1978
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and materials regarding a new course, including reference materials.
box 1, folder 12
AFAM 170X - Marx, Marxism, Class and the Ideologies of Race in 20th Century England and 20th Century America
box 1, folder 13
AFAM/Pol Sci 220 - Revolutionary Movements and Social Programs
1974-1977
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, reading list, and lecture notes.
box 1, folder 14-15
AFAM 270/Pol Sci 246 - American Radicalism and the "Negro Problem"
1975-1978
Scope and Contents
Syllabi and lecture notes, some first drafts with handwritten edits and notes. Also included are handouts prepared for students,
some summarized and typed, and others photocopied excerpts and clippings.
box 1, folder 16
AFAM 275X/Pol Sci 247 - Black Radical and Liberal Social Theorists
box 1, folder 17
Pol Sci 48 - Contemporary African Politics
box 1, folder 18
Pol Sci 101 lecture notes
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes and weekly syllabi.
box 1, folder 19
Pol Sci 115 - Ideologies and Modern Politics
1975
box 1, folder 20
Pol Sci 124 - Politics and Africa
1974
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, course materials and handouts, and lecture notes.
box 1, folder 21
Pol Sci 181a - The Politics of Personal Experience
1973
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, lecture notes, and course reference materials.
box 1, folder 22
Pol Sci 233 - Social Change and Black Militancy
1973
box 1, folder 23
Pol Sci/AFAM 243 - The Political and Social Doctrines of Marx
1976
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, reading and card catalog lists, lecture notes, and course reference materials.
box 1, folder 24
Pol Sci 407 suggested reading list
box 1, folder 6
Sociology 111A lecture notes
1978
Scope and Contents
Also includes midterm key and final instructions.
box 1, folder 7
Soc/AFAM 225 - Revolutionary Theory and Ideology in the Third World
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, course reference materials, and two copies of an essay titled "The Roots of Nationalist Marxism" by Cedric.
box 1, folder 8
Soc 307 - Historical Introduction to Sociological Analysis
1977
Scope and Contents
Sylabus, book list, lecture notes, and reference materials.
box 1, folder 25
Pol Sci Student Opinion Surveys
1974-1978
Campus events and programs
box 3, folder 37
Backlash, Black Student Union publication
box 3, folder 35
Robert S. Starobin histories and interviews
1974-1975
Scope and Contents
Typewritten notes and transcribed interviews on Robert S. Starobin's life. Interviewees include: Herman Starobin, Sukey Howard,
and David Makofsky. Possibly materials compiled by Linda Rennie Forcey in preparation of her dissertation, "Personality in
Politics: The Commitment of a Suicide."
box 3, folder 34
Dominic Sankey visiting lecturer
1974
box 3, folder 36
Sidney Wilhelm paper presentation
1976
box 8, folder 1
Fernand Braudel Center papers
1976-1977
item A45791/CS
C.L.R. James - "Where We Come From"
1973
item A45806/CS
W. Rodney, C.L.R. James, [Marika] on Roots of Pan-Africanism - Sunday
1974 April 13
item A45758/CS
C.L.R. James - Thursday
1975 February 13
item A45815/CS
[Moishe] Postone - "The Dialectics of Labor & Time in Marx: Toward a Reconsideration of Socialist Revolution and Class [Consciousness]"
1975 March 17
Scope and Contents
Moishe Postone was a student at University of Frankfurt at the time of this lecture.
item A45781/CS
Harry Haywood, Pt 1
Thursday, April 1, 1976
item A45780/CS
Harry Haywood, Lincoln Brigade - Friday
1976 April 2
item V15858/UM
Morning Show - "Watergate"
item A45796/CS
Victor [Perlo], Blacks & Communist [Party]
1981 April 12
item A45554/R7
History Speaker: Harold Cruse
item A45539/CS
C.L.R. James - "How I Have Developed"
box 3, folder 38
Professional papers
1975-1978
box 7, folder 11
Arthur Liebman
1976
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Art Liebman, Associate Professor of Sociology, regarding feedback on a research proposal.
Course materials
1970-2013
box 1, folder 26
Various syllabi and course materials
1983-2000
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, assignment and exam materials, and course reference materials for various Political Science and Black Studies courses
taught UCSB. Courses include: versions of Pol Sci 1 - Introduction to Political Thought; Pol Sci 110 - Modern Political Concepts;
Pol Sci 189 - Recent and Contemporary Political Theory; Pol Sci 240 - Classical Political Thinkers; Pol Sci 242 - Contemporary
Political Theory; and Black Studies 3 - Introduction to African Studies.
box 1, folder 27
Sociology 381X - Black Marxism
1970-1993
Scope and Contents
Syllabus; lecture notes, course reference materials - including "Toward Ideological Clarity" by Imamu Amiri Baraka - and a
letter and syllabus re: Afro-American Civilzations C3002Y taught by Immanuel Wallerstein. Also included is a syllabus for
Black Studies 104: Black Marxism, taught at UCSB.
box 1, folder 28-29
Black Studies 1 - Introduction to Afro-American Studies
1998-2009
Scope and Contents
Exam instructions, handouts, reference materials, and administrative documents.
box 1, folder 30-40
BLST 5 - Blacks in Western Civilization
1998-2009
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, overhead slide transparencies, exam instructions and handouts, and course reference materials.
Content Warning
Some reference materials contain graphic images of lynchings and deceased individuals.
item A45746/CS
Lecture 11/24 - Fall 1998
box 1, folder 41
BLST 104 - Black Marxism
1993
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, lecture notes, and course reference materials.
box 1, folder 42-57, box 2, folder 1-4
BLST 170 - Blacks in the American Cinema: Late 19th Century to World War II
1993-2013
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, lecture notes and recorded lectures, exam instructions, overhead slide transparencies, reference materials, communication
with students, and administrative documents. Of note is an Archive Development Proposal that Cedric drafted, envisioned as
a support for his Black Studies students.
Some materials may have also been used to support Cedric's research for his Forgeries of Memory and Meaning manuscript. Original
box and folder labels have been maintained whenever possible, so some overlap may be present.
item A45757/CS
Lecture - B.S. Film course
1997 February
item V15890/VHS
Film History - Silent Film - Germany
box 2, folder 1-31
BLST 172 - Contemporary Black Cinema
1993-2013
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, lecture notes, exam instructions, overhead slide transparencies, reference materials, communication with students,
and administrative documents. Of note is an Archive Development Proposal that Cedric drafted, envisioned as a support for
his Black Studies students.
