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Black Prophetic Fire
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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

About the Author

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.

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“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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