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http://www.unp.ac.za/UNPDepartments/theol/CLUS-PUB.HTMunp.ac.za Black Catholic Resources Nameci Internet Productions Contents Home Dedication Kwanzaa Curriculm Resources from Full Service Providers Black Catholic Resource Page Links Contacting us Stills Form Native American Catholic Resource Page BLACK CATHOLIC RESOURCES Several years ago we began searching for multicultural HYPERLINK: http://www.cyberia.com/pages/ahalliwell/pages/OLRS.html http://www.cyberia.com/pages/ahalliwell/pages/OLRS.html cyberia.com BLACK CHRISTIAN STUDIES An examination of the historical roots of black theology with special attention to the treatments of traditional themes and problems in theology by black theologians and their HYPERLINK: http://registrar.duke.edu/ACES/course_descrip/BCS.html http://registrar.duke.edu/ACES/course_descrip/BCS.html Liberation Theology: a Cancer in our Clergy Liberation Theology on the Move in the United States By Bill McIlhanyLiberation Theology owes much of success to its allies among American clergy. Unable to withstand contemporary currents of power, these liberal religious leaders are swept up in the race to trade theology for http://members.tripod.com/BioLeft/libtheo.htm THEOLOGY (in MARION) THEOLOGY Theology. (about) (33 titles) Search also note: subdivision Theology under individual monastic and religious orders, e.g. Jesuits--Theology. Search also under: Apologetics. Search also under: Bible. Search also under: Buddhism -- Doctrines. Search also under: Church http://stafla.dlis.state.fl.us/MARION?S=THEOLOGYstate.fl.us African American-Old Time Religion Synopsis: The "Old Time Religion": A Wholistic Challenge To The Black Church Author: Dr. Gyasi Foluke In The "Old Time Religion," the author provides a broad range of spiritual and social commentary in challenging the Black Church--more specifically its Ministers and leaders http://www.charweb.org/organizations/kush/oldtime.htmlcharweb.org Antonio's Home Page - Iliff School of Theology Antonio's Home Page Edward P. Antonio, Ph.D. Born in Zimbabwe and educated in England and Scotland, Edward is Assistant Professor of Theology and Social Theory at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. http://www.du.edu/~eantonio/ Black Theology -- A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography-Black Theology, Compiled by James H. Evans, Jr. G.E. http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313248/0313248222.html Black Theology (by Ron Rhodes) - "Black Theology, Black Power, and the Black Experience" Part Two in a Three-Part Series on Liberation Theology by Ron Rhodes Between 1517 and 1840 it is estimated that twenty million blacks were captured in Africa, transported to America, and brutally enslaved. http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/BlackTheology.html Systematic Theology - SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY Systematic Theology is being offered for the present only on second and third year levels and therefore operates as a two-year major. http://www.text.ru.ac.za/departments/divinity/sys.htm Body-DALIT THEOLOGY: AN INDIAN CHRISTIAN ATTEMPT TO GIVE VOICE TO THE VOICELESS Rev. Dr. The emergence of dalit theology in India can be considered as a significant event in the history of Indian Christian thinking as it is very much related to the historical experiences of an oppressed and down trodden people. http://www.wwa.com/~sak777/dalit.htm Untitled - UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM THEOLOGICAL STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY This bibliography is designed to introduce students to the main areas of Theological Studies. http://www.coins.nd.edu/~theo/bib/TS.Bib.html Christianity Books -- Fundamentalism. - Christianity Books -- Fundamentalism. Books on Christianity or the Christian faith. Includes the teachings of Jesus and the Bible. All Christianity or Christian books are featured on Soul to Spirit Online Bookstore http://www.agelessinitiatives.com/soul2spt/chrfndbok.htm Taking you on a Journey - Hello. You've made it to my homepage. First, a little about me and why I began this project. As a student at Santa Clara University, I studied two majors: English and Religious Studies. http://www-acc.scu.edu/~kgawrych/ About the Shrine of the Black Madonna - Shrines of the Black Madonna of the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman (Rev. 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Department of Philosophy East Carolina University pymercer@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu TEACHING POSITIONS HELD East Carolina University, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religion, Spring 1981-Fall 1984 Florida A & M University, Instructor of... http://www.ecu.edu/phil/mercerv.html Theologians of the Second Half of the 20th Century - By Miles Hod... - Christian Fundamentalism Christian Liberalism Roman Catholicism Christian Social Activism/Liberationism Martin Luther King Jr. World Council of Churches Uppsala Conference (1968) Bankok Conference on World Mission and Evangelicalism (1973) Nairobi Conference (1975) Confessing Christ Today (more truly evangelical) Vancouver Conference (1983) Second Latin American Episcopal Conference... http://www2.cybernex.net/~mhodges/reference/20b-theology.htm CALVARY CHAPEL WEST VALLEY: ONLINE LIBRARY-Write To Us At: CCWV@Hotmail.com http://www.calvarychapel.com/westvalley/library/index.htm Stuff I wrote - Attempts at Humour A Marxian Analysis of Capitalism and the Oppression of the Wiccan Religion (the topic was "All witches should be burnt." for Intro to Philosophy) http://www.nd.edu/~akreider/writings.htm Religion & Philosophy Resources at the Eden-Webster Library - This bibliography lists primarily reference sources and databases available on the subject at the Eden-Webster Library in St. Louis, Missouri. HYPERLINK http://library.websteruniv.edu/elwrelig.html http://library.websteruniv.edu/elwrelig.html Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center -An ecumenical center for Palestinian Liberation Theology which seeks to make the Gospel contextually relevant.In