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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... oppression? This implicit sociological determinism, was, in fact, first articulated in a full-blown way not by a black but by Gunnar Myrdal. While he is probably today a forgotten figure, it may be of interest to dredge up the kernel of ...
... oppression? This implicit sociological determinism, was, in fact, first articulated in a full-blown way not by a black but by Gunnar Myrdal. While he is probably today a forgotten figure, it may be of interest to dredge up the kernel of ...
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... 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 racism of the right and the racism of the left ...
... 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 racism of the right and the racism of the left ...
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... oppressors as the objects of our love.”” In the main part of his treatise Delany rejects Liberia as a tool of slavery and argues the merits of Central and South America as emigration sites. The people there would receive the free ...
... oppressors as the objects of our love.”” In the main part of his treatise Delany rejects Liberia as a tool of slavery and argues the merits of Central and South America as emigration sites. The people there would receive the free ...
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... oppressors have nearly extinguished in our bosoms during the midnight chill of centuries that we have clanked the galling chains of slavery." In looking at the whole body of nationalist thought, one is struck by the grandeur of the ...
... oppressors have nearly extinguished in our bosoms during the midnight chill of centuries that we have clanked the galling chains of slavery." In looking at the whole body of nationalist thought, one is struck by the grandeur of the ...
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... oppression and persecution toward the colored people of this country than that which makes Africa, not America their home. It is that wolfish idea that elbows us off the sidewalk and denies us the rights of citizenship." As a "solution ...
... oppression and persecution toward the colored people of this country than that which makes Africa, not America their home. It is that wolfish idea that elbows us off the sidewalk and denies us the rights of citizenship." As a "solution ...
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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