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African-American philosophy : selected readings / [edited by] Tommy L. Lott.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life--Sources.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--Sources.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--Sources.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- African American philosophy.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- African American philosophy--History--Sources.
- United States--Race relations--Sources.
- Race relations.
- United States--Intellectual life--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 516 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2002.
- Summary:
- "African-American Philosophy" is a topically organized collection of classical and contemporary articles on a wide range of social and political issues. Ideal for introductory courses that deal with African-American thought, this text includes an introduction along with a list of further readings after each section and a bibliography of historical and recent work in the field. Critically challenging essays are organized under sections on Antebellum Critical Thought, Emigrationist and Diaspora Thought, Assimilation and Social Uplift, Contemporary Black Feminist Thought, Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience, Marxism and Social Progress, Rebellion and Radical Thought, Social Activism Reconsidered, Black Women Writers on Rape, and Alienation and Self-Respect. The readings in this anthology represent substantial extracts, and in some cases complete works, by important nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and political thinkers.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Antebellum Critical Thought 1
- Resistance and Slavery / Howard McGary 3
- Speech at the First General Colored Association: Boston, 1828 / David Walker 15
- An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall: Boston, February 27, 1833 / Maria W. Stewart 18
- An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet 22
- Chapter 2 Emigration and Diaspora Though 28
- A Plea for Emigration, or Notes of Canada West / Mary Ann Shadd Carey 31
- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States / Martin R. Delany 45
- The Call of Providence to the Descendants of Africa in America / Edward W. Blyden 66
- The African Problem and the Method of Its Solution / Edward W. Blyden 76
- Race Assimilation / Marcus Garvey 86
- The True Solution to the Negro Problem / Marcus Garvey 86
- An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself / Marcus Garvey 87
- The Negro's Place in World Reorganization / Marcus Garvey 90
- Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem / Marcus Garvey 92
- Racial Ideals / Marcus Garvey 95
- Chapter 3 Assimilation and Social Uplift 99
- An Address to the Colored People of the United States / Frederick Douglass 104
- The Present and Future of the Colored Race in America / Frederick Douglass 107
- The Lessons of the Hour / Frederick Douglass 115
- Has America a Race Problem? If So, How Can It Best Be Solved? / Anna Julia Cooper 134
- The Conservation of Races / W.E.B. Du Bois 141
- The Talented Tenth / W.E.B. DuBois 148
- Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington 158
- Our New Citizen / Booker T. Washington 162
- Democracy and Education / Booker T. Washington 164
- Address Delivered at Hampton Institute / Booker T. Washington 173
- Chapter 4 Contemporary Black Feminist Thought 173
- The Social Construction of Black Feminist Though / Patricia Hill Collins 176
- Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory / bell hooks 190
- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics / Kimberle Crenshaw 199
- The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House / Audre Lorde 218
- Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference / Audre Lorde 221
- Chapter 5 Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience 227
- Rights, Human Rights, and Racial Discrimination / Richard Wasserstrom 230
- A Call for Mass Action / A. Philip Randolph 239
- Letter from Birmingham City Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. 244
- A Time to Break Silence / Martin Luther King, Jr. 254
- Dr. King's Painful Dilemma / Bayard Rustin 260
- Chapter 6 Marxism and Social Progress 263
- Address to the First Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World / Lucy E. Parsons 267
- Marxism and the "Negro Question" / Ralph J. Bunche 271
- Socialism and the Negro Problem / W.E.B. Du Bois 279
- Marxism and the Negro Problem / W.E.B. Du Bois 281
- La Bourgeoisie Noire / E. Franklin Frazier 285
- Marxist Theory and the Specificity of Afro-American Oppression / Cornel West 290
- Chapter 7 Rebellion and Radical Thought 303
- By Any Means Necessary: John Locke and Malcolm X on the Right to Revolution / Jill Gordon 308
- Toward Black Liberation / Stokely Carmichael 329
- Functional Definition of Politics / Huey P. Newton 336
- Prison, Where Is Thy Victory? / Huey P. Newton 338
- Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation / Angela Y. Davis 340
- The Paradox of the African American Rebellion / Cornel West 350
- Chapter 8 Social Activism Reconsidered 363
- The "Black Revolution" and the Reconstitution of Domination / Adolph Reed, Jr. 366
- The Civil Rights Vision / Thomas Sowell 390
- Beyond Civil Rights / Glenn C. Loury 403
- The Memory of Enemies / Shelby Steele 409
- Chapter 9 Black Women Writers on Rape 417
- Lynching, Our National Crime / Ida B. Wells-Barnett 420
- Illinois Lynchings / Ida B. Wells-Barnett 423
- Advancing Luna
- And Ida B. Wells / Alice Walker 429
- Split Affinities: The Case of Interracial Rape / Valerie Smith 438
- Sexual Politics: An Antilynching Crusader in Revisionist Feminism / Joy James 450
- Chapter 10 Alienation and Self-Respect 465
- Alienation and the African-American Experience / Howard McGary 468
- Race and Alienation / Ralph J. Bunche 479
- Separation and Self-Respect / W.E.B. Du Bois 487
- Servility and Self-Respect / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. 490
- Rawlsian Self-Respect and the Black Consciousness Movement / Laurence M. Thomas 501
- Self-Respect and Protest / Bernard R. Boxill 509.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0130846961
- OCLC:
- 47805008
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