Arabic Sabeel means 'The Way' and also a 'Spring of Water'. http://www.sabeel.org/ National Catholic Reporter begin quote- INSIDE NCR-JOHN PAUL REFLECTION: LIBERATING THE POOR Pope John Paul II, traveling to Latin America earlier this monthhttp://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/nolongeraprob.html Liberation Theology - Liberation theology, a term first used in 1973 by Gustavo Gutierrez, a Peruvian Roman Catholic priest, is a school of thought among Latin American Catholics according to which the Gospel of Christ demands that the church concentrate its efforts on liberating the people of the world from poverty and oppression. http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txn/liberati.htm Stef's Links about Liberation Theology - Beautiful background was provided by: Ace of Space Are you LOST? LIBERATION THEOLOGY: The Future of Liberation Theology by Daniel H. Liberation Theology: Basis - Past - Present - Future by Manfred Davidmann http://www.pitt.edu/~sasst33/LIBERATION/liberation.html Religion in Latin America- Theology-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Vatican II documents, especially: Church in the Modern World Catholic Social Teaching, see, for example: David J. http://www.providence.edu/las/theology.htm Theology - Theology Library Theology 22 links Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian. http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFTHEO.HTM Catheo.Net-Theology For Thinking Catholics - In this area, we archive the many and varied discussions that have taken place on a variety of topics on the Catheo.Net Messageboard. The messages have a life on the board of twenty days, after which time they are transferred here. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8558/archives.html Gustavo Gutirrez: non-believers and non-persons : religious at-a guide to nontraditional & multicultural sources regarding atheism and liberation theology. http://www.hypertext.com/atheisms/gutierrez.html Atheism of suspicion: psychology, economics, sociology : religious ath...- a guide of nontraditional & multicultural sources regarding the atheism of suspicion in psychology, economics and sociology. http://www.hypertext.com/atheisms/suspicion.html Critical Issues in Modern Religion - Roger Johnson Ernest Wallwork Paul Santmire Clifford Green Harold Vanderpool Sign up for future mailings on this subject. Critical Issues in Modern Religion. http://www.prenhall.com/books/hss_0131939963.html Religion in Latin America- Theology-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Vatican II documents, especially: Church in the Modern World Catholic Social Teaching, see, for example: David J. http://www.providence.edu/las/theology.htm Liberation Theology (by Ron Rhodes)-"Christian Revolution in Latin America: The Changing Face of Liberation Theology" Part One in a Three-Part Series on Liberation Theology by Ron Rhodes http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/Liberation.html Theologians of the Second Half of the 20th Century - By Miles Hod... - Christian Fundamentalism Christian Liberalism Roman Catholicism Christian Social Activism/ Liberationism Martin Luther King Jr. World Council of Churches Uppsala Conference (1968) Bankok Conference on World Mission and Evangelicalism (1973) Nairobi Conference (1975) Confessing Christ Today (more truly evangelical) Vancouver Conference (1983) Second Latin American Episcopal Conference... http://www2.cybernex.net/~mhodges/reference/20b-theology.htm Option for the Poor-John Carr thinks ". . .we in the United States are in some trouble." Carr's conclusion is based on his reflection on our society and on the fifth principle of Catholic Social Teaching - the 'option for the poor.' In an interview published in the March/April 1996 Salt of the Earth, Carr, Secretary for Social Development and World Peace, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, reminds us that,... http://rrnet.com/~sedaqah/option.htm Vol. 76, No. 1-The Journal of Religion Volume 76, Number 1, January 1996 Modern and Ancient Jewish ApocalypticismJOEL MARCUS "Solitary" Mysticism in Plotinus, Proclus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Pseudo-DionysiusKEVIN CORRIGAN http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JR/v76n1toc.html Body-DALIT THEOLOGY: AN INDIAN CHRISTIAN ATTEMPT TO GIVE VOICE TO THE VOICELESS. Rev. Dr. The emergence of dalit theology in India can be considered as a significant event in the history of Indian Christian thinking as it is very much related to the historical experiences of an oppressed and down trodden people. http://www.wwa.com/~sak777/dalit.htm Thomas F. O'Meara: Modern Art and the Sacred -Modern Art and the Sacred: The Prophetic Ministry of Alain Couturier, O.P.by Thomas F. Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P.is the William K. Warren Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. http://www.op.org/Domcentral/library/spir2day/86381omeara.ht... Untitled - Gustavo Gutierrez in Poststructuralist Critique: Toward a Postmodern Liberation1 Jaime R. Introduction to the Problem: Objectivist Rhetoric and Oppression HYPERLINK http://www.uts.columbia.edu/~usqr/BALBOA.HTM http://www.uts.columbia.edu/~usqr/BALBOA.HTM Option for the Poor (Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions, Baker Book House, forthcoming 2000) While there has long been a recognition that the poor hold special attention and affection in God's eyes, the phrase "option for the poor" or "preferential option for the poor" is of relatively recent coinage. http://www.wheaton.edu/Missions/Moreau/Articles/Option.htm PEVA Worship Resources -Abuse of Power, The James Newton Poling Abingdon Press, Nashville TN And Show Steadfast Love Lewis H Merrick Body Theology James B Nelson Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, KY 1 http://www.makwoods.org/peva/bible.htm Straight Talk on Shining Path and the Catholic Church in Peru (June 92...