The terms "racial capitalism," "Black Marxism" and "Black Radicalism/Black Radical Tradition" have found their ways into college classrooms, organizing spaces, community gatherings, online think pieces and elsewhere. In this seminar, students will engage in a slow reading of Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, to explore the development of Robinson's ideas over the course of his foundational text. We will practice a reading methodology that, as befitting Black Studies, allows room for us to ask questions, take detours and explore what are sure to be important overlaps and tensions. In doing so, students will develop a more nuanced understanding of these terms to grasp, complicate, struggle with and challenge how they are used in specific contexts over forty years after the initial publication of Robinson's manuscript. As part of this methodology, students will also be asked to follow Robinson's intellectual and political genealogies; in other words, we will also read who he read, thereby situating him alongside interlocutors in other fields and disciplines of study.