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Acknowledgments
An Introduction
Part I. Situating Oneself in the Political World
Chapter 1. My Judgment Makes Me Political: David Walker’s Transformative Appeal
Chapter 2. Living an Antislavery Life: Walker on the Demandingness of Freedom
Chapter 3. Being a Slave of the Community: Race, Domination, and Republicanism
Part II. A Society That Never Was but May Yet Be
Chapter 4. The People’s Two Bodies
Chapter 5. Lynching and the Horrific: From Ida B. Wells to Billie Holiday
Chapter 6. Propaganda and Rhetoric: On W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Criteria of Negro Art”
Chapter 7. Calling the People to a Higher Vision: On The Souls of Black Folk
Conclusion. James Baldwin’s Gift
Notes
Index

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A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy

Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject America’s democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition—a tradition that is urgently needed today.

The book reexamines how figures as diverse as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Billie Holiday, and James Baldwin thought about the politics, people, character, and culture of a society that so often dominated them. Sharing a light of faith darkened but not extinguished by the tragic legacy of slavery, they resisted the conclusion that America would always be committed to white supremacy. They believed that democracy is always in the process of becoming and that they could use it to reimagine society. But they also saw that achieving racial justice wouldn’t absolve us of the darkest features of our shared past, and that democracy must be measured by how skillfully we confront a history that will forever remain with us.

An ambitious account of the profound ways African Americans have reimagined democracy, The Darkened Light of Faith offers invaluable lessons about how to grapple with racial injustice and make democracy work.