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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797981403321

Autore

Bogues Anthony

Titolo

Black heretics, black prophets : radical political intellectuals / / Anthony Bogues

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-86562-9

1-317-95826-8

1-317-95825-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Africana thought : the world of black philosophy

Disciplina

320.011

Soggetti

African Americans - Politics and government

African Americans - Intellectual life

African American intellectuals

African American radicals

Radicalism

Heresy

Black people - Africa - Intellectual life

Black people - Jamaica - Intellectual life

Black people - Africa - Politics and government

Black people - Jamaica - Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Opening Chant  The Full Has Never Been Told: Heresy, Prophecy, 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-Barnett: Telling the Truth Freely; Chapter 3 C. L. R. James and W. E. B. Du Bois: 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 PostcolonialityThe 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; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index