Origins Of The African American Jeremiad

Author : Willie J. Harrell, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488315

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Origins of the African American Jeremiad by Willie J. Harrell, Jr. Pdf

In the moralistic texts of jeremiadic discourse, authors lament the condition of society, utilizing prophecy as a means of predicting its demise. This study delves beneath the socio-religious and cultural exterior of the American jeremiadic tradition to unveil the complexities of African American jeremiadic rhetoric in antebellum America. It examines the development of the tradition in response to slavery, explores its contributions to the antebellum social protest writings of African Americans, and evaluates the role of the jeremiad in the growth of an African American literary genre. Despite its situation within an unreceptive environment, the African American jeremiad maintained its power, continuing to influence contemporary African American literary and cultural traditions.

Author : David Howard-Pitney
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592134151

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African American Jeremiad Rev by David Howard-Pitney Pdf

Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate and persuasive essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. Showing that black leaders have employed this verbal tradition of protest and social prophecy in a way that is specifically African-American, David Howard-Pitney examines the jeremiads of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E. B. DuBois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, as well as more contemporary figures such as Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes. This revised and expanded edition demonstrates that the African American jeremiad is a still vibrant tradition, serving as a barometer of faith in America's perfectibility and hope for social justice. Features: a new chapter on Malcolm X updated discussion of Jesse Jackson new discussion of Alan Keyes

Author : David Howard-Pitney
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1592133282

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African American Jeremiad Rev by David Howard-Pitney Pdf

Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate and persuasive essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. Showing that black leaders have employed this verbal tradition of protest and social prophecy in a way that is specifically African American, David Howard-Pitney examines the jeremiads of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, as well as more contemporary figures such as Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes. This revised and expanded edition demonstrates that the African American jeremiad is still vibrant, serving as a barometer of faith in America's perfectibility and hope for social justice.This new edition features: * A new chapter on Malcolm X * An updated discussion of Jesse Jackson * A new discussion of Alan Keyes

Author : Paul Goetsch,Gerd Hurm
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American literature
ISBN : 3823344846

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The Fourth of July by Paul Goetsch,Gerd Hurm Pdf

Author : Andre E. Johnson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496830685

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No Future in This Country by Andre E. Johnson Pdf

No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner is a history of the career of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915), specifically focusing on his work from 1896 to 1915. Drawing on the copious amount of material from Turner’s speeches, editorial, and open and private letters, Andre E. Johnson tells a story of how Turner provided rhetorical leadership during a period in which America defaulted on many of the rights and privileges gained for African Americans during Reconstruction. Unlike many of his contemporaries during this period, Turner did not opt to proclaim an optimistic view of race relations. Instead, Johnson argues that Turner adopted a prophetic persona of a pessimistic prophet who not only spoke truth to power but, in so doing, also challenged and pushed African Americans to believe in themselves. At this time in his life, Turner had no confidence in American institutions or that the American people would live up to the promises outlined in their sacred documents. While he argued that emigration was the only way for African Americans to retain their “personhood” status, he also would come to believe that African Americans would never emigrate to Africa. He argued that many African Americans were so oppressed and so stripped of agency because they were surrounded by continued negative assessments of their personhood that belief in emigration was not possible. Turner’s position limited his rhetorical options, but by adopting a pessimistic prophetic voice that bore witness to the atrocities African Americans faced, Turner found space for his oratory, which reflected itself within the lament tradition of prophecy.

Author : Bernard W. Bell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814337158

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Bearing Witness to African American Literature by Bernard W. Bell Pdf

An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.

Author : Benjamin Fagan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African American newspapers
ISBN : 9780820349404

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The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation by Benjamin Fagan Pdf

Benjamin Fagan shows how the early black press helped shape the relationship between black chosenness and the struggles for black freedom and equality in America, in the process transforming the very notion of a chosen American nation.

