Black Culture and Black Consciousness

Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Author: Lawrence W. Levine
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1978
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195023749

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Surveys the oral cultural heritage of black Americans as manifested in music, folk tales and heroes, and humor.

Black Culture and Black Consciousness

Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Author: the late Lawrence W. Levine
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2007-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199885534

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When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness, Levine uncovered a cultural treasure trove, illuminating a rich and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, proverbs, jokes, folktales, and long narrative poems called toasts--work that dated from before and after emancipation. The fact that these ideas and sources seem so commonplace now is in large part due this book and the scholarship that followed in its wake. A landmark work that was part of the "cultural turn" in American history, Black Culture and Black Consciousness profoundly influenced an entire generation of historians and continues to be read and taught. For this anniversary reissue, Levine wrote a new preface reflecting on the writing of the book and its place within intellectual trends in African American and American cultural history.

The Black Consciousness Reader

The Black Consciousness Reader
Author: Baldwin Ndaba,Therese Owen,Masego Panyane,Rabbie Sermula,Janet Smith
Publsiher: OR Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2019-04-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781682191729

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There is a current revival of Black Consciousness, as political and student movements around the world – as well as academics and campaigners working in decolonization – reconfigure the continued struggle for socio-economic revolution. Yet the roots of Black Consciousness and its relation to other movements such as Black Lives Matter have only begun to be explored. Black Consciousness has deep connections to the struggle against apartheid. The Black Consciousness Reader is an essential collection of history, culture, philosophy and meaning of Black Consciousness by some of the thinkers, artists and activists who developed it in order to finally bring revolution to South Africa. A contribution to the world’s Black cultural archive, it examines how the proper acknowledgement of Blackness brings a greater love, a broader sweep of heroes and a wider understanding of intellectual and political influences. Although the legendary murdered activist Steve Biko is a strong figure within this history, the book documents many other significant international Black Consciousness personalities and focuses a predominantly African eye on Black Consciousness in politics, land, women, power, art, music and religion. Onkgopotse Tiro, Vuyelwa Mashalaba, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Assata Shakur, Marcus Garvey, Neville Alexander, Thomas Sankara, Malcolm X, Don Mattera, Keorapetse Kgositsile, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter Rodney, Mongane Wally Serote, Ready D and Zola are among the many bold minds included in this amalgam of facts, ideas and images.

FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM

FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
Author: JOHN HOPE. FRANKLIN
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1950
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:974660296

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Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness

Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness
Author: Carlyle Fielding Stewart
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 0865436630

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The central idea behind this book is that black American spirituality has the power to accentuate, inform and strengthen black life. As a result of the gains made in pursuit of their emancipation, black Americans have developed a spiritual gift of resourcefulness that compels them to confront and transform the forces of evil and oppression that have instigated their demise. Hence the creation of a culture of spirituality and a spirituality of culture through creative and resistant soul force.

Black Culture and Black Consciousness

Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Author: Lawrence W. Levine
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2007-04-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780195305692

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When this book first appeared in 1977, it marked a revolution in the understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness, the author uncovered a rich and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, proverbs, jokes, folktales, and long narrative poems called toasts--work that dated from before and after emancipation. The fact that these ideas and sources seem so commonplace now is in large part due this book and the scholarship that followed in its wake. A landmark work that was part of the "cultural turn" in American history, this book profoundly influenced an entire generation of historians.

African American Consciousness

African American Consciousness
Author: James L. Conyers, Jr.
Publsiher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781412847995

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African American Consciousness focuses on ideas of culture, race, and class within the interdisciplinary matrix of Africana Studies. Even more important, it uses a methodology that emphasizes interpretation and the necessity of interdisciplinary research and writing in a global society. Worldview, culture, analytic thinking, and historiography can all be used as tools of analysis, and in the process of discovery, use pedagogy, and survey research of Africana history. Advancing the idea of Africana Studies, mixed methodology, and triangulation, the contributors provide alternative approaches toward examining this phenomena, with regard to place, space, and time. The essays in this volume include Reynaldo Anderson, “Black History dot.com”; Greg Carr, “Black Consciousness, Pan-Africanism and the African World History Project”; Karanja Carroll, “A Genealogical Review of the Worldview Concept and Framework in Africana Studies”; Denise Martin, “Reflections on African Celestial Culture”; Serie McDougal “Teaching Black Males”; Demetrius Pearson, “Cowboys of Color”; Pamela Reed, “Heirs to Disparity”; and Andrew Smallwood, “Malcolm X’s Leadership and Legacy.” The researchers in this volume investigate, explore, and review patterns of functional, normative, and expressive behavior. The past and present of Africana culture is represented, showing how reflexivity can be an adjustable concept to organize, process, and interpret data. Moreover, humanism and social science demonstrate how researchers establish, extract, and identify the limitations and alternative approaches to research of the historic conditions of black Americans.

The Black Atlantic

The Black Atlantic
Author: Paul Gilroy
Publsiher: Verso
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 0860916758

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An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.