The Black Consciousness Reader

Author : Baldwin Ndaba,Therese Owen,Masego Panyane,Rabbie Sermula,Janet Smith
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781682191729

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The Black Consciousness Reader by Baldwin Ndaba,Therese Owen,Masego Panyane,Rabbie Sermula,Janet Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 1431430668

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The Black Consciousness Reader by Anonim Pdf

Author : Baldwin Comp-Ndaba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1431426482

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Black Consciousness Reader by Baldwin Comp-Ndaba Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa
ISBN : 1431426490

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The Black Consciousness Reader by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lewis R. Gordon
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781250862914

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Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon Pdf

Lewis R. Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher. Fear of Black Consciousness is an original and a bold intervention in the cultural and political conversation about systemic racism. Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and antiblackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized blackness, the problems racialization produces, and the many creative responses from black and nonblack communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom. As he skillfully navigates the difficult and traumatic terrain, Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates. He illuminates the different forms of invisibility that define black life, and he exposes the bad faith at the heart of many discussions about race and racism, not only in North America but also across the globe, including in countries where discussants regard themselves as “colorblind.” Gordon reveals that these lies about race and its supposed irrelevance confer upon many white people an inherited sense of being extraordinary. More than being privileged or entitled, they act with a license to do as they please. But for many if not most blacks, living an ordinary life in a white-dominated society is an extraordinary achievement. Informed by Gordon’s upbringing in Jamaica and the Bronx, and taking as touchstones the pandemic and the uprisings against police violence, Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking book that positions Black consciousness as a political commitment and creative practice, richly layered through art, love, and revolutionary action. It is sure to provoke, challenge, and inspire.

Author : Lawrence W. Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0195023749

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Black Culture and Black Consciousness by Lawrence W. Levine Pdf

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

Author : Brian Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135370039

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Just My Soul Responding by Brian Ward Pdf

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.

Author : Steve Biko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Black nationalism
ISBN : UVA:X000075989

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Black Consciousness in South Africa by Steve Biko Pdf

Court transcripts of South African activist Steve Biko; includes background information.

Author : Traci D. Wyatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1646543556

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Steve Biko by Traci D. Wyatt Pdf

During the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, black college students in South Africa became frustrated with apartheid, Bantu education policy, Bantustans, white liberal organizations, and European-branded Christianity. Their anger with white nationalism under apartheid caused them to mobilize, rise up, and fight against systemic oppression for their liberation. The timing was pregnant with purpose for the new generation of leaders to rise since the ANC and PAC were banned, creating an aboveground silence amongst black anti-apartheid revolutionaries. The reader will be lured into the struggle, blood, loss, tears, and victories of blacks fighting against apartheid in South Africa. Readers will learn about the ideology and way of life adopted by black youth known as black consciousness. The book analyzes how students became so devoted in their beliefs and application of the tenets of black consciousness that it was likened to the gospel message. It describes how the teachings of black consciousness were used as psychological weapons of war to liberate the minds of blacks, white liberals, and the white apartheid regime. The primary focus of this book is on the life, message, and journey of BC's preeminent leader, Steve Biko, who led the radical movement along with his colleagues to empower his people and encourage the nation to seek and possess truer humanity. His message takes center stage while his life takes several unexpected turns as the system hunts him down. However, the most controversial yet surprising component of this work would be the comparison of Biko's life and death with Jesus's life and death at Calvary-from the cradle to the grave. Though Biko was not necessarily a professed Christian, his life's work and message make chilling parallels to the life of Jesus Christ, which are captured here. This book is bound to awaken the soul and mind of the reader as they become raptured in the intersectionality of race, justice, and faith.

Author : Jenni Ramone
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137569349

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Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace by Jenni Ramone Pdf

This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert the significance of local, not global meanings. The book offers longer case studies on novels that stage important reading moments: Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps (1953), Leonardo Padura’s Adios, Hemingway (2001), Tabish Khair’s Filming (2007), Chibundhu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos (2017), and Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016). Chapters argue that while India’s literary market was disrupted by Partition, literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to exploitation of Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts that foreground reading spaces; in Nigeria, the market hosts meeting, negotiation, reflection, and trade, including the writer’s trade; while Black consciousness bookshops and writing in Britain operated to challenge the UK literary market, a project still underway. This book is a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It insists on ‘located reading’, enabling close reading of world literatures sited in their local materialities.

Author : Mae G. Henderson,Charlene B. Regester
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476665818

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The Josephine Baker Critical Reader by Mae G. Henderson,Charlene B. Regester Pdf

Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death. This new collection of essays interprets Baker's life in the context of modernism, feminism, race, gender and sexuality. The contributors focus on various aspects of her life and career, including her performances and public reception, civil rights efforts, the architecture of her unbuilt house, and her modern-day "afterlife."

Author : Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson Asheeke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009346672

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Arming Black Consciousness by Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson Asheeke Pdf

Since 1994, as the ruling party in South Africa, the ANC have become synonymous with and indivisible from the fight against apartheid rule. This has left little space for competing accounts, visions, and political projects to find their appropriate place in the historical narrative. In this innovative book, Toivo Asheeke moves beyond these well-trodden histories, to tell the previously neglected story of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), a militant revolutionary nationalist wing of the anti-colonial struggle. Using archival sources from four countries and interviews with former veterans of the movement, Asheeke explores the BCM's engagement with guerrilla warfare, community feminism and Black Internationalism. Uncovering the personal and political histories of those who have previously received scant scholarly attention, Asheeke both illuminates the history of Africa's decolonization struggle and that of the wider Cold War.

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Pieter Hendrik Coetzee,A. P. J. Roux
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415189055

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The African Philosophy Reader by Pieter Hendrik Coetzee,A. P. J. Roux Pdf

This collection provides a thorough introduction to African philosophy, literature, religion and anthropology through twenty-five readings from key thinkers. They discuss topics such as African culture, epistemology, metaphysics and religion, political philosophy, aesthetics, and explore rationality and explanation in an African context.

Author : Steve Biko
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770105591

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The Testimony of Steve Biko by Steve Biko Pdf

What comes first to mind when one thinks of political trials in South Africa are the Rivonia Trial of 1956–61 and the Treason Trial of 1963–64. Rarely, if ever, is the 1976 SASO/BPC trial mentioned in the same breath and yet it was perhaps the most political trial of all. The defendants, all members of the South African Students Organisation, or the Black People’s Convention, were in the dock for having the temerity to think; to have opinions; to envisage a more just and humane society. It was a trial about ideas, but as it unfolded it became a trial of the entire philosophy of Black Consciousness and those who championed its cause. On 2 May 1976, senior counsel for the defence in the trial of nine black activists in Pretoria called to the witness stand Stephen Bantu Biko. Although Biko was known to the authorities, and indeed was serving a banning order, not much about the man was known by anyone outside of his colleagues and the Black Consciousness Movement. That was about to change with his appearance as a witness in the SASO/BPC case. He entered the courtroom known to some, but after his four-day testimony he left as a celebrity known to all.