Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Political Theorizing in Black: An Introduction 1
4. 1 Phillis Wheatley and the Rhetoric of Politics and Race 31
5. 2 David Walker: Citizenship, Judgment, Freedom, and Solidarity 52
6. 3 Martin Delany’s Two Principles, the Argument for Emigration, and Revolutionary Black Nationalism 77
7. 4 Harriet Jacobs: Prisoner of Hope 95
8. 5 Frederick Douglass: Nonsovereign Freedom and the Plurality of Political Resistance 116
9. 6 Alexander Crummell’s Three Visions of Black Nationalism 142
10. 7. Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Deception 167
11. 8 Anna Julia Cooper: Radical Relationality and the Ethics of Interdependence 192
12. 9 Ida B. Wells on Racial Criminalization 212
13. 10 W. E. B. Du Bois: Afro- modernism, Expressivism, and the Curse of Centrality 235
14. 11 Marcus Garvey: The Black Prince? 260
15. 12 A. Philip Randolph: Radicalizing Rights at the Intersection of Class and Race 290
16. 13 Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Individualism 314
17. 14 George S. Schuyler: Post- Souls Satirist 330
18. 15 C. L. R. James: Race, Revolution, and Black Liberation 352
19. 16 Langston Hughes’s Ambivalent Political Expressivism 367
20. 17 Thurgood Marshall: The Legacy and Limits of Equality under the Law 386
21. 18 Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West 413
22. 19 Bayard Rustin: Between Democratic Theory and Black Political Thought 439
23. 20 Ralph Ellison: Democratic Theorist 460
24. 21 James Baldwin: Democracy between Nihilism and Hope 481
25. 22 Malcolm X: Dispatches on Racial Cruelty 497
26. 23 Martin Luther King: Strategist of Force 516
27. 24 Toni Morrison and the Fugitives’ Democracy 541
28. 25 Audre Lorde’s Politics of Difference 563
29. 26 Stokely Carmichael and the Longing for Black Liberation: Black Power and Beyond 593
30. 27 Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony 631
31. 28 Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom 660
32. 29 Clarence Thomas: Race Pessimism and Black Capitalism 685
33. 30 Cornel West and the Black Prophetic Tradition 705
34. Acknowledgments 731
35. Index 733
36. Contributors 759