What Is Wrong with Black People? - How Post-slave Psychology and Afrocentricity are Joining with Colonialism to Undermine Black Africa's Cultural Integrity

What Is Wrong with Black People? - How Post-slave Psychology and Afrocentricity are Joining with Colonialism to Undermine Black Africa's Cultural Integrity
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 702
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ISBN-10 : 9781847993236
ISBN-13 : 1847993230
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Synopsis What Is Wrong with Black People? - How Post-slave Psychology and Afrocentricity are Joining with Colonialism to Undermine Black Africa's Cultural Integrity by : Joe Mintsa

The mood in the world today is such that either you believe that Black people are natural slaves, or you believe that White people are evil by nature. In either case, you are in a stalemate: you can't change "nature," can you? -- Yet, not only is it very improbable for someone to turn up slave or evil just by nature; it is neither demonstrable that evil is conditioned by skin colour. The question, here, is: why should evil be White; and why should evil's target be Black? In other words, what is wrong with evil always tending to choose Black? In fact, the actual question is: what is wrong with Black people always tending to be evil's preferred targets? -- This book simply personifies a totally different type of intuition, where the most unsuspected a " yet, the most damning a " causes of the suffering and the struggles of Africans in today's world are not only laid open with courage, but also resolved with vision.

Cultural Trauma

Cultural Trauma
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 0521004373
ISBN-13 : 9780521004374
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultural Trauma by : Ron Eyerman

In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

The Demise of the Inhuman

The Demise of the Inhuman
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781438452258
ISBN-13 : 143845225X
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Demise of the Inhuman by : Ana Monteiro-Ferreira

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity. Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world, one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm, philosophically rooted in African cultures and values, fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought, such as modernism and postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and postcolonialism. In The Demise of the Inhuman, Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the “infrastructures of dominance and privilege,” arguing that Western concepts such as individualism, colonialism, race and ethnicity, universalism, and progress, are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity, she argues, can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early

The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized

The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 516
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ISBN-10 : 9781438475448
ISBN-13 : 1438475446
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized by : Errol A. Henderson

The study of the impact of Black Power Movement (BPM) activists and organizations in the 1960s through ʼ70s has largely been confined to their role as proponents of social change; but they were also theorists of the change they sought. In The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized Errol A. Henderson explains this theoretical contribution and places it within a broader social theory of black revolution in the United States dating back to nineteenth-century black intellectuals. These include black nationalists, feminists, and anti-imperialists; activists and artists of the Harlem Renaissance; and early Cold War–era black revolutionists. The book first elaborates W. E. B. Du Bois's thesis of the "General Strike" during the Civil War, Alain Locke's thesis relating black culture to political and economic change, Harold Cruse's work on black cultural revolution, and Malcolm X's advocacy of black cultural and political revolution in the United States. Henderson then critically examines BPM revolutionists' theorizing regarding cultural and political revolution and the relationship between them in order to realize their revolutionary objectives. Focused more on importing theory from third world contexts that were dramatically different from the United States, BPM revolutionists largely ignored the theoretical template for black revolution most salient to their case, which undermined their ability to theorize a successful black revolution in the United States. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of The Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org, and access the book online at http://muse.jhu.edu/book/67098. It is also available through the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1704.

Harlemworld

Harlemworld
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9780226390000
ISBN-13 : 0226390004
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Harlemworld by : John L. Jackson Jr.

Harlem is one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world—a historic symbol of both black cultural achievement and of the rigid boundaries separating the rich from the poor. But as this book shows us, Harlem is far more culturally and economically diverse than its caricature suggests: through extensive fieldwork and interviews, John L. Jackson reveals a variety of social networks and class stratifications, and explores how African Americans interpret and perform different class identities in their everyday behavior.

Being Black in the World

Being Black in the World
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Publisher : Wits University Press
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781776143689
ISBN-13 : 177614368X
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Being Black in the World by : N. Chabani Manganyi

An annotated edition of a classic text by South Africa's first black psychologist, a collection of essays reflecting on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years Being-Black-in-the-World, one of N. Chabani Manganyi’s first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule and the emergence of Black Consciousness in the mid-1960s. Manganyi is one of South Africa’s most eminent intellectuals and an astute social and political observer. He has written widely on subjects relating to ethno-psychiatry, autobiography, black artists and race. In 2018 Manganyi’s memoir, Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist was awarded the prestigious ASSAf (The Academy of Science of South Africa) Humanities Book Award. Publication of Being-Black-in-the-World was delayed until the young Manganyi had left the country to study at Yale University. His publishers feared that the apartheid censorship board and security forces would prohibit him from leaving the country, and perhaps even incarcerate him, for being a ‘radical revolutionary’. The book found a limited public circulation in South Africa due to this censorship and original copies were hard to come by. This new edition is an invitation to a younger generation of citizens to engage with early decolonialising thought by an eminent South African intellectual. While the essays in this book are clearly situated in the material and social conditions of that time, they also have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary concerns regarding black subjectivity, affectivity and corporeality, the persistence of a racial (and racist) order and the possibilities of a renewed de-colonial project. Each of these short essays can be read as self-contained reflections on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years. Manganyi is a master of understatement, and yet this does not stop him from making incisive political criticisms of black subjugation under apartheid. The essays will reward close study for anyone trying to make sense of black subjectivity and the persistence of white insensitivity to black suffering. Ahead of its time, the ideas in this book are an exemplary demonstration of what a thoroughgoing and rigorous de-colonial critique should entail. The re-publication of this classic text is enriched by the inclusion of a foreword and annotation by respected scholars Garth Stevens and Grahame Hayes respectively, and an afterword by public intellectual Njabulo S. Ndebele.

Third Mind

Third Mind
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Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105123581055
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Synopsis Third Mind by : Joe Mintsa

Offers a different slant on the hunt for the real motives for the grievances endured by Africans in modern history. This book deals with the disclosure of the true face of their historical misadventures and political struggles, and puts the case for a greater understanding of the needs and aspirations of Africans.

The Afrocentric Paradigm

The Afrocentric Paradigm
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Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056675526
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Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Afrocentric Paradigm by : Ama Mazama

The Afrocentric Idea

The Afrocentric Idea
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Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012191691
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Synopsis The Afrocentric Idea by : Molefi Kete Asante

This new edition of "The Afrocentric Idea" boldly confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against Molefi Kete Asante's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. Expanding on his core ideas, Asante recasts his original ideas in the tradition of provocative critiques of the established social order. 256 p. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language
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Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages : 945
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ISBN-10 : 9780199795390
ISBN-13 : 0199795398
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of African American Language by : Sonja L. Lanehart

Offers a set of diverse analyses of traditional and contemporary work on language structure and use in African American communities.