Despite the command from Christ to love your neighbour, Western Christianity has continued to be afflicted by the evil of racism and the acts of violence that accompany it. Through a systems theoretical and deconstructive account of religion and the political theology of St. Paul, this book traces how the racism and violence of modern Western Christianity is a symptom of its failure to secure its own myth of sovereignty within a complex world of plurality. Divided into three sections, the book...
In 2006, I wrote Gil Scott-Heron while he was incarcerated in Collins Correctional Facility. In his response, he told me to always write and to share my words with the world. Shortly thereafter, I created my blog, Just My Thoughts. For almost a decade ive utilized that blog as a personal journal to document my experiences growing as a black woman in Baltimore, MD. This book is a adaption of that blog. Thank you for reading.
De Remnant Truth
by Robert Wilton Burton, Jake Mitchell, Kathryn Sport, and Bert Hitchcock
Don't Hate Because My Melanin Makes Forty Look So Great
by Karen Prints
Beckett in Black and Red (Irish Literature, History & Culture S.) (Irish Literature, History, and Culture)
by Alan Warren Friedman
Samuel Beckett's role as translator of Cunard's Negro has traditionally seen as apolitical. In this work Friedman argues that his role resulted from his support for the causes espoused in Negro, racial justice and equality, and the belief that these could only be achieved through communism.
Army Life in a Black Regiment (Civil War) (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail the enlistment of black soldiers, which he had earlier resisted as "revolutionary," as the "heaviest blow yet dealt the rebellion." The abolition of slavery, unthinkable in 1861, w...
George Floyd Coloring Book for Adults (George Floyd Coloring Books, #0)
by Justine Justice
First published in 1982, Black Sportsmen examines the effect that race has had on sportspeople. The book is based on interviews with a wide range of sportspeople from Olympic athletes to schoolchildren and novices. Written at a time when many black youths were turning to, and succeeding in sports such as athletics, boxing, football, karate and table tennis, this book focuses on the various ways in which black sports competitors reacted to their blackness.
Africana Studies
As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline’s theoretical paths. The essays in Africana Studies focus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and music; the crisis of the state; issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism; and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to this volume open exciting avenues for new narratives,...
The Eye of the Needle (The Africa List - (Seagull titles CHUP)) (The Africa List)
by Richard Turner and Tony Morphet
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by the events of 1968, and returned to South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement. His work was forceful and revolutionary, causing him to be banned, confined to his home, and eventually assassinated by state s...
In this classic work the famous communist activist, who was jailed for her beliefs, brings her passion and scholarship to confront three major crucial issues of feminism: women, race and class.
Conscience in Politics (Contemporary Issues in European Politics)
First published in 1996.What Jurg Steiner has done with this book takes more than a pinch of professional courage. He is asking us to consider seriously the possibility that politicians make choices of conscience daily and that such choices frequently override considerations of partisanship and personal advantage.
Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. From her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria,...
The Nigger Question and the Negro Question
by Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill
Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise (Critical Africana Studies)
by Christel N Temple
Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007), have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that comprehensively defines and models literary praxis from the vantage point of Africana Studies....