Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Inscribing Liberation: Contexts and Conditions of Black Radicalism

1  Voices of Black Protest

Contours of Anticolonialism and Black Liberation

2  Spokespersons and Advocates

The Contested Intellectual Life of African Independence

3  Radical Commitments

The Promise of Black Women’s Activism

4  Rebellion or Revolution

The Challenge of Black Radicalism

5  New Breeds, Old Dreams

Liberator and Black Radical Aesthetics

Epilogue

Refusing to Go Quietly

Notes

Bibliography

Index