The Roots Of African American Identity

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0312218362

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The Roots of African-American Identity by NA NA Pdf

Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Roots of African-American Identity focuses on the lives of African Americans in the nominally free northern and western states. This book explores how a group of marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity that informed popular African American historical consciousness. Elizabeth Rauh Bethel examines the way in which that consciousness fueled collective efforts to claim and live a promised but undelivered democratic freedom, helping readers to understand how African Americans reformulated and perceived their collective past. Bethel also reveals how this vision of freedom and historical consciousness shaped African American participation in the Reconstruction, formed the spiritual and ideological foundation for the modern Pan-African movement, and provided the historical legacy for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Comprehensive and engaging, The Roots of African-American Identity is an absorbing account of an often overlooked part of American history.

Author : Elizabeth Rauh Bethel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 033371671X

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The Roots of African-American Identity by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel Pdf

Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, Bethel focuses on the lives of African Americans living in the nominally free northern and western states. Examining race and the construction of a politicized racial identity, this book explores how a group of fundamentally marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity which informed popular African American historical consciousness. The vision of freedom and historical consciousness this population crafted shaped post-1865 African American participation in Reconstruction, formed the spiritual and ideological foundation for the modern Pan-African movement and provided the historical legacy for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Author : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521004373

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Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman Pdf

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.

Author : Patrick Rael
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807875032

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Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North by Patrick Rael Pdf

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery.

Author : Elizabeth Rauh Bethel
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1417706767

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Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum C by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel Pdf

Explores how a group of marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity that informed popular African American historical consciousness.

Author : Clare Corbould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674032624

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Becoming African Americans by Clare Corbould Pdf

In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency for some decades. Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Following the great migration of black southerners to northern cities after World War I, the search for roots and for meaningful affiliations became subjects of debate and display in a growing black public sphere. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. In plays, pageants, dance, music, film, literature, and the visual arts, they aimed to give stature and solidity to the American black community through a new awareness of the African past and the international black world. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.

Author : Jas M. Sullivan,Ashraf Esmail
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739171752

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African American Identity by Jas M. Sullivan,Ashraf Esmail Pdf

Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what African American racial identity means, how we may go about quantifying it, what the factors are in shaping identity development, and what effects racial identity has on psychological, political, educational, and health-related behavior. African American Identity aims to continue the conversation, rather than provide a beginning or an end. It is an in-depth study which uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods to explore the relationship between racial identity and psychological well-being, effects on parents and children, physical health, and related educational behavior. From these vantage points, Sullivan and Esmail provide a unique opportunity to further our understanding, extend our knowledge, and continue the debate.

Author : Leslie M. Alexander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252078538

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African Or American? by Leslie M. Alexander Pdf

The struggle for black identity in antebellum New York

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807861714

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Exchanging Our Country Marks by Michael A. Gomez Pdf

The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge. After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.

Author : Allyson Hobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674368101

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A Chosen Exile by Allyson Hobbs Pdf

Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.

Author : Judith Weisenfeld
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479865857

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New World A-Coming by Judith Weisenfeld Pdf

"When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute "Ethiopian Hebrew." "God did not make us Negroes," declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement, and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld argues that the appeal of these groups lay not only in the new religious opportunities membership provided, but also in the novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity. Arguing that members of these groups understood their religious and racial identities as divinely-ordained and inseparable, the book examines how this sense of self shaped their conceptions of their bodies, families, religious and social communities, space and place, and political sensibilities. Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight the experiences of average members."--Publisher's description.

Author : Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879574

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Black Power by Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar Pdf

"The best account of the Black Panther Party in print... this is an outstanding work." -- Choice

Author : Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : William D. Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313014178

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Black History and Black Identity by William D. Wright Pdf

This study contends that historians and intellectuals failed to understand the difference between race and ethnicity, which has in turn impaired their ability to understand who Black people are in America. The author argues that Black Americans are to be distinguished from other categories of black people in the country: black Africans, West Indians, or Hispanics. While Black people are members of the black race, as are other groups of people, they are a distinct ethnic group of that race. This conceptual failure has hampered the ability of historians to define Black experience in America and to study it in the most accurate, authentic, and realistic manner possible. This confusing situation is aggravated further by the fact that many scholars tend to describe Black people in an arbitrary manner, as Africans, African Americans, Afro-Americans, black or Black, which is insufficient for precision. They sometimes downplay the historical evidence regarding African identity, and the identity of Blacks in America. Wright offers a new methodological basis for undertaking Black history: namely, the framework of historical sociology. He argues that this approach will produce a more useful history for Black people and others in America.

Author : Al Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781435701618

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African American: Readings in History and Identity by Al Smith Pdf