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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... degradation to establish a black republic with, paradoxically, the same fundamental political principles as those of the United States. Against that opinion, Douglass had to make the case that his own agitation in behalf of civic ...
... degradation to establish a black republic with, paradoxically, the same fundamental political principles as those of the United States. Against that opinion, Douglass had to make the case that his own agitation in behalf of civic ...
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... degraded condition is due to God's displeasure toward them for their unfaithfulness to Him rather than to the fact that they are consumers and not producers. Their religion thus leads them to expect Him to do for them what it is ...
... degraded condition is due to God's displeasure toward them for their unfaithfulness to Him rather than to the fact that they are consumers and not producers. Their religion thus leads them to expect Him to do for them what it is ...
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... degradation, but rather the completion of human nature itself. "Nationality is an ordinance of Nature. The heart of every true Negro yearns after a distinct and separate nationality.” Related to this was his view that in each separate ...
... degradation, but rather the completion of human nature itself. "Nationality is an ordinance of Nature. The heart of every true Negro yearns after a distinct and separate nationality.” Related to this was his view that in each separate ...
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... degraded. Man may indeed pity us, but they cannot respect us. We do not mean that we can become entirely independent of all men; that would be absurd and impossible, in the social state. But we mean that we must become equally ...
... degraded. Man may indeed pity us, but they cannot respect us. We do not mean that we can become entirely independent of all men; that would be absurd and impossible, in the social state. But we mean that we must become equally ...
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... degradation, one in popular estimation. As one rises, all must rise, and as one falls, all must fall36 This answer was not only the key to his common-sensical stand on the above questions. It was also the key to his whole ...
... degradation, one in popular estimation. As one rises, all must rise, and as one falls, all must fall36 This answer was not only the key to his common-sensical stand on the above questions. It was also the key to his whole ...
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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