-The following is reprinted with permission from the weekly Revolutionary Worker newspaper by the Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru: Circa June 1992. http://www.csrp.org/rw/rwchurch.htm News of Theological Institutions -PC(USA) News release 96122 http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/oldnews/1996/96122.htm Raschke & Taylor: Deconstruction and theology: religious atheism-a guide to nontraditional & multicultural sources regarding atheism and the death of God. http://www.hypertext.com/atheisms/raschketaylor.html With Head and Heart. Howard Thurman Jesus and the Disinherited. Howard Thurman, Vincent Harding. 1949 First published in 1949, "Jesus and the Disinherited" is a brilliant and compassionate look at God's work in our lives. Its powerful and influential message helped to shape the civil rights movement. As we continue to struggle today with issues of racism, poverty, and spiritual disengagement, Howard Thurman's discerning reading of the message of renewal through self-love as exemplified in the life of Jesus resonates once again. Challenging our submersion into individual and social isolation, Thurman suggests a reading of the Gospel that recovers a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. He argues that within Jesus' life of suffering, pain, and overwhelming love is the solution that will prevent our descent into moral nihilism. For although scorned and forced to live outside society, Jesus advocated a love of self and others that defeats fear and the hatred that decays our souls and the world around us. Thurman's work reaches toward a vision of unity--a welcome epistle as we approach the next century. Disciplines of the Spirit. Howard Thurman Awake, Arise, & Act : A Womanist Call for Black Liberation. (African American Studies/Women's Studies). Marcia Y. Riggs. 1994 An important womanist voice speaks clearly to the volatile race and class dynamics that continue to shape the debate over the African-American experience. Riggs argues that social stratification has not only seriously damaged social cooperation among blacks, but has also encouraged social dysfunction by nurturing irrational class competition. In this probing analysis of the history and future of the African American experience, Marcia Y. Riggs explains how social stratification has not only damaged cooperation among Blacks, but has also nurtured a dysfunctional class competition - competition that continues to dim hopes of justice, solidarity, and liberation in the black community. Riggs proposes the nineteenth-century black women's club movement as a model for approaching the contemporary crisis in black America. These reformers, Riggs demonstrates, recognized that the ongoing problems of racism, sexism, and classism discouraged the development of intragroup responsibility. By rejecting oppressive images and roles, the club movement challenged African Americans to strive for communal liberation and social betterment. Awake, Arise, and Act skillfully weaves together sociology, theology, and history to create a brilliant tapestry of hope and promise for African Americans in the twenty-first century. Can I Get a Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women: An Anthology. Marcia Riggs(Editor). Barbara Holmes (Editor). 1997 This anthology gathers the religious words of Afro-American women from Sojourner Truth to Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer, assembling a variety of witnesses to the Gospel and examining the links between faith and the struggle for civil rights and justice. This juxtaposes the reflections of both famous and lesser-known black women. Assembling a chorus of voices from history, Can I Get A Witness? chronicles African American women's lives as faithful witnesses to the prophetic dimensions of the Gospel, from slavery times to the present. Using touchstones of significant moments - slavery and emancipation, the Great Awakening and suffragism, women's clubs and missionary movements, and the great Civil Rights struggles - Can I Get A Witness? documents the crucial links between faith and the struggle for justice that forms the basis of the contemporary womanist movement. Many African American women, famous or not, are represented, including Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, and many others. Whether confessional, homiletic, political, or poetic, their voices bear witness on the part of African American women to the God who created, redeemed, and sustained them for the work of liberation. . Empowerment Ethics for a Liberated People: A Path to African American Social Transformation. Cheryl J. Sanders. 1995 Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology. Cheryl J. Sanders(Editor). 1995 Womanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. Yet are the two compatible? Social ethicist Cheryl Sanders marshals some leading womanist thinkers to take the measure of the Afrocentric idea and to explore the intricate relationship between Afrocentric and womanist perspectives. Ministry at the Margins: The Prophetic Mission of Women, Youth & the Poor. Cheryl J. Sanders. 1997 The author issues a call for the church to update the idea of ministry and mission by moving away from condescension and towards inclusion of marginalized groups seeking justice. For centuries women, youth and the poor have been seen as objects of Christian ministry, but rarely as those who do ministry themselves. This is so much the case that in some quarters today ministry and mission are bad words, reeking of older and paternalistic models of Christian "service." In this challenging book, Cheryl Sanders demonstrates how mission can be updated. Far from being regressive or irrelevant in a multicultural, nonpatriarchal world, Christian mission can come alive when it is not just ministry to but ministry by marginalized groups seeking justice. Ministry at the Margins is an important Christian ethicist's rousing call to "find grace to articulate a theology of inclusion and to establish inclusive practices and multicultural perspectives that harmonize with the gospel we preach and honor the Christ we proclaim." Essential reading for pastors, church leaders, students, urban missionaries and campus ministers. Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture (Religion in America). Cheryl J. Sanders. 