Black prophetic fire
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Author
Contributions
- Buschendorf, Christa - Contributor
Publication
2014 - Beacon Press, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
63,250 words, Guess
Page Count
253 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27166511M
- ISBN-139780807003527
- ISBN-100807003522
- OCLC Control Number976545541
- OCLC Control Number868199580
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Numberblackpropheticfi0000west
- Library of Congress Control Number2014010359
Classifications
- DDC920.009296073
- LCCE185.96 .W47 2014
Alternate Titles
- Cornel West black prophetic fire
Description
"Celebrated intellectual and activist Cornel West offers an unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida Wells-Barnett. West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. He not only rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines. West finds that Douglass and, to some extent, Du Bois fall short of the high standards he holds them to, while King has been sanitized and even 'Santaclausified,' rendering him less radical. By providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known figures, West takes an important step in rekindling the Black prophetic fire so essential in the age of Obama"--
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