There Is No Black American Community

This work argues that there is no Black American community in America outside of their segregation associated with their relations to, and differentiation within, the American modes and means of production. Ever since their arrival onto the shores of America, black identity and practical consciousness, in other words, have been determined by their actions and reactions to their interpellation and embourgeoisement by whites to the social class language games of the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. There is no sui generis Black American community with its own form of system and social integration that is different from, or diametrically opposes, the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism of their white counterparts, which would emerge out of that relationship.