Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle

Anthony Sean Neal is Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Humanities Professor and faculty fellow in the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University.

• Chapter 1: Struggling for Freedom Between Death (slavery) and LifeChapter 2: The New Negro’s NegritudeChapter 3: From Harlem to Paris (And Back)Chapter 4: From Montgomery to West AfricaChapter 5: From Freedom to Fragmentation Through Liberalism

With a foreword by the eminent Leonard Harris, Neal’s Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle is a dense investigation of the Black intellectual history and social activism of the modern era in the US. Neal gracefully brings together both passion and clarity, leading the reader to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the struggle for freedom and equality within a society that fails to live up to those ideals. Neal’s historical narrative will be useful for students and scholars in African American studies, American studies, history, philosophy, or for any research project that engages civil rights, oppression, freedom, Blackness, and race more generally. Recommended. General readers through faculty.