Some materials may have also been used to support Cedric's research for his Forgeries of Memory and Meaning manuscript. Original
box and folder labels have been maintained, so some overlap may be present.
box 2, folder 32-33
BLST 193CJ - The Black Detective in Film and Literature
2007-2008
Scope and Contents
Syllabi and course reference materials.
box 2, folder 34
BLST 205 - Black Epistemologies
2015
box 2, folder 35-43
Political Science 112 - Marxism
1979-1994
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, exam instructions, lecture notes, and course readers for Fall '82, Fall '85, and Spring '94.
Some materials may have also been used to support Cedric's research for his Anthropology of Marxism manuscript. Original folder
labels have been maintained when possible, so some overlap may be present.
item A45845/CS
Lecture 10 - Monday
1985 February 4
item A45846/CS
Saturday
1985 February 16
item A45847/CS
Lecture 2 - Tuesday
1985 October 1
item A45848/CS
Lecture 3 - Thursday
1985 October 3
item A45849/CS
Lecture 4 - Tuesday
1985 October 8
item A45856/CS
Lecture 15 - Thursday
1985 November 14
item A45537/CS
Lecture 16 - Tuesday
1985 November 19
item A45858/CS
Lecture 17 - Thursday
1985 November 21
item A45859/CS
Last lecture - Friday
1985 November 29
item A45860/CS
Paris Commune - Tuesday
1986 July 15
item A45861/CS
Lecture 1 - Tuesday
1988 January 5
item A45538/CS
Lecture 2 - Thursday
1988 January 7
item A45862/CS
Lecture 3 - Tuesday
1988 January 12
item A45863/CS
Lecture 4 - Thursday
1988 January 14
item A45864/CS
Lecture 11 - Friday
1988 February 19
item A45865/CS
Lecture 14 - Thursday
1988 February 18
item A45866/CS
Lecture 15 - Tuesday
1988 February 23
item A45867/CS
Lecture 17 - Sunday
1988 February 28
item A45868/CS
Critique of Hegel - Wednesday
1989 October 11
box 2, folder 44
Pol Sci 113 lecture notes
box 2, folder 45-51, box 3, folder 1-3
Pol Sci 171 - Politics and Mass Communications
1984-1994
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, lecture notes, recorded lectures, and reference materials.
Some materials may have also been used to support Cedric's research for his Anthropology of Marxism manuscript. Original box
and folder labels have been maintained when possible, so some overlap may be present.
item A45841/CS
Lectures 3 and 4 - Tuesday and Thursday
1986 January 14-16
item A45842/CS
Lecture 5 - Tuesday
1986 January 21
item A45843/CS
Lecture 6 - Tuesday
1986 January 28
item A45844/CS
Thursday
1986 February 20
box 3, folder 4-5
Pol Sci 187 - Classical Political Theory
2003-2004
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, exam instructions, student correspondence, reference materials, and departmental materials.
Pol Sci 189 recorded lectures
1988
item A45829/CS
Lecture 8 - Thursday
1988 April 21
item A45830/CS
Lecture 9 - Tuesday
1988 April 26
box 3, folder 6
Pol Sci 196 - Classical Political Theory
1979-1999
box 3, folder 7-13
Pol Sci 240 - Classical Political Theory
1987-2007
Scope and Contents
Syllabi, an overhead projector sheet, a reading list, a course reader for Winter '87, and a set of essays presented at the
1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Scence Association related to "Greeks and Slavery."
box 3, folder 14
Pol Sci 241 - Modern Political Thinkers
1985
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, course reader, and recorded lectures.
box 3, folder 15
Pol Sci 242 course reader and recorded lecture
1983
Scope and Contents
Spring 1983 course reader
box 3, folder 16
Pol Sci 394 lecture notes
Scope and Contents
Class may have been titled "Black Movements Documented."
box 3, folder 17-18
Pol Sci 594RT - Special Topics seminar
2006-2008
Scope and Contents
Syllabus, reference materials, and administrative memos. Course topics include: Black Radical Thought in the 20th Century,
and Critical Race Theory and Popular Culture.
box 3, folder 19-24
Black Studies ESCI Surveys
1993-2002
box 3, folder 25-30
Political Science ESCI Surveys
1991-2004
Student advising
1993-2014
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to Cedric's graduate students and their research. Materials may include project proposals, thesis
and dissertation drafts, and networking and general correspondence.
box 7, folder 2-5, item V15863/8MM, item V15894/VHS
Patricia Masilo
1993-1996
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and newspaper articles regarding Patricia Masilo's death and memorial service. Includes photographs of Masilo
and Robinson at a graduation ceremony, and posthumously edited dissertation chapters that Cedric was organizing for submission.
Also included are five floppy disks with drafts of Masilo's dissertation.
box 7, folder 6
Tiffany Willoughby Herard
1997-1999
box 7, folder 7
H. L. T. Quan
1993-1994
Scope and Contents
Materials from H.L.T. Quan's doctoral and post-doctoral research and work.
box 7, folder 8
Ilya Ahmadizadeh
1994-1996
box 7, folder 9
S. Jovian Radheshwar
2009-2010
box 7, folder 12
Graduate advising
1996-2014
item A45542/CS
[Dupoy]; Ademola Critique
1980 April 8
Scope and Contents
Questions: William Strickland, George Beckford, Ray Haynes
Departmental and administrative materials
1969-2008
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to departmental and campus administration. Including staff appointments and recommendations, departmental
meetings and board positions, and other campus-wide groups.
Also included are materials related to Cedric's hiring, his early directorship of the Center for Black Studies, and his promotions
and merit increases.
box 3, folder 39
Professional papers
1981-2008
box 7, Folder 14
Douglas Daniels
1993-1994
box 7, folder 18
Academic Planning Coordinating Committee
1999
box 7, folder 20
Recruitment and Retention of African American Students at UCSB
1999
box 7, folder 21
UCSB Black Studies - An Evolutionary Study, 1969-1978
box 7, folder 22-26, box 12
Center for Black Studies Research (CBSR)
1978-1996
Scope and Contents
At the time of his hiring, the Center for Black Studies Research was called the Center for Black Studies.
