The City on the Hill From Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics

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Abernathy, Ralph, 157 Adam and Eve, 22 Adams, Henry, 127 Adorno, Theodore, 189 affluence, 169 African American prophetic political critique: black women, 179–189; vs. Bogue’s “redemptive prophetic” criticism, 202n56; of colonial America, 18–19; decline of, 169–170, 178–179, 192; faith and desire in, 175–176; Jackson’s Democratic National Convention speech, 191; King, 8; origins of, 1; and political evil, 19; as political philosophy, 203n60; political theorists’ neglect of, 2; and sacrifice, 177, 188–189; and slavery, 18–19; and violence , 54–56, 145, 165–167, 172, 220n10, 223n47; West, 228n57. See also Baldwin , James; Douglass, Frederick; Du Bois, W.E.B.; Walker, David African Americans: Baldwin on paradox of, 140; blackness, 137–141; churches, 122–123, 125, 204n11; and City on the Hill concept, 133–135; colleges, 119–120, 126; dignity of, 106; Du Bois on leaders, 108–111; enmity with whites, 43, 51–54, 135–136, 206n65; intellectual underdevelopment of, 31–33, 38, 42–43, 50–54; messianism, 28–29; political institutions of, 61; and politics, 172–173; repatriation to Africa, 47–50; sexism of, 55–56, 186–187. See also women African Methodist Episcopal Church, 48 Afro-modernity, 207n81 Agamben, Giorgio, 141 Allen, Richard, 48, 202n54 America, 14–15, 34–36 American Antislavery Society, 62 American Colonization Society, 47 American exceptionalism. See City on the Hill concept American Indians, 14–15, 167 American Prophecy (Shulman), 201n49, 202n56 Ancient Judaism (Weber), 173–174 Anderson, Benedict, 201n44 Anthony, Captain, 82–83 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (Walker), 26–56, 177; audience addressed by, 27–28; economics of slavery, 34–35, 45–46; ignorance of African Americans, 31–33, 38, 42–43, 50–54; as jeremiad, 29, 44–45; racial enmity, 43, 51–53, 206n65; and religion, 28–29, 33–36, 43–47; as structural mirror of U.S. Constitution, 29–30. See also Walker, David Arendt, Hannah, 14, 73, 136–137, 139, 152, 159–161 Aristotle: on concept of “city,” 5; on constitutions , 30; definition of tragedy, 139; on habitual action, 73; on invention of domestic terrors, 135; on slavery, 37, 59, 81 artist/lover figure, 142–148, 154, 222n41. See also Baldwin, James Index 230 index Atalanta, myth of, 93–95 Athens, ancient, 5 Atlanta, Georgia, 94–95, 121, 125–126 Atlanta Exposition, 101 Atlanta University, 126 Augustine, 9–10, 21–22, 95, 161, 209n32 Auld, Sophia, 77–80, 211n62 authoritarianism, 145 authority, 160–161, 164 autobiographies, inventiveness of, 148, 224n55 avarice, 34–35, 45–46 Avedon, Richard, 143 Baldwin, James, 128–168; on authority, 160–161, 164, 225n83; and Avedon, 143; on blacks as the “other,” 136, 150–151; and City on the Hill concept, 129–135, 167–168, 220nn7–8, 223n42; on evil, 151–152, 155, 223n44; and homosexuality, 225n78; jeremiad, 132; on love, 130, 140, 149–150, 153–154, 156–158, 160–162, 166–168, 222n40; on lover/artist figure, 142–148, 154, 222n41; and Nation of Islam, 158–159, 161, 163–165, 167, 225–226nn83–84; on Native Son (Wright), 138–142; on paradox of African Americans, 140; as political theorist, 220n6, 223n46; on power, 225n79; and prophetic political critique, 130, 171; on racialization, 136–138, 151; on religion, 133–135, 162–163, 223n44; on sentimentality , 136–137, 139; on violence, 145, 159–160, 165–167, 220n10, 223n47; and Walker, 130–132, 148, 222n41; on white supremacy, 138; on will to power, 165–167; and Winthrop, 129 Baldwin, James, works of: “The Creative Process ,” 143, 154; “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind,” 149, 156–158; The Fire Next Time, 128–129, 132–133, 142– 144, 146, 148–151, 153–158, 165–167, 172, 222n41; Go Tell It on the Mountain, 133–135, 164–165; “Many Thousands Gone,” 136– 138, 150–152; “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” 149–156; “Nobody Knows My Name,” 143; No Name in the Street, 143, 156–158, 168; “Notes of a Native Son,” 143, 153, 157, 161; Nothing Personal , 143 Balfour, Katharine Lawrence, 220n6 Beloved (Morrison), 179–181, 188 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 44 Berlin, Isaiah, 52 Black Heretics, Black Prophets (Bogues), 202n56 black-modern, 207n81 blackness, 137–141 Black Panthers, 223n47 blacks. See African Americans The Body in Pain (Scarry), 72 Bogues, Anthony, 202n56 Buber, Martin, 178, 202n53, 202n56 Calvary, 149 capitalism. See commercialism; economics; property care, ethic of, 4 Carthage, 40, 50 charisma, 174 Christianity...