Abstract

There has been posited the belief that there is an important and necessary link between unified consciousness and moral obligation for the betterment of oppressed groups within a society. The purpose of this project is to look into the nature of this proposed link and determine what implications it has for the individual within the context of a sustained program of liberation. I will pursue this purpose by looking at selected works of three African-American intellectuals and philosophers. The three authors I have chosen are David Walker, W. E. B. DuBois, and Alain Leroy Locke. I will be examining particularly the role played by the concept of a unified racial consciousness and whether the accounts of the authors are defensible