Walkin' the talk : an anthology of African American studies / edited by Bill Lyne and Vernon Damani Johnson ; foreword by Adolph Reed, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyne, Bill, 1959-

Johnson, Vernon Damani.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Politics and government--Sources.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions--Sources.

African Americans--Literary collections.

American literature--Political aspects.

American literature.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Politics and government.

United States.

American literature--African American authors.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

English language--United States--Rhetoric.

English language.

Politics in literature.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Sources.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 808 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Walking the talk

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2003.

Summary:

This comprehensive anthology of primary texts surveys the experience of Africans in America from the eighteenth century to the present. Texts from a variety of disciplines encompass history, literature, and politics, and accurately represent the expression of African America. The book also highlights the usually neglected tradition of radicalism in African American Studies. An inclusive approach features familiar texts by familiar authors, texts by authors not usually anthologized, and unfamiliar texts by familiar authors. The six-part organization of this book groups works under the headings of: New World Slavery, Black Resistance and Abolition, Reconstruction, The Jim Crow Era, Civil Rights and Black Power, and The Post-Industrial, Post-Civil Rights Era. A variety of discourses help to illuminate the world context from which African American experiences emerge.

Contents:

Part 1 New World Slavery 1

/ Olaudah Equiano

from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789) 2

/ Quobna Ottobah Cugoano

from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787) 24

/ Phillis Wheatley

On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773) 37

To the University of Cambridge, in New-England (1776) 37

To His Excellency General Washington (1773) 38

/ Benjamin Banneker

Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) 40

/ Thomas Jefferson

from Notes on the State of Virginia (1789) 43

/ David Hume

Of National Characters (1754) 49

/ Immanuel Kant

On National Characteristics (1764) 52

/ Georges Leopold Cuvier

Varieties of the Human Species (1797) 54

/ David Brion Davis

from The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1975) 58

/ C. L. R. James

from The Black Jacobins (1963) 66

/ Vincent Harding

from The Other American Revolution (1980) 75

Part 2 Black Resistance and Abolition 79

/ Thomas Gray

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) 80

/ David Walker

David Walker's Appeal To the Colored Citizens Of The World, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of The United States Of America (1831) 96

/ Henry Highland Garnet

An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1843) 115

/ Frederick Douglass

from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) 121

from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) 151

/ Sojourner Truth

Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention (1851) 164

/ Martin R. Delaney

from The Condition, Elevation, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (1852) 165

