African American political thought : a collected history / edited by Melvin L. Rogers, Jack Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogers, Melvin L., editor.

Turner, Jack, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--United States--Philosophy.

Political science.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African Americans--Politics and government--Philosophy.

African Americans.

Black nationalism.

African American political activists.

African American philosophy.

African American philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (771 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]

Summary:

African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression. The collected essays consider such figures as Martin Delany, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, whose works are addressed by scholars such as Farah Jasmin Griffin, Robert Gooding-Williams, Michael Dawson, Nick Bromell, Neil Roberts, and Lawrie Balfour. While African American political thought is inextricable from the historical movement of American political thought, this volume stresses the individuality of Black thinkers, the transnational and diasporic consciousness, and how individual speakers and writers draw on various traditions simultaneously to broaden our conception of African American political ideas. This landmark volume gives us the opportunity to tap into the myriad and nuanced political theories central to Black life. In doing so, African American Political Thought: A Collected History transforms how we understand the past and future of political thinking in the West.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Political Theorizing in Black: An Introduction

1 Phillis Wheatley and the Rhetoric of Politics and Race

2 David Walker: Citizenship, Judgment, Freedom, and Solidarity

3 Martin Delany’s Two Principles, the Argument for Emigration, and Revolutionary Black Nationalism

4 Harriet Jacobs: Prisoner of Hope

5 Frederick Douglass: Nonsovereign Freedom and the Plurality of Political Resistance

6 Alexander Crummell’s Three Visions of Black Nationalism

7. Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Deception

8 Anna Julia Cooper: Radical Relationality and the Ethics of Interdependence

9 Ida B. Wells on Racial Criminalization

10 W. E. B. Du Bois: Afro- modernism, Expressivism, and the Curse of Centrality

11 Marcus Garvey: The Black Prince?

12 A. Philip Randolph: Radicalizing Rights at the Intersection of Class and Race

13 Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Individualism

14 George S. Schuyler: Post- Souls Satirist

15 C. L. R. James: Race, Revolution, and Black Liberation

16 Langston Hughes’s Ambivalent Political Expressivism

17 Thurgood Marshall: The Legacy and Limits of Equality under the Law

18 Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West

19 Bayard Rustin: Between Democratic Theory and Black Political Thought

20 Ralph Ellison: Democratic Theorist

21 James Baldwin: Democracy between Nihilism and Hope

22 Malcolm X: Dispatches on Racial Cruelty

23 Martin Luther King: Strategist of Force

24 Toni Morrison and the Fugitives’ Democracy

25 Audre Lorde’s Politics of Difference

26 Stokely Carmichael and the Longing for Black Liberation: Black Power and Beyond

27 Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony

28 Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom

29 Clarence Thomas: Race Pessimism and Black Capitalism

30 Cornel West and the Black Prophetic Tradition

Acknowledgments

Index

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-72607-X

OCLC:

1229918309