From the Book - Revised and updated third edition.
Part 1. The emergence and limitations of European radicalism: 1. Racial capitalism: the nonobjective character of capitalist development ; 2. The English working class as the mirror of production ; 3. Socialist theory and nationalism
Part 2. The roots of Black radicalism: 4. The process and consequences of Africa's transmutation ; 5. The Atlantic slave trade and African labor ; 6. The historical archaeology of the Black radical tradition ; 7. The nature of the Black radical tradition
Part 3. Black radicalism and Marxist theory: 8. The formation of an intelligentsia ; 9. Historiography and the Black radical tradition ; 10. C. L. R. James and the Black radical tradition ; 11. Richard Wright and the critique of Class Theory ; 12. An ending.