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New perspectives on the Black intellectual tradition / edited by Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- African American Intellectual History Society. Annual Conference (1st : 2016 : Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life--Congresses.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--Congresses.
- African diaspora--Congresses.
- African diaspora.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo Ruiz Suárez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of thought.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The contours of Black intellectual history / Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer
- Black internationalism. Introduction / Michael O. West
- "Every wide-awake Negro teacher of French should know" : the pedagogies of Black internationalism in the early twentieth century / Celeste Day Moore
- Afro-Cuban intellectuals and the new Negro renaissance : Bernardo Ruiz Suarez's The color question in the two Americas / Reena N. Goldthree
- "To start something to help these people" : African American women and the occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 / Brandon R. Byrd
- Religion and spirituality. Introduction / Judith Weisenfeld
- Isolated believer : Alain Locke, Baha'i secularist / David Weinfeld
- The new Negro renaissance and African American secularism / Christopher Cameron
- "I had a praying grandmother" : religion, prophetic witness, and Black women's herstories / LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
- Racial politics and struggles for social justice. Introduction / Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
- Historical ventriloquy : Black thought and sexual politics in the interracial marriage of Frederick Douglass / Guy Emerson Mount
- Reigning assimilationists and defiant Black power : the struggle to define and regulate racist ideas / Ibram X. Kendi
- Becoming African women : women's cultural nationalist theorizing in the U.S organization and the Committee for Unified Newark / Ashley D. Farmer
- Black radicalism. introduction / Robin D. G. Kelley
- Runaways, rescuers, and the politics of breaking the law / Christopher Bonner
- Conspiracies, seditions, rebellions : concepts and categories in the study of slave resistance / Gregory Childs
- African American expats, Guyana, and the Pan-African ideal in the 1970s / Russell Rickford.
- Notes:
- "In March 2016 we organized the inaugural conference of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), a scholarly organization founded in 2014 to foster dialogue about researching, writing, and teaching black thought and culture."
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3814-X
- OCLC:
- 1065025007
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