Join us at the upcoming panel, hosted by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, celebrating the release of the new book African American Political Thought: A Collected History, edited by Melvin L. Rogers (Brown University) and Jack Turner (University of Washington).
Rogers and Turner and other contributors to the volume will present their work, followed by questions and answers and discussion.
This event is free and open to the public, streaming live and on-line via Zoom on February 23rd from 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm PST. Registration is required.
African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression. The collected essays consider such figures as Martin Delany, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, whose works are addressed by scholars such as Farah Jasmin Griffin, Robert Gooding-Williams, Michael Dawson, Nick Bromell, Neil Roberts, and Lawrie Balfour.
While African American political thought is inextricable from the historical movement of American political thought, this volume stresses the individuality of Black thinkers, the transnational and diasporic consciousness, and how individual speakers and writers draw on various traditions simultaneously to broaden our conception of African American political ideas. This landmark volume gives us the opportunity to tap into the myriad and nuanced political theories central to Black life. In doing so, African American Political Thought: A Collected History transforms how we understand the past and future of political thinking in the West.
Learn more about the book here.
