My judgment makes me political : David Walker's transformative appeal -- Living an anti-slavery life: Walker on the demandingness of freedom -- Being a slave of the community : race, domination, and Republicanism -- The people's two bodies -- Lynching and the horrific : from Ida B. Wells to Billie Holiday -- Propaganda and rhetoric : on W. E. B. Du Bois's "Criteria of Negro Art" -- Calling the people to a higher vision : on The Souls of Black Folk -- James Baldwin's gift
Summary:
"A major new account of an ethical vision of democracy articulated and enacted by a group of 19th and 20th century African American abolitionists, activists, artists, and political thinkers"-- Provided by publisher.
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