A book written by Clyde Woods, "Black California Dreamin': The Crises of California's African-American Communities," was posthumously
edited and published by staff of CSBR and is also included in the collection.
box 7, folder 27
Political Science Department external review
1985
box 7, folder 28
EAP Ghana program review
1995-1996
box 7, folder 29
Committee for Education Policy and Academic Planning (CEPAP) Liaison
1993-1994
box 7, folder 30-32
Prop 209 and Affirmative Action
1987-1999
box 7, folder 35
UCI visit transcript
2012
box 7, folder 38
Merit increase - Professor advancement
1981-2002
Campus events and programs
box 7, folder 19
North Hall dedication
2001
box 7, folder 36
Gloria Rolando lecture and screening
1994
item A45543/CS
Martha Honey at Campbell Hall
1989 March 3
item A45544/CS
Dr. Letnev (University of Moscow); Otis P. Madison (Center for Black Studies)
Speaking for the Subject
1989 May 27-28
Scope and Contents
Organized by Elliot Butler Evans and Manthia Diawara
item A45755/CS
Bridge Tape 1 - Intro - M. Diawara, E. Butler-Evans; Jacqueline Bobo
1989 May 26
item A45763/CS
Paul Gilroy - Masters, Slaves, and Problem of Modernity
1989 May 27
item A45774/CS
Herman Gray [illegible], Black Subjectivity and Television
1989 May 27
item A45565/CS
Cedric Robinson and panel, Tape 4
1989 May 27
item A45773/CS
Teshome Gabriel & Paul Gilroy, Tape 5
1989 May 27
item A45772/CS
Gilroy panel, Mercer, Joyce, Tape 6
1989 May 27
item A45771/CS
Joyce A. Joyce, Tape 7
1989 May 27
item A45753/CS
Roundtable Bridge Tape 1A
1989 May 28
item A45770/CS
J. Bobo; Clyde Taylor, Tape 8
1989 May 28
item A45769/CS
Sylvia Wynter, Tape 9
1989 May 28
item A45768/CS
Round Table, Tape 10
1989 May 28
item A45767/CS
Round Table, Tape 11
1989 May 28
item A45779/CS
Sylvia Wynter "After Post Modernism, After Marxism: Toward a New World System"
1989 May 28
item A45812/CS
Dr. Walter Rodney - Center for Black Studies
item A45816/CS
Bernard Magubane "[South] Africa & Central America Crisis & Challenge"
1986 February 24
item A45553/CS
Herbert Aptheker - The Confrontation between W.E.B. DuBois & Booker T. Washington
Scope and Contents
Side two is labeled "3rd World"
item A45804/CS
Interview with Raya Dunayevskaya
1983 May 25
Scope and Contents
Conducted for the Center for Black Studies Research.
item V18354/8MM
Angela Davis at [department]
1997 May
item V15868/VHS, item V15882/VHS
Seven Lightnings Over California - Don Daniel, A Palero in Los Angeles
Scope and Contents
Erwan Dianteill and Gerard Pigeon, Black Studies UC Santa Barbara
item V15897/VHS, flat-box 14
Student and Faculty hunger strike
1989 March 3
Scope and Contents
Related to a student led protest in support of the creation of a campus Multi-Cultural Center, an undergraduate Ethnic Studies
general education requirement, and both an Asian American Studies and Native American Studies department. Although Cedric
Robinson and Gerard Pigeon were the only two faculty members to join the students in their hunger strike, several other faculty
members were vocal in their solidarity with the student groups.
Several newspaper clippings regarding the progression of the protest are also included in the collection.
item V15904/VHS
Clinton Adlum - Cuban Attache
1990 December 17
item A45799/CS, item A45801/CS, item A45807/CS
Stuart Hall at UCSB
1989 May 29
Scope and Contents
Stuart Hall lectures "Remaining Differences: Black Identities and White Theorists," and D.I.R.P Kum-Kum Bhavnani [introduction].
Date recorded possibly May 26 of 1987 or 1989.
item V15879/VHS
The Pinochet Case
Scope and Contents
UCSB Arts and Lectures, Winter Cinema series 2003
item V15855/VHS
Why Do They Hate Us So Much? And What Can Be Done?
Scope and Contents
Panel discussion with Richard Flacks, Nancy Gallagher, Cedric Robinson, and Elizabeth Robinson.
item V15899/VHS, item V15905/VHS
Cuba trip
Scope and Contents
Recordings of Cedric's travels to Cuba during a university organized research trip, planned in an effort to establish an education
abroad program with the University of Havana. Originals were recorded on betacam, recordings are available as VHS tapes.
UK sabbatical
Scope and Contents
Includes recordings of interviews and conferences taken by Cedric and Elizabeth during their time working and living in London
throughout the 1981-1982 academic year. During this time, they both collobarated with the Institute for Race Relations (IRR),
which they would continue to work with throughout their lives.
item A45762/CS
Sivanandan; Lorimer
1980 July 14
item A45776/CS
Brighton conference with the Institute of Race Relations
1980 July 15
Scope and Contents
Speakers: Martin Barker and [Hussein Bulhan]
item A45744/CS
St. Clair Drake - Stanford University
1981 July 24
International Conference on the History of Blacks in Britain
1981 September 28-30
Scope and Contents
Held at the University of London Institute of Education over September 28-30th.
item A45793/CS
Lorimer/Spiers
1981 September 28
item A45795/CS
Paul Edwards; Basil Wilson; Meshesha Biru; Gene Eilis
1981 September 28
item A45808/CS
Bobby Hill; Peter Freyer and Kodjoe
1981 September 29-30
item A45784/CS
BBC Radio 4 - Brixton Riots
1981 November 24
item A45788/CS
Peter Blackman I
1981 November 25
item A45761/CS
Radwinter: Brother Herman, [Maggs Beaven], Elizabeth & Cedric Robinson
1982 April 11
item A45785/CS
BBC Radio 4's
The Burt Scandal
1982 April 29
Scope and Contents
Recording of a radio program covering investigations into Sir Cyril Burt's studies on intelligence inheritability.
item A45798/CS
ICA Theatre, London: C.L.R. James/Lord Fenner Brockway
1982 April 20
item A45778/CS
London: Peter Blackman
1982 May 7
item A45777/CS, item A45782/CS
item A45789/CS, item A45790/CS
Granville Hall: Peter Blackman
1982 May 23
Scope and Contents
Two audiocassette tapes - I/II and III/IV
item A45787/CS
Peter Blackman reading diary
item A45783/CS
London: Kassahun Checole at IRR
Series 4: Research and manuscript materials
Scope and Contents
This series includes materials related to Cedric Robinson's publications, including books, essays, presentation papers, articles,
chapters, and reviews. Materials may include drafts and notes, final editions and reprints, conference materials, correspondence
with editors and publishers, reviews, publishing contracts, administrative materials, and other published reference materials.
Robinson kept an extensive amount of excerpts from published resources, including books, journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Materials with notations and materials not widely available have been retained here. Materials without unique notes and materials
that are more easily accesible have been physically separated from the collection, but a bibliography of titles has been produced
and included with the corresponding manuscript materials.
