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
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual.
A current professor at Union Theological Seminary, he has also
taught at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The recipient of more than
twenty honorary degrees, he has written many important books,
including Race Matters and Democracy Matters. He appears frequently
on Real Time with Bill Maher, The Colbert Report, Democracy Now,
CNN, C-SPAN, and other national and international media. He lives
in New York City.
Christa Buschendorf is a professor and the chair of American
Studies at Goethe-Universit t Frankfurt am Main. She has published
on the transatlantic history of ideas and on African American
literature.
“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
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