/ Harriet E. Wilson

from Our Nig (1859) 182

Chapter I, "Mag Smith, My Mother" 182

/ Harriet Jacobs

from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) 186

Chapter V, "The Trials of Girlhood" 186

Chapter VI, "The Jealous Mistress" 188

Chapter XII, "Fear of Insurrection" 193

/ William Wells Brown

from The Negro in the American Rebellion (1866) 197

Chapter VI, "The John Brown Raid" 197

/ Angela Y. Davis

The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights (1981) 200

/ Howard Zinn

Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom (1995) 210

Part 3 Reconstruction 219

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States 220

/ Elizabeth Keckley

from Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868) 222

Chapter IX, "Behind the Scenes" 222

/ W. E. B. Du Bois

from Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1935) 226

Chapter VIII, "Transubstantiation of a Poor White" 226

Part 4 The Jim Crow Era 241

/ Frances E. W. Harper

Bury Me in a Free Land (1864) 242

Aunt Chloe's Politics (1872) 243

Songs for the People (1895) 243

Woman's Political Future (1893) 244

/ Anna Julia Cooper

from A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892) 248

"Has America a Race Problem; If So, How Can It Best Be Solved?" 248

/ Ida B. Wells-Barnett

From A Red Record (1895) 258

Chapter I, "The Case Stated" 258

Chapter VI, "History of Some Cases of Rape" 264

/ Henry McNeal Turner

The Barbarous Decision of the Supreme Court (1889) 274

/ Booker T. Washington

from Up From Slavery (1901) 281

Chapter XIV, "The Atlanta Exposition Address" 281

/ Paul Lawrence Dunbar

from The Sport of the Gods (1902) 290

Chapter VII, "In New York" 290

from The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 295

Chapter I, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" 295

Chapter III, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" 301

/ A. Philip Randolph

A New Crowd

A New Negro (1919) 311

/ Rudolf Fisher

The Caucasian Storms Harlem (1927) 314

/ Marcus Garvey

The Future As I See It (1923) 322

/ Langston Hughes

Goodbye Christ (1932) 326

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921) 327

The Weary Blues (1925) 327

Harlem [1] (1951) 328

Ballad of the Landlord (1940) 329

The Backlash Blues (1967) 330

Bombings in Dixie (1967) 331

/ Claude McKay

If We Must Die (1919) 332

The White House (1922) 332

To the White Fiends (1919) 333

America (1921) 333

/ Anne Spencer

White Things (1923) 334

/ Georgia Douglas Johnson

Common Dust (1922) 335

/ Alice Dunbar-Nelson

The Proletariat Speaks (1929) 336

/ Virginia A. Houston

Class Room (1929) 338

/ Dorothea Mathews

The Lynching (1928) 339

/ Helene Johnson

Bottled (1923) 340

/ Gwendolyn B. Bennett

Heritage (1923) 342

/ Angelina Weld Grimke

El Beso (1923) 343

/ Sterling D. Spero, Abram L. Harris

from The Black Worker (1931) 344

Chapter XVIII, "The 'New' Negro and Post-War Unrest" 344

/ Zora Neale Hurston

The Gilded Six-Bits (1933) 356

/ Mae V. Cowdery

Insatiate (1936) 365

Lines to a Sophisticate (1936) 366

Part 5 Civil Rights and Black Power 367

/ Chester Himes

from If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) 368

/ Richard Wright

from White Man Listen! (1957) 378

Chapter 2, "Tradition and Industrialization" 378

American Negroes and Africa's Rise to Freedom (1958) 395

/ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter From Birmingham Jail (1964) 399

/ Malcolm X

Not just an American problem, but a world problem (1965) 412

/ LeRoi Jones

The Slave (1964) 431

/ James Baldwin

from The Fire Next Time (1963) 456

from No Name in the Street (1972) 467

/ Harold Cruse

from The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) 478

"The Intellectuals and Force and Violence" 478

/ Eldridge Cleaver

from Soul on Ice (1968) 504

"On Becoming" 504

"The Black Man's Stake in Vietnam" 512

/ Gwendolyn Brooks

Riot (1969) 517

/ Mari Evans

I Am a Black Woman (1969) 518

/ Sam Greenlee

from The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1967) 519

Chapter 12 519

/ Maya Angelou

from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) 526

Chapter 19 526

/ Bobby Seale

from Seize the Time (1970) 529

"The Panther Program" 529

"Why We Are Not Racists" 535

/ Addison Gayle, Jr.

from The Black Aesthetic (1971) 538

"Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic" 538

/ Lucille Clifton

the lost baby poem (1972) 544

Derrick Morrison

Black Liberation and the Coming American Revolution (1974) 546

/ Carolyn M. Rogers

and when the revolution came (1975) 562

Part 6 The Post-Industrial, Post-Civil Rights Era 565

/ Audre Lorde

Power (1978) 566

/ William Julius Wilson

from The Declining Significance of Race (1978) 568

Chapter 6, "Protests, Politics, and the Changing Black Class Structure" 568

from Sister Outsider (1984) 583

"Poetry Is Not a Luxury" 583

"The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" 585

/ Sonia Sanchez

from homegirls and handgrenades (1984) 589

"Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament" 589

"MIA's" 591

/ Molefi Asante

from Afrocentricity (1988) 596

Chapter 2, "The Constituents of Power" 596

move (1993) 607

/ Manning Marable

from Beyond Black and White (1995) 609

/ Sanyika Shakur

from Monster (1993) 616

/ Cornel West

from Keeping Faith (1993) 623

Chapter 5, "The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual" 623

/ Georgia Persons

from Dilemmas of Black Politics (1993) 636

"Black Mayoralties and the New Black Politics: From Insurgency to Racial Reconciliation" 636

/ Tricia Rose

from Black Noise (1994) 663

Chapter 1, "Voices From the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production" 663

History and Black Consciousness (1995) 678

/ Robin D. G. Kelley

from Yo Mama's Disfunktional! (1997) 690

"Looking for the 'Real' Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto" 690

Race and Criminalization (1997) 708

/ Adolph Reed, Jr.

Demobilization in the New Black Political Regime (1997) 720

/ Earl Smith

African American Intercollegiate Athletes (2001) 743

/ Robert Bullard

from Dumping in Dixie (2000) 757

Chapter 1, "Environmentalism and Social Justice" 757

/ Amiri Baraka

A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie! (1972) 776

Black People & Jesse Jackson II (1984) 777

Wise 10 (1995) 796

Wise 11 (1995) 797

Wise 12 (1995) 797

Wise 13 (1995) 798.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0130420166

OCLC:

48944517