Published essays and articles
1969-2004
box 4, folder 1
Coming to Terms: The Third World and the dialectic of imperialism
1980-1981
box 4, Folder 2
Amilcar Cabral and the Dialectic of Portuguese Colonialism
1981-1982
box 4, folder 3
Class Antagonisms and Black Migration: A Review Article
1982
box 4, folder 4
DuBois as a Critical Marxist
1982
box 4, folder 5
C.L.R. James and the Black Radical Tradition
1982-1983
box 4, folder 6
American Blacks and the American Left: A Bibliographic Essay
1983
box 4, folder 7
Fascism and the Intersections of Capitalism, Racialism, and Historical Consciousness
1983
box 4, folder 8
Indiana Jones, the Third World and American Foreign Policy
1984
box 4, folder 9
The African Diaspora and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis
1985
box 4, folder 11
Fanon and the West: Imperialism in the Native Imagination
1987
box 4, folder 12
Captialism, Slavery and Bourgeois Historiography
1986-1987
box 4, folder 13, item A45766/CS
White Signs in Black Times: The Politics of Representation in Dominant Texts
1989
Scope and Contents
Also includes a recorded presentation of the paper, on May 27, 1985.
box 4, folder 14
Critique of Jordan's "Time, Sex, Money"
1990
box 4, folder 15
The Subjugation of Race in Radical Discourse
1990
box 4, folder 16
Africa: Compared to What?
1990
box 4, folder 17
DuBois and Black Sovereignty: The Case of Liberia
1990-1994
box 4, folder 18
Oliver Cromwell Cox and the Historiography of the West
1990
box 4, folder 19
The Business of News
1991
box 4, folder 20
C.L.R. James and the World System
1992-2000
box 4, folder 21
The Value of Multiculturism
1992
box 4, folder 23
Black Women in American Films
1993
box 4, folder 24
Ota Benga's Flight Through Geronimo's Eyes: Tales of Science and Multiculturalism
1994
Scope and Contents
Essay is included as a chapter in David Theo Goldberg's
Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader.
box 4, folder 25
Slavery and the Platonic Origins of Anti-Democracy
1994-1995
box 4, folder 26
David Walker and the Precept of Black Studies
1996-1998
box 4, folder 27
Micheaux Lynches the Mammy
1998
box 4, folder 29
The Implications of Gramsci's Theory of Education
box 4, folder 30, item V15862/VHS
The Comedy of Terror
2002-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes a recording of a lecture based on "The Comedy of Terror."
box 4, folder 31
An Inventory of Contemporary Black Politics
box 4, folder 32
Review of "The People's Cause" by Basil Davidson
box 4, folder 33
Writing Dis-location: Black Writers and Post-Colonial Britian
box 4, folder 34
The Birth, Life, and Machinery of Death of King Kong
box 4, folder 35
The Roots of Nationalist Marxism
box 4, folder 36
Saying Goodbye to Mantan Moreland
box 4, folder 37
The Appropriation of Fanon
1993
box 4, folder 38
Fanon and Contemporary Revolutionary Consciousness: Fashioning the Colonial Struggle
1993
box 4, folder 39
Race, Capitalism, and the Anti-Democracy
1993
box 4, folder 40
Manichaeism and Multiculturalism
1992-1994
box 4, folder 41
Blaxploitation and the Misrepresentation of Liberation
1998
box 4, folder 42
Reivew of "Black Power in the Belly of the Beast" by Judson Jefferies
box 4, folder 43
The Real World of Political Correctness
1993
box 4, folder 44
Mass Media and the American Presidency
1993
box 4, folder 45
Review of "Race and Politics in South Africa" by I. Robertson and P. Whitten
1979
box 4, folder 46
The Signification of Fascism
box 4, folder 47
Dirty Pictures on the Fourth of July
1986
box 4, folder 48
Cultural Diversity: Assimilation or Resistance
1998
box 4, folder 49
Museums of Knowledge and Streams of Consciousness
1999
box 4, folder 50
Angola and American Society
1976
box 4, folder 52
"Going 'Cold Turkey' on Higher Standards"
box 4, folder 53
The Development of Concepts as Part of the Development of the Modern World-System
1978
Scope and Contents
Part Two of the report written by Immanuel Wallerstein.
box 4, folder 54
The Utopian Break: South Africa as Other
1994
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from Ntongela Masilela regarding inclusion of the essay in a book or anthology.
box 4, folder 55
The Terms of Black History
box 4, folder 56
'Introduction' to Richard Wright's White Man, Listen!
1994-1995
Scope and Contents
Written upon request of Richard Wright's family.
box 4, folder 57
"Now I have been given my eyes back:" Truth and Racial Order in South Africa
1999
box 4, folder 58
Ralph Bunche and "An American Dilemma"
2004
box 4, folder 59
In Search of a Pan-African Commonwealth
1996
box 4, folder 60
Black Intellectuals at the British Core: 1920s-1940s
1981
box 4, folder 61
Capitalism, Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition
1999
box 4, folder 62
Review of "Long Gone..." by Daryl C. Dance
box 4, folder 63
The American Press and the Repairing of the Philippines
1986
box 4, folder 64
Facism and the Response of Black Radical Theorists
1984
box 4, folder 65
The Violation of Imagery
1977
box 4, folder 66
The Inventions of the Negro
2001
Scope and Contents
This essay would become a chapter in
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning.
box 4, folder 67
In the Year 1915: D. W. Griffith and the Whitening of America
1997
Scope and Contents
This essay would become a chapter in
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning.
box 5, folder 1
Domination and Imitation: Xala and the Emergence of the Black Bourgeoisie
1980
Scope and Contents
Includes Cedric's correspondence with his graduate advisors.
box 5, folder 2
The Emergent Marxism of Richard Wright's Ideology
1978
box 5, folder 3
Richard Wright: Marxism and the Petite-Bourgeoisie
1980
box 5, folder 4
The Emergence and Limitations of European Radicalism
1979
box 5, folder 5
Historical Consciousness and the Development of Revolutionary Ideology
1975-1979
Scope and Contents
Includes an earlier version of the paper as presented at the Conference on The Rhetoric of Ethnic Nationalism at SUNY-Binghamton,
titled "Time, History and Westernization."
box 5, folder 6
Social Conditions Among the Black Peoples of the Americas
1974-1975
box 5, folder 7
Malcolm Little as a Charismatic Leader
1969-1972
box 5, folder 8
Historical Connections: A Reivew; Review of "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney
1975-1976
box 5, folder 9
Notes Toward a "Native" Theory of History
1980
Scope and Contents
Includes a response by George Shepperson, titled "Ourselves as Others."
