African American Political Thought

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
Carol Wayne White

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