cam a22 4500 551392657 CHVBK 20201114035110.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 160222s2016 nyu s 000 0deng d 2015044627 978-0-19-936218-9 (hardback) 978-0-19-936219-6 (Ebook) 978-0-19-061058-6 (Ebook) 978-0-19-061059-3 (Online Component) (SERSOL)ssj0001662338 (WaSeSS)ssj0001662338 DLC eng DLC DLC WaSeSS rda E185.6 .L63 2016 323.1196/073 23 POL035000 SOC001000 SOC056000 bisacsh Lloyd Vincent W. 1982- author Black natural law Vincent W. Lloyd New York, NY Oxford University Press [2016] 1 online resource (xv, 180 pages) text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index. Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: On Frederick Douglass -- Chapter 2: On Anna Julia Cooper -- Chapter 3: On W. E. B. Du Bois -- Chapter 4: On Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Chapter 5: Decline and Detritus -- Conclusion: Against Pessimism -- Afterword: Beyond Secularism and Multiculturalism. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "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"-- African Americans Politics and government Philosophy African Americans Religion History Political theology and race United States POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) bisacsh https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199362189.001.0001/acprof-9780199362189 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB B405 B405 405VT IDSBB 100 1- Lloyd Vincent W. 1982- author IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199362189.001.0001/acprof-9780199362189 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 482747404