box 5, folder 10
A Critique of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction"
1977
box 5, folder 11
Forrest Gump and the Film of Incompetence
box 5, folder 12
The American Administrative and the American Poor
box 5, folder 13
Burlesque and the Stereotypical Immigrants
box 5, folder 14
Here Comes De Judge(ment)
box 5, folder 15
The Black Middle Class' Bad Ass Song
1974
box 5, folder 16
The First Attack is the Attack on Culture
1975
box 5, folder 17
Marxist Theory and the Black Savage: DuBois' Critique in "Black Reconstruction"
1975-1977
box 5, folder 18
Liberal Fantasies and the Politics of American Movies, with Tom Denyer
1976
box 5, folder 19
Economic Theory and Black Separatist Movements
1976
box 5, folder 20
Richard Wright and the Political Function of Black Literature
1977
box 5, folder 21
A Case of Mistaken Identity
1979
box 5, folder 22
The African in Shakespearean Drama, and an annotated bibliography on Othello
box 5, folder 23
Food Riots and Fool Riots: The Press and the Discovery of the Poor
box 5, folder 24
The Black Response to Fascism
box 5, folder 25
Biographies of Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
box 5, folder 26
Black Reactions to Fascism in America During the 1930s
1983
box 5, folder 27
La Negra Angustias: the Mulatta as a Site of Contest in Mexican and American Cinema
2001
box 5, folder 28
The Black Detective and the American Memory
box 5, folder 29
A Modest Assessment, review of Polyani's "Personal Knowledge"
1968
box 5, folder 30
The African Diaspora and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis
1985
Scope and Contents
Also includes several short pieces on Black responses to fascism.
box 5, folder 31
New Research into the Black Bureaucrat and Public Policy
1979
box 5, folder 32
The Interpretation of the Republic
box 5, folder 33
Reading Jameson's "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture"
box 5, folder 34
Citizen Canaan: The Black Quest for Civil Equality, or Black Liberation Movements in America
1993-1994
box 5, folder 35
Short pieces on South Africa, sanctions, and divestment
1986-1979
box 5, folder 36
Africa: In Hock to History and the Banks
box 5, folder 37, flat-box 14
Newspaper editorials and interviews
1981-1999
box 5, folder 38, flat-box 14
Various mentions in print media
box 5, folder 39
Other untitled or unfinished drafts and writings
Scope and Contents
Includes unfinished drafts and single-page excerpts from unknown writings.
Published manuscripts
1986-2007
box 5, folder 40
The Terms of Order
2015
Scope and Contents
Originally published in 1980 by SUNY-Binghamton, the materials here relate to the reissue that includes ann introduction by
Erica Edwards.
box 5, folder 41-43, box 6, folder 1-2
Black Movements in America
1996-1997
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to the research, writing, and publication of
Black Movements in America. Materials may include notes, drafts, reference materials, correspondence, contracts, and reviews.
box 6, folder 3-6
Black Marxism and the Making of the Black Radical Tradition
1977-1999
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to the research, writing, and publication of
Black Marxism and the Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Materials may include notes, drafts, reference materials, correspondence, contracts, and reviews.
Also included are recorded lectures based on his manuscript that Cedric presented at various venues and events.
item A45803/CS
Robert Molteno comments re: revisions
Spring 1982
Scope and Contents
ZED Press editor
item A45805/CS
KPFK - C.J. Robinson with Kwaku Lynn
1983 August 17
Scope and Contents
"Black Raidcalism and Marxism/Garvey Era"
20th Anniversary of
Black Marxism Conference
box 6, folder 7-10
An Anthropology of Marxism
1991-1999
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to the research, writing, and publication of
An Anthropology of Marxism. Materials may include notes, drafts, reference materials, correspondence, contracts, and reviews.
Also included are recorded lectures based on his manuscript that Cedric presented at various venues and events.
item A45751/CS
Anthropology of Marxism lecture at Duke University
1997 October 21
box 6, folder 11-19, box 10, flat-box 13
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Race and Early American Cinema
2001-2009
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to the research, writing, and publication of
Forgeries, Memory and Meaning: Race and Early American Cinema. Materials may include notes, drafts, reference materials - both manuscript and audiovisual, correspondence, contracts, and
reviews.
Cedric and Elizabeth also collected various racist imagery (advertisments, products, media, etc.), many of which were used
in the research and production of
Forgeries.
item V15912/DVD
White Dog
1982
Scope and Contents
A full, uncut version of
White Dog, that also includes Japenese subtitles.
item V15851/DVD
Paradise in Harlem, plus Burlesque in Harlem with Pigmeat Markham
Scope and Contents
A "Harlem Double Feature" DVD.
item V15850/VHS
The History of Racist Animation
Professional correspondence
box 6, folder 20
Publication correspondence
1985-1997
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from various publishers regarding publication in journals, anthologies, and requests for contributions.
box 6, folder 21; 29, box 12
Professional correspondence, re: research and writings
1980-2006
Scope and Contents
A copy of "Detroit, Marché noir: Des Noirs dans une grande ville industrielle des États-Unis" by Nelcya Delanoë, Professor
of American History at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, that includes a dedication to both Cedric and Elizabeth and a handwritten
inscription signed by Nelcya is also included in the collection.
box 6, folder 23
Rachel and Joel Samoff
1977
box 6, folder 24
Terence K. Hopkins
1976-1992
Scope and Contents
Includes a mix of correspondence and materials related to their time working at SUNY Binghamton, and other general research
topics.
box 6, folder 25
Tom Denyer
1976-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes a mix of correspondence and materials related to their time working at SUNY Binghamton, and other general research
topics.
box 8, folder 1-4
Correspondence and ephemera
1988-2011
box 8, folder 5, flat-box 14
C.L.R. James Conference papers
1971-1972
box 8, folder 7-8
Two Reservations, Sylvia Wynter Stanford Conference
1993-1994
box 8, folder 9
Policing LA - Angel of History Series
1994
box 8, folder 10
Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA)
2006
box 8, folder 11
In the Shadow of 'The Birth of a Nation': A Centennial Assessment of Griffith's Film
2015
Scope and Contents
A Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History held at the University College London (UCL).
"The conference will assess what the film meant and still means in terms of race relations, American history, and film history.
Keynote speakers will be Jane Gaines (Columbia University); Robert Lang (University of Hartford); Paul McEwan (Muhlenberg
College); Cedric Robinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), Jacqueline Stewart (University of Chicago) and Linda
Williams (University of California, Berkeley). Thanks to the collaboration of the British Film Institute, it is hoped to screen
The Birth of a Nation, perhaps in conjunction with Oscar Micheaux's
Within Our Gates (1920), at the National Film Theatre in London during the course of the conference."
box 8, folder 12
Kalamazoo Peace Center, Santiago Valles Symposium
Bunche Centennial Celebration: Ralph Bunche and the American Experience
2004
Faded Glory - Oscar Micheaux conference
2009
Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Conference at Syracuse University
2007
item A45797/CS
ASALH 61st Annual Convention
1976
Scope and Contents
Possibly recording from a session on John Blassingame's
The Slave Community during the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH) 61st Annual Convention held in Chicago.
