Black Prophetic Fire
By Cornel West and Christa Buschendorf
By Cornel West and Christa Buschendorf
By Cornel West and Christa Buschendorf
By Cornel West and Christa Buschendorf
Category: World History | Biography & Memoir
Category: World History | Biography & Memoir
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$18.95
Sep 01, 2015 | ISBN 9780807018101
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Oct 07, 2014 | ISBN 9780807003534
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Praise
“Lively, heated, fighting words…”
—Kirkus Reviews
“[West’s] mini-lectures, which frequently run uninterrupted for pages at a time, and Buschendorf’s instructive set-ups for them…convey a wealth of information.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A fascinating exploration of the black prophetic genius and fire of Douglass, Du Bois, King, Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells, this book reminds us what true leadership, sacrifice, and courageous, inspirational truth-telling looks like and why it is so urgently needed in the quest for justice today.”
—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Why We Need to Talk About Black Prophetic Fire
One: It’s a Beautiful Thing to Be on Fire—Frederick Douglass
Two: The Black Flame—W. E. B. Du Bois
Three: Moral Fire—Martin Luther King Jr.
Four: The Heat of Democratic Existentialism—Ella Baker
Five: Revolutionary Fire—Malcolm X
Six: Prophetic Fire—Ida B. Wells
Conclusion: Last Words on the Black Prophetic Tradition in the Age of Obama
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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