Selfless Revolutionaries
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Selfless Revolutionaries

Biko, Black Consciousness, Black Theology, and a Global Ethic of Solidarity and Resistance

  1. 330 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Selfless Revolutionaries

Biko, Black Consciousness, Black Theology, and a Global Ethic of Solidarity and Resistance

About this book

At this historic moment of global revolutions for social justice inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the philosophy of Black Consciousness has reemerged and gripped the imagination of a new generation, and of the merciless exposure by COVD-19 of the devastating, long-existent fault lines in our societies. Frantz Fanon, James Baldwin, and Steve Biko have been rediscovered and reclaimed. In this powerful book Black liberation theologian and activist Allan Boesak explores the deep connections between Black Consciousness, Black theology, and the struggles against racism, domination, and imperial brutality across the world today. In a careful, meticulous, and sometimes surprising rereading of Steve Biko's classic, I Write What I Like, Boesak reflects on the astounding relevance of Black Consciousness for the current academic debates on decolonization and coloniality, Africanity and imperialism, as well as for the struggles for freedom, justice, and human dignity in the streets. With passion, forthrightness, and inspiring eloquence Boesak brings his considerable political experience and deep theological insight to bear in his argument for a global ethic of solidarity and resistance in the ongoing struggles against empire. Beginning with Biko's "Where do we go from here?, " progressing to Baldwin's "the fire next time, " and ending with Martin Luther King Jr.'s "There is no stopping short of victory, " this is a sobering, hopeful, and inspiring book.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction: ā€œBiko Lives!ā€
  5. Chapter 1: ā€œSelfless Revolutionariesā€
  6. Chapter 2: Rebels at the Lectern and in the Pulpit
  7. Chapter 3: ā€œWho Will Rescue Me from This Body of Death?ā€
  8. Chapter 4: ā€œA Restless Presenceā€
  9. Chapter 5: Testing the Inescapable Network of Mutuality
  10. Chapter 6: In Search of Our Human Face
  11. Chapter 7: The Need for ā€œa Fighting Godā€
  12. Chapter 8: When Tomorrow Is Yesterday
  13. Bibliography