Tape is labeled "Rawick [on Fogel, Genovese,] Blassingame."
[Unknown conference]
1980 May 9-10
item A45814/CS
Plenary 2:
1980 May 9
Scope and Contents
[Nyang], Strickland, Ayisi, Beckford, Seidman
item A45541/CS
Plenary 3:
Scope and Contents
Linda Meyers, Ed Brown, questions; Peter Blackman
item A45809/CS
C.L.R. James and Conference conclusion
1980 May 10
Scope and Contents
with Rod Thorton and and [Wentworth] Ofuatey-Kodjoe
item A45760/CS
Rodney Conference - Bobby Hill
1981 January 30
National Council for Black Studies - Berkeley Conference
1983 April 6-8
item A45764/CS
James Meredith: Keynote Address, #1
1983 April 6
item A45765/CS
Theman Taylor/Cedric Robinson, #2
1983 April 7
item A45775/CS
Garvey Papers Plenary
1983 April 8
item A45792/CS
Representation of [the Third] World in Film panel
1985 January 23
Scope and Contents
Speakers: Ed Guererro, Cynthia Marie Hamilton, [Chilaki Nuftandi], Mercedes de Uriarte, and Elliot Anthony Edwards.
item A45754/CS
Vincent Harding - Pan Africanism Revisited
1988 April 8
Scope and Contents
Conference sponsored by the Black Studies Department of the Claremont Colleges, organized by Sid Lemelle and .
Cedric presented his essay, "W. E. B. DuBois and Black Sovereignty."
item A45802/CS
50th Anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress
1995
Scope and Contents
"Pan African Congress 50 years on" held in Manchester, England.
item A45813/CS, item A45794/CS
Race, Class and Black Struggle,
Race & Class conference
1995 October 16
Scope and Contents
"A conference with Jan Carew, Manning Marable, Colin Prescord, Barbara Ransby, Cedric Robinson, and A. Sivanandan.
Race and Class [brought] together...leading black scholar-activists to discuss...themes of black and Third World liberation."
item A45750/CS
Politics & Language of Contemporary Marxism conference
1996 December 6
Scope and Contents
Rethinking Black Marxism panel
item A45811/CS
George Rawick - Critique of Jews on the Left
item A45747/CS
Ella [Shohat] and Cedric Robinson
item V18353/R5
Robert Williams - "Black Activism and Black Politics" (1st half)
1979 March 1
item V15865/VHS
Great Books:
Native Son
1996 September 15
Scope and Contents
"An introduction to author Richard Wright and to the story told in his literary portrait of racism in America, Native Son.
Authors and scholars discuss the two murders and the symbolism behind the fate that white lawyer Bigger meets when he is thrown
in jail.
Speakers include: John Edgar Wideman, Keneth Kinnamon, Maryemma Graham, Margaret Walker, Cedric Robinson, Remi Dreyfus, and
Michel Fabre."
item V15854/VHS, item V15866/VHS
Eyes on the Prize
Scope and Contents
Includes two separate recordings of Acts 1, 2, and 3. Tapes are also labeled "Richard Wright documentary [with Cedric J. Robinson]."
"
Eyes on the Prize is a 14-part series [that aired PBS,] originally released in two parts:
Eyes I in 1987 and
Eyes II in 1990."
box 9
Notes
Scope and Contents
Various notepads and notebooks with notes, outlines, and reference lists. Some focus on a theme or topic, such as film studies
or departmental work, but a majority contain mixed topics or unspecified drafts.
Subject files
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and reference materials for various research topics not specifically related to a manuscript or course. Creator
titles have been maintained when possible.
Robinson kept an extensive amount of excerpts from published resources, including books, journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Materials with notations and materials not widely available have been retained here. Materials without unique notes and materials
that are more easily accesible have been physically separated from the collection, but a bibliography of titles organized
by topic has been produced and included.
box 9, folder 7
Landmarks and Milestones timeline, 1492-1964
box 9, folder 8
John Earls on Organization of Power in Quechua Mythology
box 9, folder 9
Ann Ruth Wilner on Charismatic Leaders
1968
box 9, folder 10
Native and Black North American history
box 9, folder 11
Howard County Heritage - Racial Riot of 1883
box 10
Other reference materials
Scope and Contents
Includes topics such as African-American theatre, black representation in film, black fascism, and race science.
Published materials
Scope and Contents
Includes unique publications - pamphlets, journals, magazines, booklets, newsletters, and small publications.
box 9, folder 12
Life Histories from the Revolution - Kenya, Mau-Mau, 1-2
1973
Scope and Contents
Organized by Don Barnett
- Number 1 - The Hardcore, The Story of Karigo Muchai
- Number 2 - Man in the Middle, Ngugi Kabiro
box 9, folder 13
Labor movements
1943-1979
- American Labor History: Race and Ethnicity in the Working Class
- The Labor Movement in the South During Slavery by Herbert Aptheker
- Grenada: 'Let Those Who Labour Hold the Reins' by Bernard Coard and Chris Searle
- Black Workers and the Class Struggle by Roscoe Proctor
- Black Coal Miners in the United States by Paul Nyden
- Wendell Phillips by James J. Green
- South Africa: Workers Under Apartheid by Alex Hepple
- Papa Doc Baraka: Fascism in Newark by the National Caucus of Labor Committees
- Sex, Race and Class by Selma James
- Triple Revolution
box 9, folder 14
Education
1971-1973
- Education to Govern: A Philosophy and Program for Learning Now! by the All-African Peoples Union
- The Effect of Education on Racism: The Two German States and the USA by Claude M. Lightfoot
- Bias and Prejudice in Textbooks in Use in New York City Schools - An Indictment! A Teachers Union Report
- Academic Freedom in the Secondary Schools by the ACLU
box 9, Folder 15
On C.L.R. James
1991-2018
- C.L.R. James and
The Struggle for Happiness by Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart
- Popular Democracy and The Creative Imagination: The Writings of C.L.R. James, 1950-1963 by Anna Grimshaw
- The C.L.R. James Reader: Contents, Preface, and Introduction by Anna Grimshaw
- The C.L.R. James Archive: A Reader's Guide by Anna Grimshaw
- The Young C.L.R. James, A Graphic Novellete by Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware
box 9, folder 16
By C.L.R. James
1969-1976
- Notes on Dialectics: Hegel and Marxism
- Not for Sale by Michael Manley, with a supplement by C.L.R. James
- State Capitalism and World Revolution
box 9, folder 17-18
Communist Party
1935-1976
- Freedom is Everybody's Job! The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People (Summation in the Trial of the 11 Communist
leaders) by George W. Crockett, Jr.
