Description
| Product ID: | 9781509548279 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Black Lives |
| Title: | David Walker |
| Subtitle: | The Politics of Racial Egalitarianism |
| Authors: | Author: Sherrow O. Pinder |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted his life to fighting slavery and antiblack racism. In this book, Sherrow O. Pinder brings to light Walker’s lived experience, activism, and the synchronizing of his Christian principles and reformist radicalism to demonstrate why and how slavery must be eliminated. Walker’s call for blacks to regain their natural rights culminated in his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, an enormously influential work that is now considered a founding text of black studies. Today, given the escalation of antiblack racism manifested in the upholding of institutionalized violence by the state and the continued marginality of African-Americans, we cannot afford to forget Walker’s push for racial egalitarianism: it is more urgent than ever. |
| Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
| Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-05-24 |