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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... hand knowledge of them as a people, saw the eccentricity in what one may call the myth of "black exceptionalism." Park was in his eighties when Myrdal's research team was put together; he was not part of it. In fact, he died before the ...
... hand knowledge of them as a people, saw the eccentricity in what one may call the myth of "black exceptionalism." Park was in his eighties when Myrdal's research team was put together; he was not part of it. In fact, he died before the ...
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... hand, sees the black as inferior because of oppression: he is a damaged victim, who needs compassion and special protection from the demands one would normally make upon whites. But one should not be deluded for a single moment. The ...
... hand, sees the black as inferior because of oppression: he is a damaged victim, who needs compassion and special protection from the demands one would normally make upon whites. But one should not be deluded for a single moment. The ...
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... hands, and give him a chance, I think he will live. He will work as readily for himself as the white man. A great many ... hand of friendship when it was properly offered, by someone who was capable of looking at blacks not as "hobbled ...
... hands, and give him a chance, I think he will live. He will work as readily for himself as the white man. A great many ... hand of friendship when it was properly offered, by someone who was capable of looking at blacks not as "hobbled ...
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... hand, common sense continues to be throttled by doctrinairism, the racial situation will deteriorate. If on the other it revolts in order to find a political voice for itself, the situation will improve. When one talks about a "revolt ...
... hand, common sense continues to be throttled by doctrinairism, the racial situation will deteriorate. If on the other it revolts in order to find a political voice for itself, the situation will improve. When one talks about a "revolt ...
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... hand, those voices which clearly projected civic assimilation as the goal of Negro aspiration and which thought through what this aim would entail, and on the other hand, those nationalist or separatist voices which despaired of ever ...
... hand, those voices which clearly projected civic assimilation as the goal of Negro aspiration and which thought through what this aim would entail, and on the other hand, those nationalist or separatist voices which despaired of ever ...
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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