- The Communist Position on the Negro Question: Self-Determination for the Black Belt
- How Socialism will come to the United States: The Viewpoint of the Communist Party
- Ben Davis: Crusader for Negro Freedom and Socialism by William L. Patterson
- Some Aspects of the Negro Question in the United States, World Marxist Review by James E. Jackson
- Black and White - One Class, One Fight: the role of white workers in the struggle against racism by Henry Winston
- Next Steps in the Struggle for Negro Freedom by Hugh Bradley
- Hunger and Terror in Harlem by James W. Ford
- Racism and Reaction in the United States: Two Marxian Studies by Bettina Aptheker and Herbert Aptheker
- Marxism and the Negro Struggle by Harold Cruse, George Breitman, and Clifton DeBerry
- The Communists and the Struggle for Negro Liberation by James W. Ford
- The Communist Position on the Negro Question
- Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism and Self-Determination by Leon Trotsky and George Breitman
- The Negro People and the Communists by Doxey A. Wilkerson
- In Defense of the Right to Self-Determination by Carl Davidson
- This is My Husband: Fighter for His People, Political Refugee by Esther Cooper Jackson
- Lenin in Britain: a communist party pamphlet by Andrew Rothstein
- Next Steps in the Struggle for Negro Freedom by Hugh Bradley
- Black America and the World Revolution by Claude M. Lightfoot
- Negro Liberation: A Goal For All Americans by Henry M. Winston, Gus Hall, Claude Lightfoot, and William L. Patterson
- The Party of Negro and White by Pettis Perry
box 9, folder 19
Black Freedom and Leadership
1938-1972
- On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party, Part 1 by Eldridge Cleaver
- Negro Americans Take the Lead: A Statement on the Crisis in American Civilization
- Ten Extra Years by Henry A. Wallace
- Negro Liberation by James S. Allen
- Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party by James Boggs
- Toward the Creation of Political Institutions for All African Peoples by Imamu Amiri Baraka
- Strategy for a Black Agenda: A Critique of New Theories of Liberation in the United States and Africa by Henry Winston
- Negro Freedom is in the Interest of Every American by Gus Hall
- Ben Davis: Fighter for Freedom by Claudia Jones and Eslanda Goode Robeson
- The Negro People and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom by Benjamin J. Davis
box 9, folder 20
Racism
1951-1979
- Race and Resistance: The IRR Story by A. Sivanandan
- America's Racist Laws: Weapon of National Oppression by Herbert Aptheker
- Police Against Black People: Evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure
- Caribs, "Cannibals," and Human Relations: A Revealing Exposure of Smears and Stereotypes by Richard B. Moore
- Were Marx and Engels White Racists? The Prolet-Aryan Outlook of Marx and Engels by Carlos Moore
- Fight Racism - For Unity and Progress! by Henry Winston
- Racism - The Nation's Most Dangerous Pollutant by Gus Hall
- Rape, Racism, and the White Women's Movement: An Answer to Susan Brownmiller by Allison Edwards
box 9, folder 21
Black histories in America
1937-1977
- American Slavery and the Capitalist World-Economy by Immanuel Wallerstein
- The Negro in America, Public Affairs Pamphlet Number 95 by Maxwell S. Stewart
- America's Tenth Man: A Brief Survey of the Negro's Part in American History
- Craftsmanship: A Tradition in Black America by Broadus N. Butler
- A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain
- Black Americans in the Spanish People's War Against Fascism, 1936-1939
- Underhanded History of the USA by Nick Thorkelson and Jim O'Brien
box 9, folder 22
International topics
1931-1981
Content Warning
South Africa's Record of International Terrorism includes graphic images of deceased individuals.
- South Africa's Record of International Terrorism by Tony Gifford
- The Origins of the Anarchist Movement in China
- The Richness of African Negro Languages by Frieda Fligelman
- The African-Lebanese Mulattoes of West Africa: A Racial Frontier by Fuad L. Khuri
- Aspects of the Political Economy of Race in the Caribbean and the Americas: A Preliminary Interpretation by Norman Girvan
- Black Jamaicans' Struggle Against Slavery pamphlet by Richard Hart; includes a letter from Richard Hart to P.E. Dos Ramos
in Guyana
- Cabral on Nkrumah: Partido Africano da Independencia da Guine e Cabo Verde by Amilcar Cabral
Anarchy
1971-1972
- Anarchy magazine, Nos. 3, 5, 7, and 9
- Kronstadt, 1921 by Victor Serge, reprinted from Solidarity, Volume 1, Number 7
- REVOLUTIONNARISME POST-BOURGEOIS EN FRANCE, EN ALLEMAGNE ET AUX ETATS-UNIS by Ronald Inglehart. Published in Politico (Pavia,
Italy) Volume 36, Number 2
- The Italian State Massacre published by Libertaria Books
- Prolegomena: To a Study of the Return of the Repressed in History published by the Solidarity Bookshop
- Anarchist Communism by Errico Malatesta
- Anarchy by Errico Malatesta, with a Biographical Note and Malatesta's Statement on his Return to Italy in 1913
box 9, folder 23
Other mixed topics
1966-2014
Language of Material: French.
Scope and Contents
Titles include:
- Letters from the Death House by Wesley Robert Wells
- Kaliman: El Hombre Increible comic, Volume 20, Issue 1062
- Mac Bird! "The Play's the Thing Wherein I'll Catch the Conscience of the King" by Barbara Garson
- Drifting Into a Law and Order Society by Stuart Hall
- Madison, Wisconsin: A City in Nine Objects, publication by Madison Mutual Drift
- Politcal aspects of the Great Jamahiriya's position on the accusations resulting from the explosion of American and French
aeroplanes
- Baraza Papers, No. 1 by SFSU Black Studies Department
- International Dependency in the 1970s by the Africa Research Group
- Nèg'marrons d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: Manifeste Nombre 3, concu et redige par le Collectif de la Marche du 22 mai 2005
box 10, folder 1
Radical America
1970-1976
box 10, folder 2
Political Affairs
1946-1971
Scope and Contents
A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis; Theoretical Journal of the Communist Party, U.S.A.; A magazine devoted to the theory
and practice of Marxism-Leninism
box 10, folder 6
Third World Coalition Newsletter
box 10, folder 7
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) publications
box 10, folder 9
Lies of Our Time (LOOT)
Scope and Contents
A political magazine published between January 1990 and December 1994, that served as a general media critic and a watchdog
of
The New York Times.
box 10, folder 10
Searchlight: An Anti-Fascist Monthly
1984
Scope and Contents
A British magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable and Maurice Ludmer, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism
and fascism in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Visual resources
Scope and Contents
Recordings of full-length movies, television documentaries, news reports, and other relevant media that Robinson used for
both his own research and as teaching supplements.