1999 My Sister, My Brother: Womanist and Xodus God-Talk (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion, Vol 12). Karen Baker-Fletcher, Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher.. Somebodyness: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theory of Dignity. Garth Baker-Fletcher. Xodus: An African American Male Journey. Garth Kasimu Baker Fletcher, et al. Written in a bold, inventive style, Xodus aims at a new, positive "reconstruction" of African American maleness in light of the black womanist movement, the men's movement, the recent vision of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the theological sensibilities of Howard Thurman. Black Theology and Black Power. James H. Cone. 1997 A Black Theology of Liberation. James H. Cone. 1990 For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church. James H. Cone. 1984 God of the Oppressed. James H. Cone. 1997 My Soul Looks Back. James H. Cone. 1986 Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998. James H. Cone. 1999 Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology. James H. Cone. 1999 Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black Theology and Black Power. Dwight N. Hopkins(Editor) 1999 James H. Cone and Black Liberation Theology. Rufus, Jr. Burrow. 1994 Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. Bell Hooks, Cornel West (Contributor). 1991 Critical Race Theory : The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. Kimberle Crenshaw(Editor), et al. 1996 The Future of the Race. Cornel West(Contributor). Henry Louis, Jr. Gates. 1997 Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America. Cornel West. 1994 Prophesy Deliverance! an Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity. Cornel West. 1982 Race Matters. Cornel West. 1994 Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America. Cornel West, et al. 1998 Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism. Cornel West. 1993 Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism (vol 2): Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America. Cornel West. 1993 Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. Bell Hooks, Cornel West. 1991 The Courage to Hope: From African-American Experience to Human Community. Quinton Hosford Dixie (Editor). Cornel West (Editor). 1999 The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. Cornel West. 1991 Post-Analytic Philosophy. John Rajchman(Editor). Cornel West (Editor). 1985 Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America (Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol 2) . Cornel West. 1993 Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times (Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol 1). Cornel West. 1993 Race Matters. Cornel West. 1993 The Soul Knows No Bars : Getting Out of Prison. Drew Leder, Cornel West. 2000 Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture. Cornel West Regarding Malcolm X: A Reader. Paula Giddings. Cornel West Theology in the Americas: Detroit Two Conference Papers. Cornel West(Editor) Mending Fences: Renewing Justice Between Government and Civil Society (Kuyper Lecture Series). Glenn C. Loury, et al. 1998 Moral Values: The Challenge of the Twenty-First Century. W. Lawson Taitte (Editor), et al. 1997 One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America. Glenn C. Loury. 1995 Transforming Welfare: The Revival of American Charity. David Beito, et al. 1997 The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse. Peter J. Paris. 1994 Black Religious Leaders: Conflict in Unity. Peter J. Paris. 1992 Secondary Sources Making the Gospel Plain: The Writings of Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom (African American Religious Thought and Life). Reverdy C. Ransom, Anthony B. Pinn (Editor) The book focuses on Bishop Reverdy Ransom of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historically significant figure whose life and work provide a much fairer view of the richness of black religious life in the second quarter of the twentieth century than has heretofore been available. Making the Gospel Plain is a unique collection of Ransom's writings that are presently out of print or little known. After outlining Ransom's life and involvements, the book moves into the actual documents: sermons and speeches, articles and editorials, and pamphlets and excerpts from his books. Explanatory notes are included where necessary. African-American Social and Political Thought 1850-1920. Howard Brotz (Editor). The previous edition of this collection of writings by Booker T. Washington, William du Bois, and Marcus Garvey, among others, was published in 1966 under the title, Negro social and political thought, 1850-1920. Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic Theology Christianity on Trial: African-American Religious Thought Before and After Black Power (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion. Mark L. Chapman, Marc Chapman Since slavery times African-American religious thinkers have struggled to answer this question: Is Christianity a source of liberation or a source of oppression? In a study that reviews representative thinkers over the last fifty years, Mark Chapman reviews the variety of ways that African-Americans have addressed this problem and how it has informed their work and lives. Beginning with Benjamin Mays, the leading "Negro" theologian of the post-World War II period, Chapman explores the critical implications of this question right up to the present day. The pivotal turning point in this period is the emergence of the Black Power movement in the 1960s. Sparked in part by the challenge of the Black Muslims, for whom Christianity was simply "the white man's religion," inherently racist and oppressive, the era of Black Power saw the rise of militant Black theologies as well. After analyzing the work of the Muslim Elijah Muhammad, Chapman turns to the pioneering work of Black theologians Albert Cleage and James H. Cone. Chapman demonstrates the differences but also uncovers surprising lines of continuity between the older "Negro theologians" and the later "Black theologians" particularly in their efforts to uncover the truly liberative potential of Christianity. Christianity on Trial concludes by exploring the recent emergence of womanist theology. As articulated by Delores S. Williams and other African-American women, "womanist theology" challenges not only the patriarchal aspects of historical Christianity, but the same limitations in previous Black theologies. Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. Dan Georgakas, et al. 1998 Since its original publication in 1975 by St. Martin's Press, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggle in the United States. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two of the most important political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. The new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic along with a new foreword by the African-American scholar Manning Marable, interviews with participants in the League, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin. The new edition includes commentary by Detroit activists Sheila Murphy Cockrel, Edna Ewell Watson, Michael Hamlin, and Herb Boyd. All of them reflect not only on the tremendous achievements of DRUM and the League, but on their political legacy for Detroit, for U.S. politics, and for them personally. Dying tells a different story; one of a core of revolutionaries in the industrial heart of America within a union with a radical past. These black revolutionaries take on the racism of the bosses, as well as the racism of the union beauracracy, in a daring and valliant attempt to bring about real social change. Some lessons for activists, trade unionists, and socialists today are included by the authors. Questions of organizing white workers; the need for a national party; wildcat strikes to take on both the company and the union beauracracy; and the need to have an international perspective. All of theses lessons are brought forth from the struggles of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and all of the Revolutionary Union Movements in the Detroit area. A must read for activists today. This is simply the best book written on the radicalization of the Black (and white/arab/latino) industrial working class in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It is also rich in lessons for radical unionists and socialists today. With all the academic presses churning out tome after tome on "race relations" why doesn't one of them pick up this fascinating book? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. An International History of the Black Panther Party (Studies in African American History and Culture). Jennifer B. Smith. 1999 Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought. John Brown Childs. 1993 Liberating Vision: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African-American Thought. Robert Michael Franklin. 1990 Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era. Reed Jr Adolph, et al. 1999 Adolph Reed Jr. has been called ìthe smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing on race, class, and gender (Katha Pollitt, Mother Jones) and ìrefreshing and radical. . . . Serious, even courageousî (Adam Schatz, The Nation) well as many less polite termsófor his bare-knuckled approach to political analysis. In Stirrings in the Jug, Reed offers a sweeping and incisive analysis of racial politics during the post-civil rights era. Skeptical of received wisdom, Reed casts a critical eye on political trends in the black community over the last thirty years. He examines the rise of a new black political class in the aftermath of the civil rights era, and bluntly denounces black leadership that is not accountable to a black constituency; such leadership, he says, functions as a proxy for white elites. Reed debunks as myths the ìendangered black maleî and the black underclass,î and punctures what he views as the exaggeration and self-deception surrounding the black power movement and the Malcolm X revival. He chastises the Left, too, for its failure to develop an alternative politics, then lays out a practical leftist agenda and reasserts the centrality of political action. In the early 1960s, Reed writes, Ralph Ellison lamented the disposition ëto see segregation as an opaque steel jug with the Negroes inside waiting for some black messiah to come along and blow the cork.íî In Stirrings in the Jug, Reed challenges us to advance emancipatory and egalitarian interests in black political life and in society at largeóìto look within the jug, examine its varied contents, and pour them freely into the world. Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought. Alma Gottlieb.1996 In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cte d'Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, symbolized by the kapok tree planted at the center of every Beng village. "This book merits a number of readings. . . . An experiment in ethnography that future projects might well emulate." --Clarke K. Speed, American Anthropologist "[An] evocative, rich ethnography. . . . Gottlieb does anthropology a real service." --Misty L. Bastian, American Ethnologist "Richly detailed. . . . This book offers a nuanced descriptive analysis which commands authority." --Elizabeth Tonkin, Man "Exemplary. . . . Gottlieb's observations on identity and difference are not confined to rituals or other special occasions; rather she shows that these principles emerge with equal force during daily social life." --Monni Adams, Journal of African Religion "[An] excellent study." --John McCall, Journal of Folklore Research The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including a Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters (Legacies of Social Thought). Anna J. Cooper, et al. 1998 W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line. Adolph L. Reed. 1999 In his own time, W.E.B. Du Bois was a controversial figure, and now, more than 30 years after his death, he continues to be so. Born in 1868, Du Bois was a central figure in African American intellectual life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, yet many of his positions are difficult to reconcile with