Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present

Cambridge University Press, 11/14/2019
EAN 9781316648995, ISBN10: 1316648990

Paperback, 374 pages, 24.6 x 18.9 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

In Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present, Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses central to black political thought and African American politics, compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150 years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction, race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the six thematic parts is framed by an introduction written by black scholars working in the field, and a list of further readings. Individual chapters are then enhanced by end-of-chapter questions and author biographies. Written for the interdisciplinary field of black studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines, this textbook offers a unique resource for political scientists, sociologists, historians, feminists, and the general reader of black political thought.

Preface
Introduction
Key concepts, ideas, and issues that have formed black political thought Sherrow O. Pinder
Part I. Slavery and its Discontents
Let your Motto Be Resistance! Resistance! Resistance! Brenda E. Stevenson
1. Our wretchedness in consequence of slavery David Walker
2. An address to the slaves of the United States Henry Highland Garnet
3. Comparative condition of the colored people of the United States Martin Robison Delany
4. What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass
5. Why sit ye here and die Maria Stewart
Part II. Reconstruction
Nikki Lynne Marie Brown
6. Of the dawn of freedom W. E. B. Du Bois
7. Political independence of the Negro T. Thomas Fortune
8. The case of the Negro Booker T. Washington
Part III. Black Nationalism
Babacar M'Baye
9. A vindication of the capacity of the Negro race for self-government, and civilized progress James Theodore Holly
10. The true solution of the Negro problem Marcus Garvey
11. Toward black liberation Stokely Carmichael
Part IV. Race and Racism
Cahrisse Burden-Stelly
12. The race-problem in America Alexander Crummell
13. The conservation of the races W. E. B. Du Bois
14. Lynch laws in all its phases Ida B. Wells
Part V. Feminism and Difference
Sherrow O. Pinder
15. The progress of colored women Mary Church Terrell
16. What's in a name? Womanism, black feminism and beyond Patricia Hill Collins
17. To be black, male, and 'feminist' – making womanist space for black men Gary L. Lemons
Part VI. Past, Present, and Future Issues
Erica Cooper
18. Whiteness as property Cheryl I. Harris
19. Whiteness, racism, and identity Barbara J. Fields
20. The antidemocratic power of whiteness Kathleen Neal Cleaver
Glossary
Index.