item V15852/DVD
Oscar Micheaux's
Within Our Gates
item V15887/VHS
Hollywoodism: Jews, the Movies & the American Dream
item V15885/VHS
Rufus Jones for President;
Princess Tam Tam;
Zouzou
1933-1935
item V15871/VHS
Hattie McDaniel
2001 August 7
item V15893/VHS
[The] Green Pastures;
The World, [the] Flesh [and] the Devil;
Betty Boop
1930-1959
item V15901/VHS
[The] Naked Gun and
South Africa Now
South Africa Now: The Gods Must be Crazy II
item V15888/VHS
Here I Stand: [Paul Robeson] biography and
In the Heat of the Sun
item V15875/VHS
Home of the Brave and
The Negro Soldier
1944-1949
item V15900/VHS
Coup de Torchon clip and Grenada & Press
item V15877/VHS
[The Black Press:] Soldiers Without Swords
item V15874/VHS
World Trade Center
2001 September 11
item V15907/VHS
Xica da Silva and
Dona Flor
item V15891/VHS
Elmo Lincoln: Tarzan of the Apes
1918
Scope and Contents
"The original silent film version of the classic jungle story."
item V15886/VHS
Go Down, Death!;
The Blood of Jesus;
Juke Girl
1941-1944
item V15857/VHS
Josephine Baker Biography; Senegalese Singer concert
item V15861/VHS
Blackboard Jungle;
Defiant Ones; [
Long Ships]
1955-1964
item V15892/VHS
"Name of the Rose" clips; "Causalities of War" clips; Summer of '97
item V15872/VHS
Lumumba
Scope and Contents
Original case was also labeled "6 min. 4 sec."
item V15895/VHS
Christic Institute; Goleta Fire
1990 June 27
box 11, box 12
Annotated books
- Blee, Kathleen M.
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. University of California Press, 1991.
- Wilhelm, Sidney M.
Who Needs the Negro? Anchor Books, 1971.
- Cammett, John McKay.
Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism. Stanford University Press, 1971.
- Cabral, Amilcar.
Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts. Monthly Review Press, 1969.
- Kovel, Joel.
White Racism: A Psychohistory. Pantheon Books, 1970.
- Greenberg, Edward S.
Serving the Few: Corporate Capitalism and the Bias of Government Policy. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1974.
- White, Walter, and R. Baxter Miller.
The Fire in the Flint: A Young Doctor's Tragic Confrontation with the Segregated South. The University of Georgia Press, 1996.
- van den Berghe, Pierre L.
Caneville: The Social Structure of a South African Town. Wesleyan University Press, 1964.
- Geiss, Imanuel.
The Pan-African Movement. Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1974.
- Takaki, Ronald T.
Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents. Capricorn Books, 1972.
- Bottomore, T.B.
Elites and Society. Basic Books, Inc., 1964.
- Merkl, Peter H.
The Origin of the West German Republic. Oxford University Press, 1963.
- First, Ruth.
Power in Africa: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'Etat. Penguin Books, 1972.
- Record, Wilson.
The Negro and the Communist Party. Atheneum, 1971.
- Lefkowitz, Mary.
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1996.
- Coombes, Annie E.
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination. Yale University Press, 1994.
- Davis, David.
Slavery and Human Progress. Oxford University Press, 1984.
- Fitch, Bob and Mary Oppenheimer.
Ghana: End of an Illusion. Monthly Review Press, 1968
- Césaire, Aimé.
Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press, 1972.
- Cabral, Amilcar.
Return to the Source, Selected Speeches. Africa Information Service, 1973.
- Wheeler, Roxann.
The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
- Anderson, Perry.
Arguments Within English Marxism. Verso Books, 1980.
- Mannheim, Karl.
Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge. Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1936.
- Engels, Frederick.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. International Publishers, 1969.
- Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma.
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. University of California Press, 2005.
- Butters, Jr., Gerald R.
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. University Press of Kansas, 2002.
- Avineri, Shlomo.
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx. Cambridge Universtiy Press, 1975.
- Marcuse, Herbert.
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1967.
- Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, and Robert C. Tucker.
The Marx-Engels Reader. Harper and Row, Publishers, 1972.
- Brody, David.
Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era. Harper and Row, Publishers, 1969.
- Barnet, Richard J., and Ronald E. Muller.
Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations. Simon and Schuster, 1974.
- Erikson, Erik H.
Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1962.
- Lienhardt, Godfrey.
Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, 1967.
- Piaget, Jean, and Chaninah Maschler.
Structuralism. Harper and Row, Publishers, 1971.
- Herskovits, Melville J.
The Myth of the Negro Past. Beacon Press, 1958.
- Walker, David, and Sean Wilentz.
Appeal, in Four Articles. Hill and Wang, 1995.
- Barbu, Zevedei.
Problems of Historical Psychology. Grove Press, Inc., 1960.
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques, and Willmoore Kendall.
The Social Contract. Henry Regnery Company, 1954.
- Patterson, William L.
The Man Who Cried Genocide: An Autobiography. International Publishers, 1971.
- Dumon, Frank.
The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia. M. Witmark and Sons, 1899.
- Trotsky, Leon.
Literature and Revolution. The University of Michigan Press, 1966.
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. Meridian Books, 1969.
- Ortega y Gasset, Jose.
The Revolt of the Masses. W.W. Norton and Company, 1932.
- Rodinson, Maxime.
Islam and Capitalism. Pantheon Books, 1973.
- Plato, and W.C. Helmbold.
Gorgias. The Liberal Arts Press, 1955.
- Cross, Robert Craigie, and A. D. Woozley.
Plato's Republic: A Philosophical Commentary. St. Martin's Press, 1979.
- Apter, David.
The Gold Coast in Transition. Princeton University Press, 1959.
- Ousmane, Sembene.
Xala. Lawrence Hill and Co., 1976.
- Athanassakis, Apostolos N.
Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
- Cameron, Averil, and Amelie Kuhrt.
Images of Women in Antiquity. Wayne State University Press, 1983.
box 15, box 16, box 17
Stereographs
Scope and Contents
Collection of 440 color and black and white stereographs. Images range in focus and theme - from landscape, landmarks, buildings,
events, and people. Some groupings include:
- Africa - Congo, Algeria, Egypt
- United States - landscapes and "patriotic" imagery
- Central and South America - Venezuela, Mexico, Bolivia, Panama
- Caribbean - Cuba, Jamaica
- Europe - Greece, United Kingdom
- Asia - India, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Philippines, Russia
- World's Fairs and other expositions
- War imagery
- Racist imagery
- Religious imagery
- Film stills
Also included are several stereographic viewers.