current African American thought. Du Bois, for example, was an elitist who believed that black society was divided between "the talented tenth" and everybody else. Yet in his later years, he joined the communist party and moved to Africa, where he lived out the remainder of his life. Since his death in 1963, a generation of African American intellectuals have tried to interpret, explain, or revise him according to their own beliefs; now Adolph Reed Jr. weighs in with W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought. Reed's approach to Du Bois is simple: he believes that what you read is what you get. When, for example, Du Bois wrote movingly in The Souls of Black Folk of a feeling of "twoness," a sense of warring natures, Reed suggests that, far from embracing a notion of double consciousness, Du Bois was actually following precepts of early 20th-century social theory which described the split between primitive and civilized societies. In addition to his discussion about Du Bois, Reed comments on many other African American critics at work today, from Houston Baker to Henry Louis Gates, making the author of W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought as controversial as his subject. The New York Times Book Review, Alan Wolfe To enter the world of Adolph Reed is to return to that time when intellectuals believed that they held the keys to history.... Most intellectuals have left that world behind. In an odd way, Reed is to be admired for not having done so; the quality of our intellecutal life would be poor indeed if everyone thought the same way. Still, one has to wonder where Reed's self-confidence--his total lack of doubt about his rightness and everyone else's wrongness--comes from. In this pathbreaking book, Adolph Reed, Jr. covers for the first time the sweep and totality of W.E.B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at the turn of the century, arguing that a commitment of liberal collectivism, an essentially Fabian socialism, remained pivotal in Du Bois's thought even as he embraced a range of political programs over time, including radical Marxism. Exploring the segregation-era political discourse which informed Du Bois's texts and identifying the imperatives which triggered Du Bois's strategic political thinking, Reed reveals that Du Bois's core beliefs concerning such issues as the relationship between knowledge and progress, social stratification among blacks, and proper social organization, endured with little change from their early formulation in The Philadelphia Negro (1899). While tracking Du Bois's response to shifting political and economic contexts over nearly six decades, Reed also refines our understanding of twentieth-century progressive thought, discovering fresh continuities and tensions between fin de siecle and later socialist and Marxist discourses. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. Beverly Guy-Sheftall(Editor), Johnnetta Cole (Contributor). 1995 This anthology of African-American feminist thinking is an outstanding collection written by a pioneer of the modern black feminist movement. This is the first collection of black women's philosophy from the 1830s to modern times, revealing an intellectual tradition which is historically significant, revealing black women's struggles in this country since their arrival. Elizabeth Spelman, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College. The indefatigable Beverly Guy-Sheftall has put together a breathtaking sweep of African American feminist thought in one indispensable volume. "In this groundbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term 'feminism.' And, yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as Audre Lourde, Barbara Smith, and Bell Hooks, who stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century.--from the epilogue by Johnnetta B. Cole, President, Spelman College Tracing African-American feminist thought from the early1800s to the present, an anthology combines the works of more than sixty African-American women, including Sojourner Truth, Lorraine Hansberry, and Shirley Chisholm. African American Political Thought 1890-1930: Washington, Dubois, Garvey, and Randolph. Cary D. Wintz (Editor). 1996 Selected writings from four major figures in African American history demonstrate different and often conflicting approaches to dealing with issues of race in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The articles, essays, letters, and public statements also dispel any notion of simplification or stasis in African American political thought. Could be an invaluable reader for a history course at any level from high school to graduate. Midwest Book Review-Essays, letters, speeches and editorials produced by Washington, DuBois, Garvey and Randolph form the foundation of a fine examination of the ideas and evolution of African American political and social thinking from the 1890s through the 1920s. An excellent overview of black concerns and evolution is created through the juxtaposition of documents by the four prominent thinkers. African-American Thought: Social and Political Perspectives from Slavery to the Present. Manning Marable(Editor), Leith Mullings (Editor). 1999 Black American Intellectualism and Culture: A Social Study of African American Social and Political Thought. (Contemporary Studies in Sociology). James L. Conyers (Editor).1999 Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Patricia Hill Collins. 