1st Edition

Black Heretics, Black Prophets Radical Political Intellectuals

By Anthony Bogues Copyright 2003
274 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2003. This pioneering new book surveys the political thought of a selection of influential black thinkers in provocative exploration of the black radical tradition as it has evolved in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Each chapter focuses on key figures or social movement including the slave Cugoano, the American anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, C.L.R.... Read more
Opening Chant; Part 1 The Heretics; Chapter 1 The Political Thought of Quobna Cugoano; Chapter 2 The Radical Praxis of Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Chapter 3 C. L. R. James and W. E. B. Du Bois; Chapter 4 Julius Nyerere; Chapter 5 Walter Rodney; Part 2 The Prophets; Chapter 6 Rastafari; Chapter 7 Get Up, Stand Up; oth2 Closing Chant;

Biography

Anthony Bogues

"[a] rare theorist who has spent as much time and energy on the political ground as in the academy...theoretically sophisticated, remarkably insightful, passionate and inspiring...This is a book for our time." -- Linda Alcoff, SUNY Stony Brook and Syracuse University