Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals

This pioneering new book surveys the political thought of a selection of influential black thinkers in provocative exploration of the black radical tradition as it has evolved in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Each chapter focuses on key figures or social movement including the slave Cugoano, the American anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, C.L.R. James, W.E.B Du Bois, former leader of the anti-colonial movement in Tanzania Julius Nyerere, Walter Rodney, the political philosophy of Rastafari, and the activist-musician Bob Marley. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of radical black thought and the development of an activist political tradition.

Anthony Bogues has been a broadcast journalist and a labor and political activist who previously taught at the University of the West Indies. He has been a visiting scholar at Howard University and Dartmouth College, and currently teaches in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University