The Resource Black natural law, Vincent W. Lloyd
Black natural law, Vincent W. Lloyd
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- Summary
- "Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking the left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Lloyd charges that many Black leaders today embrace secular, white modes of political engagement, abandoning the deep connections between religious, philosophical, and political ideas that once animated Black politics. By telling the stories of Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lloyd shows how appeals to a higher law-- God's law--have long fueled Black political engagement. Such appeals do not seek to implement divine directives on earth; rather, they pose a challenge to the wisdom of the world, mobilizing communities for collective action. Black natural law is deeply democratic: while charismatic leaders may catalyze group reflection and mobilization, all people are capable of discerning the higher law using their human capacities for reason and emotion. At a time when continuing racial injustice poses a deep moral challenge, Lloyd argues, the most powerful intellectual resources in the struggle for justice have been abandoned. Black Natural Law recovers a rich tradition, and it examines just how this tradition was forgotten. A Black intellectual class emerged that was disconnected from social movement organizing and beholden to white interests. Appeals to higher law became politically impotent: either overly rational or overly sentimental. Recovering the Black natural law tradition provides a powerful resource for confronting police violence, mass incarceration, and all of today's stark racial inequities. Black Natural Law will change the way we understand natural law, a topic central to the Western ethical and political tradition. While it draws particularly on African American resources, the book speaks to all who seek a politics animated by justice"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 180 pages
- Contents
-
- On Frederick Douglass
- On Anna Julia Cooper
- On W.E.B. Du Bois
- On Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Decline and detritus
- Conclusion : Against pessimism
- Afterword : Beyond secularism and multiculturalism
- Isbn
- 9780199362189
- Label
- Black natural law
- Title
- Black natural law
- Statement of responsibility
- Vincent W. Lloyd
- Subject
-
- African Americans -- Religion | History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | General
- Political theology and race -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | African American Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
- African Americans -- Politics and government | Philosophy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking the left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Lloyd charges that many Black leaders today embrace secular, white modes of political engagement, abandoning the deep connections between religious, philosophical, and political ideas that once animated Black politics. By telling the stories of Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lloyd shows how appeals to a higher law-- God's law--have long fueled Black political engagement. Such appeals do not seek to implement divine directives on earth; rather, they pose a challenge to the wisdom of the world, mobilizing communities for collective action. Black natural law is deeply democratic: while charismatic leaders may catalyze group reflection and mobilization, all people are capable of discerning the higher law using their human capacities for reason and emotion. At a time when continuing racial injustice poses a deep moral challenge, Lloyd argues, the most powerful intellectual resources in the struggle for justice have been abandoned. Black Natural Law recovers a rich tradition, and it examines just how this tradition was forgotten. A Black intellectual class emerged that was disconnected from social movement organizing and beholden to white interests. Appeals to higher law became politically impotent: either overly rational or overly sentimental. Recovering the Black natural law tradition provides a powerful resource for confronting police violence, mass incarceration, and all of today's stark racial inequities. Black Natural Law will change the way we understand natural law, a topic central to the Western ethical and political tradition. While it draws particularly on African American resources, the book speaks to all who seek a politics animated by justice"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1982-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lloyd, Vincent W.
- Dewey number
- 323.1196/073
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.6
- LC item number
- .L63 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Political theology and race
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Label
- Black natural law, Vincent W. Lloyd
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- On Frederick Douglass -- On Anna Julia Cooper -- On W.E.B. Du Bois -- On Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Decline and detritus -- Conclusion : Against pessimism -- Afterword : Beyond secularism and multiculturalism
- Control code
- 938990084
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xv, 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199362189
- Lccn
- 2015044627
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)938990084
- Label
- Black natural law, Vincent W. Lloyd
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- On Frederick Douglass -- On Anna Julia Cooper -- On W.E.B. Du Bois -- On Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Decline and detritus -- Conclusion : Against pessimism -- Afterword : Beyond secularism and multiculturalism
- Control code
- 938990084
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xv, 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199362189
- Lccn
- 2015044627
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)938990084
Subject
- African Americans -- Politics and government | Philosophy
- African Americans -- Religion | History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | General
- Political theology and race -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | African American Studies
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