1990 From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen In her introduction, Patricia Hill Collins states that her work is informed by the totality of her experience as the daughter of working-class parents, her education as a sociologist and educator, and her daily "non-scholarly activities" as wife, mother, community activist, sister, and friend. Black Feminist Thought is the first history and analysis of "Black women's ideas" told in a voice that is "both individual and collective, personal and political, one reflecting the intersection of my unique biography with the larger meaning of my historical times." In it we discover new meanings for selected and neglected traditional female themes like gossip, hair, TV, movies, food, and clothing; get a fresh look at where and how knowledge is produced; learn about self-definition and about kitchens, factories, and neighborhoods as "alternative locations for intellectual work." The implications of her chapters, "The Ethic of Caring," "The Ethic of Personal Accountability," and "Reconceptualizing Race, Class, and Gender as Interlocking Systems of Oppression," are enormous and compelling. For readers interested in the sources and definitions of knowledge-especially those whose history and intellectual tradition has been lost, denied, or denigrated - Black Feminist Thought is one of the most inspiring, exciting, and valuable books you'll ever read. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals, as well as those of African-American women outside academe. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, Alice Walker and Audre Lorde, but she shows the importance of self-defined knowledge for group empowerment. In the tenth anniversary edition of this award-winning work, Patricia Hill Collins expands the basic arguments of the first edition by adding several important new themes: a new discussion of heterosexism as a system of power, an expanded treatment of images of Black womanhood, U.S. Black feminism's connections to Black Diasporic feminisms, and more attention to the importance of social class and nationalism. In addition, the new edition includes discussion of recent developments in black cultural studies, especially black popular culture, as well as recent events and trends such as the Anita Hill hearings and the backlash against affirmative action. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Cedric J. Robinson. 2000 Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (South End Press Classics, 2). Dan Georgakas, et a. 1998 The Fragmented World of the Social : Essays in Social and Political Philosophy (Suny Series in Social and Political Thought). Axel Honneth, Charles W. Wright (Editor). 1995 The essays in this book weave together insights and arguments from such diverse traditions as German critical theory, French philosophy and social theory, and recent Anglo-American moral and political theory, offering a unique approach to the political and theoretical consequences of the modernism /postmodernism discussion. Through an analysis of central themes in classical Marxism and early critical theory, the author shows how recent work in a variety of traditions converges on the need to question familiar distinctions between material production and culture, the public and the private, and the political and the social, and to reconsider the conceptions of agency and power that have informed them. I Answer With My Life : Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change (Critical Social Thought). Kathleen Casey. 1993 Race, Women, and Revolution: Black Female Militancy and the Praxis of Ella Baker. Joy James. 1999 Without Justice for All : The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality. Adolph L. Reed (Editor) Without Justice for All questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy among American leaders and opinion-makers has contributed to the social stratification and inequality that plagues America today. Contributors look at the history of our social policies since the New Deal, as well as the status of specific policy arenas and political shifts over the past fifty years. Throughout, the central thread is a critical response to a now conventional argument that liberalism must be reconfigured in ways that retreat from immediate identification with the interests of labor, minorities, and the poor. Without Justice for All, written for both students and general readers, is a timely and important contribution to the dialogue on race in modern America. Race Men (W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures). Hazel V. Carby Race men is a term of endearment used by blacks to signify those high-achieving African American men who "represent the race," disproving bigoted notions of black inferiority. In this engaging study, Yale African American Studies Professor Hazel V. Carby seeks to ask "questions about various black masculinities at different historical moments and in different media: literature, photography, film, music, and song." She does so by discussing the lives and works of myriad types of race men. Frederick Douglass's uncompromising fight against slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois's masterful The Souls of Black Folk, Martin Luther King's nonviolent struggles, and Malcolm X's fiery rhetoric articulate the intellectual-political prisms of black activism, for example, while actor Danny Glover represents the dilemma of the black/white sidekick and the fight for a more multidimensional Afro-American image. Carby compares Toussaint L'Ouverture, the ex-slave who liberated Haiti from the French in the 19th century, to Trinidadian writer C.L.R. James, whose Marxist interpretation of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, unveiled the complexities of colonialism, class, and the sexist aspects of radical black leadership. She discusses jazz icon Miles Davis's quest for freedom and his misogynistic persona articulated in his autobiography, then praises science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany's Motion of Light in Water as "an effective counterpoint to Miles ... a magnificent attempt to reject the socially created obstacles separating desire from its material achievement, and in the process demolishing and transcending the limitations of heterosexual norms." Indeed, for Carby the major flaw of race men is that their upholding of "the race" does not prominently address the concerns of African American women as well. --Eugene Holley Jr. From Booklist , September 15, 1998 Carby takes a decidedly feminist view as she examines the social, cultural, and political implications of how white Americans view black men, and how black men react to those visions. The images--and reactions--are linked to the troubled history of black people in the U.S. Despite their relative