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African American Political Thought offers a history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who addressed the central issues of the American polity, democracy, race, sovereignty and engagement. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual thinkers from over the past four centuries and with an expansive approach to political expression, considering figures from Ida B. Wells to James Baldwin, Martin Delany to Audre Lorde and W. E. B. Du Bois to Toni Morrison. While African American political thought is inextricable from the historical movement of American political thought, its norms and stated concerns, this volume stresses the individuality of black minds, the transnational and diasporic consciousness, and how individual speakers and writers draw on various traditions simultaneously to broaden our conception of African American political ideologies. Transformative insights on political thought and democratic theory account for the contexts and conditions of black life, and thereby deepen inquiry into nationhood and citizenship. Rogers and Turner call on us to pluralize our sense of what kinds of political outlooks count as American and reconstitute our frameworks for freedom.
Political theorizing in black: an introduction / Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner -- Phillis Wheatley and the rhetoric of politics and race / Vincent Carretta -- David Walker: citizenship, judgment, freedom, and solidarity / Melvin L. Rogers -- Martin Delany's two principles, the argument for emigration, and revolutionary Black Nationalism / Robert Gooding-Williams -- Harriet Jacobs: prisoner of hope / Nick Bromel -- Frederick Douglass: nonsovereign freedom and the plurality of political resistance / Sharon R. Krause -- Alexander Crummell's three visions of Black Nationalism / Frank M. Kirkland -- Booker T. Washington and the politics of deception / Desmond Jagmohan -- Anna Julia Cooper: radical relationality and the ethics of interdependence / Carol Wayne White -- Ida B. Wells on racial criminalization / Naomi Murakawa -- W. E. B. Du Bois: Afro-modernism, expressivism, and the curse of centrality / Paul C. Taylor -- Marcus Garvey: the black prince? / Michael Dawson -- A. Philip Randolph: radicalizing rights at the intersection of class and race / Michael McCann -- Zora Neale Hurston's radical individualism / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- George S. Schuyler: post-souls satirist / Jeffrey B. Ferguson -- C. L. R. James: race, revolution, and black liberation / Anthony Bogues -- Langston Hughes's ambivalent political expressivism / Jason Frank -- Thurgood Marshall: the legacy and limits of equality under the law / Daniel Moak -- Richard Wright: realizing the promise of the West / Tommie Shelby -- Bayard Rustin: between democratic theory and black political thought / George Shulman -- Ralph Ellison: democratic theorist / Danielle Allen -- James Baldwin: democracy between nihilism and hope / John E. Drabinski -- Malcolm X: dispatches on racial cruelty / Nikhil Pal Singh -- Martin Luther King: strategist of force / David L. Chappell -- Toni Morrison and the fugitives democracy / Lawrie Balfour -- Audre Lorde's politics of difference / Jack Turner -- Stokely Carmichael and the longing for black liberation: black power and beyond / Brandon M. Terry -- Huey P. Newton and the last days of the black colony / Cedric G. Johnson -- Angela Y. Davis: abolitionism, democracy, freedom / Neil Roberts -- Clarence Thomas: race pessimism and black capitalism / Corey Robin -- Cornel West and the black prophetic tradition / Mark D. Wood.
edited by Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner.
Includes bibliographical references and index.