African-American Social and Political Thought: 1850-1920Howard Brotz Transaction Publishers, 2011 M12 31 - 641 páginas In bringing together the most characteristic and serious writings by black scholars, authors, journalists, and educators from the years that preceded the modem civil rights movement, African-American Social and Political Thought provides a comprehensive guide to the range and diversity of black thought. The volume offers a deep history of how the terms of contemporary debate over the future of black Americans were formed. The writings assembled here reveal a tension and a thread between two essential poles of thought. These include those voices that clearly projected civic assimilation as the goal of black aspiration, and those who described how this aim would be achieved, as well as nationalist or separatist voices that despaired of ever having a dignified future in a biracial society. These two positions reflect the most fundamental questions faced by any minority group. In his forceful and courageous introduction to this new edition, Howard Brotz relates the thoughts and reflections of these black thinkers to the social and political situation of blacks in America today and argues against the political orthodoxy and sociological determinism that perpetuates the image of the black as a perennial and passive victim. In the scope and quality of its contents, African-American Social and Political Thought is a unique, invaluable source book for cultural historians, sociologists, and students of black history. |
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... Bois. The question was whether the elevation of the Negro would take place through the creation of a distinguished elite or whether it required general change in the people as a whole. Douglass opted for the latter alternative with ...
... Bois. The question was whether the elevation of the Negro would take place through the creation of a distinguished elite or whether it required general change in the people as a whole. Douglass opted for the latter alternative with ...
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... Bois The two most important successors of Booker T. Washington were W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey; and in the thinking of both there is evidence of a partial break with the assimilationist policy of Washington. In the case of Du ...
... Bois The two most important successors of Booker T. Washington were W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey; and in the thinking of both there is evidence of a partial break with the assimilationist policy of Washington. In the case of Du ...
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... Bois. To begin with, Du Bois was an academic man who would understandably have a professional interest in doctrines or theories. In many ways he was 64 See page 229. 65 Booker T. Washington, The Future of the American Negro (Boston ...
... Bois. To begin with, Du Bois was an academic man who would understandably have a professional interest in doctrines or theories. In many ways he was 64 See page 229. 65 Booker T. Washington, The Future of the American Negro (Boston ...
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... Bois, for example, a primary cause of slavery or of disfranchisement was a doctrine or an "ism" postulating the inferiority of the Negro." Hence, to change the power pattern one had to change the doctrine by disseminating a counter ...
... Bois, for example, a primary cause of slavery or of disfranchisement was a doctrine or an "ism" postulating the inferiority of the Negro." Hence, to change the power pattern one had to change the doctrine by disseminating a counter ...
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... Bois the emphasis shifted not only to particularity but to originality. According to Du Bois, not unlike the contemporary proponents of Negritude, the problem was that Negroes, in order to validate themselves as a civilized race, had to ...
... Bois the emphasis shifted not only to particularity but to originality. According to Du Bois, not unlike the contemporary proponents of Negritude, the problem was that Negroes, in order to validate themselves as a civilized race, had to ...
Contenido
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Martin R Delany | 37 |
Edward W Blyden | 112 |
James T Holly | 140 |
Alexander Crummell | 171 |
African Civilization Society | 191 |
Henry Highland Garnet | 199 |
Frederick Douglass | 203 |
T Thomas Fortune | 332 |
Booker T Washington | 351 |
Archibald H Grimke | 464 |
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois | 483 |
Marcus Garvey | 553 |
Sources and Acknowledgments | 577 |
Index | 581 |
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