powerlessness, black men have managed to engender among whites a fear of their potential physical violence and a fascination with their mythic sexual potency. Carby traces reactions by black male writers: W. E. B. Dubois' emphasis on intellect and C. L. R. James' emphasis on sport (particularly cricket) as the arena to do battle with white men. She examines the career of Paul Robeson, beloved for his voice and athleticism, but reviled for his politics. She contrasts the masculinity of Miles Davis, who viewed women as emotional drains, to that of Samuel R. Delaney, whose homosexuality somehow allowed for a more encompassing view of women. Her basic conclusion is that black men are men, who think and act like men, often to the exclusion or even detriment of women's interests. Synopsis-Carby, author of "Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman", offers a searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture. "Race Men" shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. Who are the "race men" standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society - and how they exclude women altogether. Carby begins by looking at images of black masculinity in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Her analysis of The Souls of Black Folk reveals the narrow and rigid code of masculinity that Du Bois applied to racial achievement and advancement - a code that remains implicitly but firmly in place today in the work of celebrated African American male intellectuals. The career of Paul Robeson, the music of Huddie Ledbetter, and the writings of C. L. R. James on cricket and on the Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint L'Ouverture, offer further evidence of the social and political uses of representations of black masculinity. In the music of Miles Davis and the novels of Samuel R. Delany, Carby finds two separate but related challenges to conventions of black masculinity. Examining Hollywood films, she traces through the career of Danny Glover the development of a cultural narrative that promises to resolve racial contradictions by pairing black and white men - still leaving women out of the picture. Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! : Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban American. Robin D. G. Kelley. Beacon Press. 1999 More praise for "Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!" "Kelley's crafted a funny, fast-paced tour of recent and long-standing debates about the quality, form, and function of black life, an interdisciplinary performance that has him kicking up dust across all kinds of boundaries." Village Voice Literary Supplement. "This important, fluid book makes it clear that Kelley's genius is his ability to bring complex ideas down to earth and simultaneously make them transcendent."--Jill Nelson, author of "Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman" The publisher, February 9, 1998 Latest Review Robin G. Kelley's new book was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education: ". . .YO' MAMA's DisFUNKtional!, published last fall by Beacon Press, has been named by The Village Voice as one of the best 25 books of 1997... [It is] Dr. Kelley's first trade book, and the reviews have been positive... Publisher's Weekly called it "eloquent" and "a blast of common sense."" -- Karen J. Winkler, The Chronicle of Higher Education --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title The publisher, February 9, 1998 Latest Review "Kelley . . . has made a name for himself by stressing the importance of day-to-day acts of resistance to racism. . . [He] is masterful in dealing with what he calls the "neo-Enlightenment Left"- Todd Gitlin, Michael Tomasky, and others who argue that "identity politics" are to blame for the left's failures and the ascendancy of rightwing politics. . . Kelley has achieved one purpose, which is to sweep up some rightwing garbage (the "underclass" is ending Western Civilization as we know it) and some neo-left garbage (black people should shut up about racism so that we can deal with the big picture). He's helped clear the dust so that we can see more clearly who's on our side and what we are up against." "I'm warning you, once you open this compact collection of six razor-sharp essays, you're going to have to stand back! Yo' Mama's Disfunktional presents a tight, terse skeletalizing of most, if not all, of the misrepresentations that warp Western society's perceptions of non-White, non-male, non-heterosexual images. And boy, does Kelley pick the bones clean. . .what makes him most outstanding among the "young turks" in his field is his ability to synthesize the unsyncopated, to grasp full hold of those slippery and often under-scrutinized aspects of African American culture and make them gel in the minds of diverse readers. Scholarship that is impressive and impressively lurid, personally political and politically personal." Kamili Anderson, in Black Issues in Higher Education "...[A] provocative and illuminating look at the culture wars in America today. . .written with authority and with an intelligently clear narrative Yo' Mama's Disfunktional smashes the urban tapestry rendered by just about everyone from scientists to the Nation of Islam.--Critic's Choice. "It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley a leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough." The Souls of Black Folk. W. E. B. Dubois, et al. 1903 First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. A collection of 14 essays contain both the academic language of sociology and the rich lyrics of African spirituals, which Du Bois called "sorrow songs" and records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of Black America, and explores the paradoxical "double consciousness" of African-American life. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true. With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. The New York Times Book Review-Sentimental, poetical, picturesque, the acquired logic of the evident attempt to be critically fair-minded is strangely tangled with these racial characteristics and racial rhetoric.