'In its careful analysis of his radical and exemplary practice in word and deed, Black Minded doesn't give Malcolm X his rightful place in the canon of political philosophy so much as raise political philosophy to a height it never dared to reach by requiring and allowing it to ground with our brother.
Curry, author of 'The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood' Newton would say through a mind that is flesh, to not only feel the dawn of revolution but touch the horizon where it shall end' He introduces X as a Black man thinking through his body, or as Dr. Sawyer offers the world its first systematic reading of Malcolm X as a philosophically evolving political theorist. 'Epochal and paradigm-shifting are the only words that accurately describe the force of Michael Sawyer's Black Minded. Jonathan Scott Lee, co-editor of 'I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy Michael Sawyer helps us hear the depth, strength, and continuing relevance of Malcolm's call for a world-wide Black revolution' 'Black Minded makes a compelling case for Malcolm X as a political philosopher of the first rank. Black Minded presents us with a maturing Malcolm who is thinking in motion, and who has strong resonance for Black People today as we continue to struggle with defining who we are and how we shall fight'įlores Forbes author of 'Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration' Sawyer's book on Malcolm is comparable to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth and The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois. Melina Abdullah, professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University and co-founder of Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles Essential reading during the current Black activist renaissance' Movements are driven by thought as well as action. 'Brilliantly contends that meaningful Black activism is grounded in an underlying philosophy. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination' 'Incisive, provocative, and essential, Black Minded makes a compelling case for Malcolm X's original contribution to a radical humanism that stands outside European traditions, against the dehumanization of the Black body, and for genuine global revolution' Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X (Black Critique)
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