# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cedric-robinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:21.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cedric-robinson"
name: "Cedric Robinson"
slug: "cedric-robinson"
description: "Cedric James Robinson was an American professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He headed the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science. He served as the director of the Center for Black Studies Research. Robinson's areas of interest included classical and modern political philosophy, radical social theory in the African diaspora, comparative politics, racial capitalism, and the relationships between and among media and politics."
tagline: "American activist (1940-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cedric_Robinson_Speaking.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-11-05"
deathDate: "2016-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.881118881118882
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  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Cedric J. Robinson"
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    title: "Cedric Robinson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump