Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African
American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking left
(including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including
Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Vincent
William Lloyd charges that many Black leaders today embrace
secular, white modes of political engagement, abandoning the deep
connections between religious, philosophical, and political ideas
that once animated Black politics. By telling the stories of
Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Martin
Luther King, Jr., Lloyd shows how appeals to a higher law, or God's
law, have long fueled Black political engagement. Such appeals do
not seek to implement divine directives on earth; rather, they pose
a challenge to the wisdom of the world, and they mobilize
communities for collective action. Black natural law is deeply
democratic: while charismatic leaders may provide the occasion for
reflection and mobilization, all are capable of discerning the
higher law using our human capacities for reason and emotion. At a
time when continuing racial injustice poses a deep moral challenge,
the most powerful intellectual resources in the struggle for
justice have been abandoned. Black Natural Law recovers a rich
tradition, and it examines just how this tradition was forgotten. A
Black intellectual class emerged that was disconnected from social
movement organizing and beholden to white interests. Appeals to
higher law became politically impotent: overly rational or overly
sentimental. Recovering the Black natural law tradition provides a
powerful resource for confronting police violence, mass
incarceration, and today's gross racial inequities. Black Natural
Law will change the way we understand natural law, a topic central
to the Western ethical and political tradition. While drawing
particularly on African American resources, Black Natural Law
speaks to all who seek politics animated by justice.
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