Ella Baker and the challenge of black rule

Contemporary Political Theory 19 (4):551-572 (2020)
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What is African American Politics? What form should it take? How does it conceptualize white supremacy? In In the Shadow of Du Bois, Robert Gooding-Williams uses the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and Fredrick Douglass to provide answers to these questions. While the choices of Douglass and Du Bois make a great deal of sense, they reproduce the tendency of confining political theory to literature – a move that bounds the genre in problematic ways. In this article, I in effect attempt to “unbound” the genre by considering Ella Baker, a civil rights era political organizer.

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The souls of Black folk.W. E. B. Du Bois - 2007 - Oxford University Press.
Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism.Robert Gooding-Williams - 2001 - Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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