Description - Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South by Preston King
This book contains a succession of philosophical biographies. The subjects, located in the period 1850-2000, and even if later exiled, were chosen by virtue of birth and life in the American South on the assumption of the distinctiveness of Southern conditions. The 'foundational' figures in Black Southern social and political thought are represented as Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall adn Martin King are viewed as 'indispensable', though not 'foundational'. The remaining figures - Howard Thurman, Richard Wright, Fred Gray and Barbara Jordan - are important in various ways and are seen as 'illustrative'. From the perspective of liberation, the two high points in the African-American Odyssey are marked by Emancipation in the nineteenth century and Desegregation in the twentieth. Douglass bestriding the first, King and Marshall the second. Philosophies are not uniformly responsive to setting: here, the thread of resistance runs through most (but not Washington); and the thread of non-violence, with greater or less force, also runs through most (but not Wright).
This volume assumes a distinction between (a) an earlier period when Afro-America was more cohesive and collectively committed to self-improvement despite the odds, and (b) the contemporary period, beyond desegregation, marked by rates never previously rivaled of suicide, joblessness, imprisonment, despair and alienation, especially among black poor. The life stories and philosophies presented here are adjuncts to that earlier period; a volume properly reflecting the second is still to be rolled into place. This book is a Special Issue of the "Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy."
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