Series: Black Critique

This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition - Cornel West. Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals generated different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom. Joshua Myers explores the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logics of...

Anarchism and the Black Revolution is described as a powerful – even startling – book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so. This foundational classic, written by a key figure of the Civil Rights...

The first complete account of the life and work of Wilfred Adolphus Domingo (1889-1968), one of the most significant West Indian anti-colonialists of the twentieth century. When W. A. Domingo died in 1968, the Jamaican ex-premier Norman Manley wrote that 'no one in the world made greater sacrifices or suffered more for the cause he believed in—the cause of freedom...

While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and '70s in Europe, the United States, and Latin America have been the subject of abundant literature, similar movements that emerged in Africa have received comparatively very little attention. This book sheds new light on these political movements. Africa's left were extremely active in these years. With pro-Soviet movements, Maoism, Trotskyism, Guevarism,...