Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity Book

Thisseminal work is a completely unique look at the history of modernity, racism, religion, & marxism through the Afro-American experience. While the book covers a lot of ground, a few of the ideas he develop really stand out.
- West presents a unique genealogy of American racism tying it's develop directly to historical contingencies in the history of the Enlightment. He builds his case for a revolutionary black Christianity by establishing the roots of Modern European modernity, inherited into hegemonic American culture, as inextricably linked to white supremacy and racism (Chapter 2)
- He also does an excellent job of presenting the various strands of marxist thought to mainstream using American mainstream religions as analogies. Falwell's mega churches are to Leninism / Stalism as liberation theology is to Socialist Councilism. Worth reading the last chapter to familiarize this framework (Chapter 5)
- Impressively, West calls his shot 40 years ago by anticipating the rise of an intersectional people's movement towards socialism comprised of different marginalized elements, including ecologists, black marxists, feminists, anti-imperialists / indigenous movements, labor, etc. This argument seems more descriptive than speculative today.