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Why We Can’t Wait
A book in which Martin Luther King Jr. explains the events of 1963, the year of the Birmingham campaign and the March on Washington, and argues that Black…
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I Write What I Like
A posthumous collection of writings by the South African leader of the Black Consciousness movement, edited by his friend Father Aelred Stubbs and published after Biko's death in…
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Four Essays on Liberty
A collection of four essays from the 1950s, published together in 1969 with a long new introduction answering critics. 'Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century' surveys the ideologies…
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A Voice from the South
A collection of eight essays and speeches by a teacher at the M Street High School in Washington, D.C., published in 1892 with the subtitle By a Black…
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The Hatata Inquiries
Two short philosophical texts in Ge'ez from seventeenth-century Ethiopia. Ḥatäta means inquiry. In the first, Zera Yacob tells how religious persecution under the emperor Susenyos forced him to…
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Rationalism in Politics
A collection of essays by the English political philosopher Michael Oakeshott, first published in 1962 and expanded in 1991. The title essay attacks rationalism in politics: the belief…
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The New Negro
An anthology of essays, fiction, poetry, drama and visual art, edited by the Howard University philosopher Alain Locke and expanded from a 1925 special issue of the magazine…
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African Philosophy through Ubuntu
A systematic study by a South African philosopher who presents ubuntu as the root of African philosophy among Bantu-speaking peoples. Ramose begins by defending the existence of African…
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Natural Right and History
A study, based on Strauss's Walgreen Lectures of 1949, of whether there is a natural standard of right by which political societies can be judged. Strauss opens with…
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Discourse on Colonialism
A short polemical essay by the Martinican poet and politician, one of the founders of Négritude, first published in 1950 and revised in 1955. It opens by declaring…
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