Slave culture : nationalist theory and the foundations of Black America / Sterling Stuckey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stuckey, Sterling.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

African Americans--Race identity--History--19th century.

African Americans.

Pan-Africanism--History--19th century.

Pan-Africanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988, c1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this ground-breaking study, Sterling Stuckey, a leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that, at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion with profound implications for theories of black liberation and for the future of race relations in America. Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey rev

Contents:

Contents; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Slavery and the Circle of Culture; CHAPTER TWO: David Walker: In Defense of African Rights and Liberty; CHAPTER THREE: Henry Highland Garnet: Nationalism, Class Analysis, and Revolution; CHAPTER FOUR: Identity and Ideology: The Names Controversy; CHAPTER FIVE: W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Cultural Reality and the Meaning of Freedom; CHAPTER SIX: On Being African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p. 359-413 and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-802124-0

1-280-52361-1

1-4237-3636-2

1-60129-718-1

OCLC:

475955934