African American political thought reimagined: A review of African American Political Thought: A Collected History
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/14748851211038727 |
| Published date | 01 April 2023 |
| Date | 01 April 2023 |
| Subject Matter | Reviews |
Review EJPT
African American
political thought
reimagined: A review
of African American
Political Thought: A
Collected History
Adom Getachew
University of Chicago, USA
Rogers M and Turner J (eds), African American Political Thought: A Collected History,
Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2021. 808 pp., $35 (paperback).
ISBN: 9780226725918.
Abstract
This review essay surveys the contributions of the new edited volume African American
Political Thought: A Collected Histor y. The thinker-based approach to the study of African
American political thought advanced in the volume highlights the ways in which thinkers
reformulate the central political questions of the intellectual tradition and constitute
the canon through the citation and invocation of earlier figures. It also draws attention
to the rhetorical, strategic, and tactical dimensions of their political thought. The
volume sets a new standard for study of African American political thought and
makes a persuasive case for the tradition’s important contributions to political
theory broadly. However, by tying its significance too closely to its interventions
within American political thought, the volume inadvertently minimizes the global res-
onances of African American political thought.
Corresponding author:
Adom Getachew, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago,5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL
Illinois 60615, USA.
Email: agetachew@uchicago.edu
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2023, Vol. 22(2) 354–362
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