Black Political Thought

Preface; Introduction; Key concepts, ideas, and issues that have formed black political thought Sherrow O. Pinder; Part I. Slavery and its Discontents: Let your Motto Be Resistance! Resistance! Resistance! Brenda E. Stevenson; 1. Our wretchedness in consequence of slavery David Walker; 2. An address to the slaves of the United States Henry Highland Garnet; 3. Comparative condition of the colored people of the United States Martin Robison Delany; 4. What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass; 5. Why sit ye here and die Maria Stewart; Part II. Reconstruction: Nikki Lynne Marie Brown; 6. Of the dawn of freedom W. E. B. Du Bois; 7. Political independence of the Negro T. Thomas Fortune; 8. The case of the Negro Booker T. Washington; Part III. Black Nationalism: Babacar M'Baye; 9. A vindication of the capacity of the Negro race for self-government, and civilized progress James Theodore Holly; 10. The true solution of the Negro problem Marcus Garvey; 11. Toward black liberation Stokely Carmichael; Part IV. Race and Racism: Cahrisse Burden-Stelly; 12. The race-problem in America Alexander Crummell; 13. The conservation of the races W. E. B. Du Bois; 14. Lynch laws in all its phases Ida B. Wells; Part V. Feminism and Difference: Sherrow O. Pinder; 15. The progress of colored women Mary Church Terrell; 16. What's in a name? Womanism, black feminism and beyond Patricia Hill Collins; 17. To be black, male, and 'feminist' - making womanist space for black men Gary L. Lemons; Part VI. Past, Present, and Future Issues: Erica Cooper; 18. Whiteness as property Cheryl I. Harris; 19. Whiteness, racism, and identity Barbara J. Fields; 20. The antidemocratic power of whiteness Kathleen Neal Cleaver; Glossary; Index.