The Black Consciousness Reader

The Black Consciousness Reader
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Publisher : OR Books
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9781682191729
ISBN-13 : 1682191729
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Consciousness Reader by : Baldwin Ndaba

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.

Fear of Black Consciousness

Fear of Black Consciousness
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9780141989655
ISBN-13 : 0141989653
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Fear of Black Consciousness by : Lewis R. Gordon

'Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure' Kehinde Andrews, Guardian Where is the path to racial justice? In this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon ranges over history, art and pop culture - from ancient African languages to the film Get Out - to show why the answer lies not just in freeing Black bodies from the fraud of white supremacy, but in freeing all of our minds. Building on the influential work of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois, Fear of Black Consciousness is a vital contribution to our conversations on racial politics, identity and culture. 'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis

The Black Studies Reader

The Black Studies Reader
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9781135942571
ISBN-13 : 1135942579
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Studies Reader by : Jacqueline Bobo

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Biko

Biko
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 553
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ISBN-10 : 9781429936385
ISBN-13 : 142993638X
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Biko by : Donald Woods

Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.

Black Reconstruction in America

Black Reconstruction in America
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 686
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ISBN-10 : 9781412846677
ISBN-13 : 1412846676
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Reconstruction in America by : W. E. B. Du Bois

After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these former slaves attempted to reconstruct the basis of American democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the greatest intellectual leaders in United States history, evaluates the twenty years of fateful history that followed the Civil War, with special reference to the efforts and experiences of African Americans. Du Bois’s words best indicate the broader parameters of his work: "the attitude of any person toward this book will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced." The plight of the white working class throughout the world is directly traceable to American slavery, on which modern commerce and industry was founded, Du Bois argues. Moreover, the resulting color caste was adopted, forwarded, and approved by white labor, and resulted in the subordination of colored labor throughout the world. As a result, the majority of the world’s laborers became part of a system of industry that destroyed democracy and led to World War I and the Great Depression. This book tells that story.

Black Culture and Black Consciousness

Black Culture and Black Consciousness
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 546
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ISBN-10 : 0195023749
ISBN-13 : 9780195023749
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Culture and Black Consciousness by : Lawrence W. Levine

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

Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781585421664
ISBN-13 : 1585421669
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Hallucinogens by : Charles S. Grob

It's been forty years since Timothy Leary sat beside a swimming pool in Cuernavaca, Mexico, ingested several grams of the genus Stropharia cubensis, and experienced a dazzling display of visions that led him to herald the dawning of a New Age. And yet, from the counterculture movement of the 1960s, through the War on Drugs, to this very day, the world at large has viewed hallucinogens not as a gift but as a threat to society. In Hallucinogens, Charles Grob surveys recent writings from such important thinkers as Terence McKenna, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil, illustrating that a reevaluation of the social worth of hallucinogens-used intelligently-is greatly in order.

Just My Soul Responding

Just My Soul Responding
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 712
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ISBN-10 : 9781135370039
ISBN-13 : 1135370036
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Just My Soul Responding by : Brian Ward

Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music.

Black Consciousness Reader

Black Consciousness Reader
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1431426482
ISBN-13 : 9781431426485
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Consciousness Reader by : Baldwin Comp-Ndaba

I Write what I Like

I Write what I Like
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Publisher : Heinemann
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0435905988
ISBN-13 : 9780435905989
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis I Write what I Like by : Steve Biko

On 12th September 1977, Steve Biko was murdered in his prison cell. He was only 31, but his vision and charisma - captured in this collection of his work - had already transformed the agenda of South African politics. This book covers the basic philosophy of black consciousness, Bantustans, African culture, the institutional church and Western involvement in apartheid.