Black Heretics, Black Prophets Radical Political Intellectuals

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. James, W.E.B DuDois, former leader of the anti-colonial movement in Tanzania Julius Nyerere, Walter Rodney, the political philosophy of Rastafari and the activist- musican Bob Marley. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of radical black thought and the development of an activist political tradition.
Contents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction - Opening Chant: The Full Has Never Been Told, Heresy, Prophesy, Praxis and The Black Radical Political Intellectual.
The Heretics
Chapter 1. The Political Thought of Quobna Cugoano: Radicalized Natural Liberty
Chapter 2. The Radical Praxis of Ida. B. Wells: Telling the Truth Freely
Chapter 3. C.L.R. James and W.E.B. DuBois: Heresy, Double Consciousness and Revisionist Histories
Chapter 4. Julius Nyerere: Radical African Humanism, Equality and Decolonization
Chapter 5. Walter Rodney: Groundings, Revolution and the Politics of Post-Coloniality
The Prophets
Chapter 6. Rastafari, Babylon, Dread History and the Politics of Jah
Chapter 7. Get Up, Stand Up: The Redemptive Poetics of Bob Marley
Closing Chant