Futures of Black Radicalism

Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key scholarly voices from a wide array of disciplines recalls the powerful tradition of Black radicalism as it developed in the 19th and 20th centuries while defining new directions for Black radical thought. 

In a time when activists in Ferguson, Palestine, Baltimore, and Hong Kong immediately make connections between their movements, this book makes clear that new Black radical politics are thoroughly internationalist, and redraws connections between Black resistance and anti-capitalism. Featuring the key voices in the new intellectual wave of Black radical thinking, including eminent scholars like Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, George Lipsitz and Fred Moten, as well as brilliant young voices, this collection outlines one of the most vibrant areas of thought today.

Gaye Theresa Johnson is Associate Professor of Black and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA and author of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles. 

Alex Lubin is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary and Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954.