African American Political Thought

Melvin L. Rogers is associate professor of political science at Brown University. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy. Jack Turner is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. He is the author of Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America.  

Political Theorizing in Black: An Introduction Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner
1    Phillis Wheatley and the Rhetoric of Politics and Race Vincent Carretta
2    David Walker: Citizenship, Judgment, Freedom, and Solidarity Melvin L. Rogers
3    Martin Delany’s Two Principles, the Argument for Emigration, and Revolutionary Black Nationalism Robert Gooding-Williams
4    Harriet Jacobs: Prisoner of Hope Nick Bromell
5    Frederick Douglass: Nonsovereign Freedom and the Plurality of Political Resistance Sharon R. Krause
6    Alexander Crummell’s Three Visions of Black Nationalism Frank M. Kirkland
7    Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Deception Desmond Jagmohan
8    Anna Julia Cooper: Radical Relationality and the Ethics of Interdependence
Carol Wayne White

9    Ida B. Wells on Racial Criminalization Naomi Murakawa
10    W. E. B. Du Bois: Afro-modernism, Expressivism, and the Curse of Centrality Paul C. Taylor
11    Marcus Garvey: The Black Prince? Michael Dawson
12    A. Philip Randolph: Radicalizing Rights at the Intersection of Class and Race Michael McCann
13    Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Individualism Farah Jasmine Griffin
14    George S. Schuyler: Post-Souls Satirist Jeffrey B. Ferguson
15    C. L. R. James: Race, Revolution, and Black Liberation Anthony Bogues
16    Langston Hughes’s Ambivalent Political Expressivism Jason Frank
17    Thurgood Marshall: The Legacy and Limits of Equality under the Law Daniel Moak
18    Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West Tommie Shelby
19    Bayard Rustin: Between Democratic Theory and Black Political Thought George Shulman
20    Ralph Ellison: Democratic Theorist Danielle Allen
21    James Baldwin: Democracy between Nihilism and Hope John E. Drabinski
22    Malcolm X: Dispatches on Racial Cruelty Nikhil Pal Singh
23    Martin Luther King: Strategist of Force David L. Chappell
24    Toni Morrison and the Fugitives’ Democracy Lawrie Balfour
25    Audre Lorde’s Politics of Difference Jack Turner
26    Stokely Carmichael and the Longing for Black Liberation: Black Power and Beyond Brandon M. Terry
27    Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony Cedric G. Johnson
28    Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom Neil Roberts
29    Clarence Thomas: Race Pessimism and Black Capitalism Corey Robin
30    Cornel West and the Black Prophetic Tradition Mark D. Wood
Acknowledgments
Index
Contributors