Rogers and Turner, "Black Individualism, Black Communalism, and Conceptual Adequacy"

A response to Chike Jeffers's and Bernard Boxill's critical engagements with African American Political Thought: A Collected History. We elaborate two themes that they highlight: in the case of Jeffers, the relationship between black individualism and black communalism; in the case of Boxill, the question of what makes a concept theoretically successful.