Life Out of Context

Life Out of Context begins as a powerful brooding and humorously honest examination of Mosleys own sense of cultural dislocation as an African American writer. But due to a series of serendipitous events the screening of a documentary about Africa an encounter with Harry Belafonte and Hugh Masakela Mosley rather like the protagonist in one of his mystery novels has a series of epiphanies on the role of a black intellectual in America. He asks: What can we do to fight injustice poverty exploitation and racism? What is globalization doing to us? Through these late night meditations Mosley attempts to transcend his earlier feelings of living a "life out of context" and seeks instead to find a political context. He ends with a call to arms proposing that African Americans have to break their historic ties with the Democrat Party and form a party of their own