Suchergebnisse

Politics of healing -- Awakening to black power consciousness -- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious radicalism -- Malcolm X and the spirit of humanistic activism -- Humanistic nationalism and the ethical turn -- SNCC's Palestinian problem -- The religion of black power.

Politics of healing -- Awakening to black power consciousness -- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious radicalism -- Malcolm X and the spirit of humanistic activism -- Humanistic nationalism and the ethical turn -- SNCC's Palestinian problem -- The religion of black power.

"Police killings of unarmed Black people have ignited a national and international response unlike any in decades. But differing from their civil rights-oriented predecessors, today's activists do not think that the institutions and values of liberal democracy can eradicate structural racism. They draw instead on a Black radical tradition that, Terrence L. Johnson argues, derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. We Testify with Our Lives traces Black religion's sustained influence from SNCC to the present, reconstructing a radical lived ethics of freedom and justice. Johnson demonstrates that Black Power fundamentally contests liberalism's abstract understanding of democracy, calling instead for new embodied frameworks to achieve human flourishing and dignity. Black bodies represent the primary form of resistance against violent and oppressive regimes of white supremacy and exploitation, and the individual and collective struggles of Black life bear witness to the dogged determination to cultivate beauty, rage, and joy. Considering the writings of Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, We Testify with Our Lives makes its case through a new narrative of the evolution of Black radicalism from the civil rights movement through the Movement for Black Lives. It forges new insights into Black Power's vital contributions to debates on ethics, transnational politics, democracy, political solidarity, and freedom-and its potent resources for the ongoing struggle to build democratic possibilities for all"--

Terrence L. Johnson argues that the Black radical tradition derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. We Testify with Our Lives traces Black religion's sustained influence from SNCC to the present, reconstructing a radical lived ethics of freedom and justice.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Spiritual Isolation -- Chapter 2 Haunting Echoes: Tragic Soul-Life and the Souls of Our Ancestors -- Chapter 3 Spirit of Freedom -- Chapter 4 The Dead, Death, and Dying -- Chapter 5 The Spirit of Religion: Soul-Beauty and Human Strivings -- Chapter 6 Ethics in a World of Bad Faith -- Conclusion Religion and the American Tragedy -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

This discussion essay examines Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) and his analysis of ethics and politics within Black political philosophy. Gordon's interdisciplinary book weaves together film, jazz, Judaism, and Egyptology (for instance) to interrogate the limits of political liberal concepts such as liberty, justice, and equality for analyzing and addressing anti-Black racism. A central concern facing Gordon is the degree to which bad faith is ignored or underexamined in political philosophy and public debates on social justice and freedom. Exploring how the racialization of the "Black" informs competing responses to anti-Blackness among Black and non-Black communities, this essay weighs the usefulness of Gordon's metareflective framing for understanding the tension and significance of religion and moral claims in developing theories of freedom within Black political philosophy.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Living Tradition -- PART I. THE ROOTS OF RIGHTS -- 2 Human Dignity: Experience and New Understandings -- 3 Shared Humanity after Genocide in Rwanda -- 4 Dignity in Solidarity: Rights as Relational -- PART II. THE RIGHT TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- 5 Religious Freedom, Morality, and Law: Vatican II and John Courtney Murray Today -- 6 Religion in Public: The Challenge of Freedom -- 7 Global Lessons for the United States -- PART III. ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND EQUALITY -- 8 Equality, Inequality, and Justice -- 9 Challenges of Globalization: Many Agents of Justice -- PART IV. THE RIGHTS OF REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS -- 10 Borders and the Rights of the Displaced -- 11 Welcoming Refugees and Migrants: The Need for Inclusion -- PART V. THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN -- 12 Universality and Women's Rights -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

The House is On Fire -- Finding Our Affinities : An Overview of "Blacks and Jews" Dialogue / by Jacques Berlinerblau -- Liberalism : A Tragic Encounter Between Blacks and (White) Jews / by Terrence Johnson -- Teaching "Blacks and Jews" in 2020 -- Interview with Professor Heschel -- Interview with Professor Chireau -- Talking to American Jews About Whiteness -- The Loop and Minister Farrakhan -- Israel / Palestine -- Afro Jews -- Outro