Back to the future of black struggle in theory and practice

In an era in which black Americans can be killed by white Americans for simply playing loud music or walking around one's own apartment, it is little wonder that a movement has taken hold demanding that black lives do, in fact, matter.It is also little wonder that scholars would return to the rich history of black American struggle against white oppression to provide resources for the contemporary existential battle.Contributing to this effort are two recent texts, Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance, by Alex Zamalin, and Black Natural Law by Vincent W. Lloyd.In these two similarly structured books, both authors provide us with a timely discussion of a wide range of black thinkers who teach us about the importance of marrying theory with practice.Ultimately, Zamalin and Lloyd make a significant contribution to contemporary political theory by demonstrating the importance of taking black thinkers seriously and highlighting the ways in which they exceed and enhance the arbitrarily defined boundaries of American political thought and natural law theory, respectively

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