Author : Jill Hicks-Keeton,Cavan Concannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978702837

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The Museum of the Bible by Jill Hicks-Keeton,Cavan Concannon Pdf

Bringing together nationally and internationally-known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary positions, including biblical studies, history, archaeology, Judaic studies, and religion and public life. The Museum of the Bible is poised to wield unparalleled influence on the national popular imagination of the Bible’s contents, history, and uses through time. This volume provides critical tools by which a broad public of scholars and students alike can assess the Museum of the Bible’s presentation of its vast collection and wrestle with the thorny interpretive issues and complex histories that are at risk of being obscured when private funds put a major museum near the National Mall.

Author : Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300244915

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African Americans and Africa by Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden Pdf

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.

Author : Paul Gutjahr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190684839

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The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America by Paul Gutjahr Pdf

Early Americans have long been considered "A People of the Book" Because the nickname was coined primarily to invoke close associations between Americans and the Bible, it is easy to overlook the central fact that it was a book-not a geographic location, a monarch, or even a shared language-that has served as a cornerstone in countless investigations into the formation and fragmentation of early American culture. Few books can lay claim to such powers of civilization-altering influence. Among those which can are sacred books, and for Americans principal among such books stands the Bible. This Handbook is designed to address a noticeable void in resources focused on analyzing the Bible in America in various historical moments and in relationship to specific institutions and cultural expressions. It takes seriously the fact that the Bible is both a physical object that has exercised considerable totemic power, as well as a text with a powerful intellectual design that has inspired everything from national religious and educational practices to a wide spectrum of artistic endeavors to our nation's politics and foreign policy. This Handbook brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview--rich with bibliographic resources--to those interested in the Bible's role in American cultural formation.

Author : John D. Carlson,Jonathan H. Ebel
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520271661

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From Jeremiad to Jihad by John D. Carlson,Jonathan H. Ebel Pdf

Violence has been a central feature of America’s history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through religious texts, symbols, rituals, and ideas. Yet too often the religious dimensions of violence, especially in the American context, are ignored or overstated—in either case, poorly understood. From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America corrects these misunderstandings. Charting and interpreting the tendrils of religion and violence, this book reveals how formative moments of their intersection in American history have influenced the ideas, institutions, and identities associated with the United States. Religion and violence provide crucial yet underutilized lenses for seeing America anew—including its outlook on, and relation to, the world.

Author : Kenyon Gradert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226694160

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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination by Kenyon Gradert Pdf

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.

Author : Jasmine L. Holmes
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493433711

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Carved in Ebony by Jasmine L. Holmes Pdf

Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sara Griffith Stanley, Amanda Berry Smith, Lucy Craft Laney, Maria Stewart, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper These names may not be familiar, but each one of these women was a shining beacon of devotion in a world that did not value their lives. They worked to change laws, built schools, spoke to thousands, shared the Gospel around the world. And while history books may have forgotten them, their stories can teach us so much about what it means to be modern women of faith. Through the research and reflections of author Jasmine Holmes, you will be inspired by what each of these exceptional women can teach us about the intersections of faith and education, birth, privilege, opportunity, and so much more. Carved in Ebony will take you past the predominantly white, male contributions that seemingly dominate history books and church history to discover how Black women have been some of the main figures in defining the landscape of American history and faith. Join Jasmine on this journey of illuminating these women--God's image-bearers, carved in ebony.

Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674002768

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The Harvard Guide to African-American History by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Pdf

Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

Author : Michael-John DePalma,Paul Lynch,Jeffrey M. Ringer
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809339167

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Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-first Century by Michael-John DePalma,Paul Lynch,Jeffrey M. Ringer Pdf

One of few volumes to include multiple traditions in one conversation, Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century engages with religious discourses and issues that continue to shape public life in the United States. This collection of essays centralizes the study of religious persuasion and pluralism, considers religion's place in U.S. society, and expands the study of rhetoric and religion in generative ways.