The presidency of Donald J. Trump unveiled the calamity of white America’s determination to maintain so-called societal order during a period of landmark racial upheaval. From the death of George P. Floyd, Jr. and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, to the 2021 winter insurrection and the post-2020 restrictive presidential election voting measures led by conservatives, we see an ongoing demonstration of white America’s seemingly intractable racist traditions and its unfulfilled commitment to equality.
The Fight for Black Liberation presents a political critique of the current state of Black America in the post-Trump era. Hoston argues that amid continued structural, institutional, and systemic barriers, Black people in America must establish political independence and demand a Black political agenda to chart a path toward a Black Liberation movement. Operating under the premise that what has politically hindered the process of reaching a Black Liberation movement has been Black Americans’ assimilative loyalty to the false constructs of partisanship and ideology, this book encourages Black eligible voters, Black Democrats, Black Republicans, and those of other political parties and affiliations to abstain from the two-party system and become an independent voting bloc willing to give the Black vote to a chosen party in a free partisan market that best represents Black interests.
About the Author
William T. Hoston is an award-winning scholar and author who hails from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is Full Professor of political science at Prairie View A&M University. Dr. Hoston holds a PhD (with distinction) from the University of New Orleans and has research interests in the areas of minority voting behavior, the political behavior of Black politicians, race and minority group behavior, Black masculinity, sexualities and gender, race and crime, and theories and dynamics of racism and oppression. Dr. Hoston’s work traverses multiple genres, including editorials, essays, fiction, and poetry. He is the author or editor of twenty-plus books, most recently: The Crucial Conversation: Educating Through an Anti-Racist Lens (Kendall Hunt, 2022) and Contemporary Debates in Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring the Lives of Black and Brown Americans (Kendall Hunt, 2021). His book Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston (Peter Lang, 2018), which examined the deaths of Black trans women, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies in 2019.