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This book, by influential political theorist Drucilla Cornell, demands that we rethink the class struggle and the battle against racialized capitalism, which in turn makes us reconceptualize the ideas of revolution, liberation and rebellion themselves, by focusing on the great revolutionary theorist CLR James.

In Defending Ideals Cornell looks at the crisis on the left and asks how we can turn back toward more left wing ideals.

This book defies easy categorization but will be one of the most original, thoughtful, and genuinely interesting books published next year. Before the author's mother died, she asked her daughter, Drucilla, to write a book 'that would bear witness to the dignity of her death [and one that] her bridge class would be able to understand.' As if that wasn't difficult enough, Drucilla's mother, who had a degenerative disease, decided to end her life by ingesting a lethal cocktail of drugs. Drucilla was in the unenviable position of bearing witness to her mother's act. Unsentimental yet poignant, candid and courageous, this is the book that Drucilla promised her mother she'd write. Unlike her earlier academically-oriented books, Between Women and Generations is an intensely personal narrative which interweaves the personal and political decisions Drucilla's made throughout her life. She uses the personal as a springboard to talk about larger philosophical issues such as how one achieves dignity in life and in death, and the nature of intergenerational relationships between women. Drucilla speaks candidly of her relationship with her mother, about her decision to adopt a non-Western child, and about her commitment to UNITY, a cooperative of house cleaners in Long Island, New York. This book will resonate strongly with Western women

Negritude is one of the most controversial and misunderstood movements, starting
with Jean-Paul Sartre's misguided discussion of the significance of Negritude in
Black Orpheus. In this article, I will argue that Negritude
is not opposed in any way to a non-racialized socialism. Indeed, as the
contemporary philosopher Lewis Gordon has powerfully argued, Negritude and other
forms of Black consciousness are absolutely crucial to the overcoming of racism
and colonization and to attempt to have ideals of economic transformation that
do not fall back into the worst forms of racism. At the heart of this debate
about the significance of Negritude—all the poets were socialists—is the
question of whether or not there is African philosophy and whether African
philosophy has made a significant contribution to rethinking socialism as
ethical as well as economic. This article strongly argues that African
philosophy demands that we shift our understanding of how and why socialism is
an ethical aspiration and is rooted in an ontology of rhythmic bodies.

In this essay, Cornell first invokes the concept of 'imaginary domain' to challenge the legal legitimacy of heterosexism in any form. She then claims that the imposition of heterosexism on the imaginary is a trauma whose severity can be grasped only with the help of psychoanalysis. Second, she argues that we cannot understand or undermine the power of heterosexist ideas without an alternative ethic of love. In beginning to think about a love that would necessarily pit itself against heterosexism, Cornell draws on Jacques Derrida's metaphor of the lovance.