W E B Du Bois And The Africana Rhetoric Of Dealienation

Author : Monique Leslie Akassi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527520851

Get Book

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Africana Rhetoric of Dealienation by Monique Leslie Akassi Pdf

As the rich words from the African proverbs resonate into the twenty-first century regarding the importance of identity and telling the stories of people of African descent through the eyes of the people, the grand rhetorician and griot of the twentieth century Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’s infamous problem remains so today – “the problem of the colour-line.” After the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American president of the United States; after the Civil Rights Movement; after Brown versus the Board of Education; after the students’ right to their own language; after Plessy versus Ferguson; and the murders of innocent, young African American males, including Emmett Till, Timothy Thomas, Trayvon Martin, John Crawford III, Tamir Rice, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown, people of African descent are still battling with being labelled a “problem in one’s own country” while the USA continues to strive for a post-racial era. W.E.B. Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives in general are more relevant today than ever in reassessing what he so eloquently describes and unveils through the phrase “double consciousness” in Souls of Black Folk (1903), through which he reveals the feeling of a problem. This ground-breaking volume, featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois’s great-grandson, Arthur McFarlane II, among others, is organized into three parts. Part I focuses on the foundation of Du Bois’s Africana Rhetoric through the origins of Africana Studies, Pan Africanism, and Africana Critical Theory. Part II focuses on Du Bois’s rhetorical strategies and rhetorical analyses in his scholarship and life. Part III focuses on gender and sexuality in Du Bois’s selected works. This work, the first of its kind devoted exclusively to Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives—can serve as a blueprint for today as the struggle toward a post racial society continues.

Author : Charisse Burden-Stelly,Gerald Horne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440864971

Get Book

W.E.B. Du Bois by Charisse Burden-Stelly,Gerald Horne Pdf

This book provides a new interpretation of the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most important African American scholars and thinkers of the 20th century. This revealing biography captures the full life of W.E.B. Du Bois—historian, sociologist, author, editor, and a leader in the fight to bring African Americans more fully into the American landscape as well as a forceful proponent of their leaving America altogether and returning to Africa. Drawing on extensive research and including new primary documents, sidebars, and analysis, Gerald Horne and Charisse Burden-Stelly offer a portrait of this remarkable man, paying special attention to the often-overlooked radical decades at the end of Du Bois's life. The book also highlights Du Bois's relationships with and influence on civil rights activists, intellectuals, and freedom fighters, among them Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Louise Thompson Patterson, William Alphaeus Hunton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The biography includes a selection of primary source documents, including personal letters, speeches, poems, and newspaper articles, that provide insight into Du Bois's life based on his own words and analysis.

Author : Edward Carson,Gerald Horne,Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000088205

Get Book

Socialism and Democracy in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Life, Thought, and Legacy by Edward Carson,Gerald Horne,Phillip Luke Sinitiere Pdf

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s birth, the chapters in this book reflect on the local, national, and international significance of his remarkable life and legacy in relation to his specific commitments to socialism and democracy. Written with contemporary conditions in mind, such as the current political period of economic inequality, the debilitating reality of exploitative economic conditions, an expansive and invasive surveillance state, the grotesque injustice of the prison industrial complex, the ongoing crisis of police violence and the militarization of law enforcement, and a White House unashamedly spewing white supremacist, nationalist rhetoric in word and deed, this book collectively ponders how Du Bois’s radicalism can shape and re-texture historical understanding and underscore a reflective urgency about the future. In this volume, scholars and activists undertake thoughtful and analytical explorations with regards to how Du Bois’ commitments to socialism and democracy can inform current methodology and praxis. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy.

Author : Anna Klosowska,Catherine E. Karkov,Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781950192755

Get Book

Disturbing Times by Anna Klosowska,Catherine E. Karkov,Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei Pdf

From Kehinde Wiley to W.E.B. Du Bois, from Nubia to Cuba, Willie Doherty's terror in ancient landscapes to the violence of institutional Neo-Gothic, Reagan's AIDS policies to Beowulf fanfiction, this richly diverse volume brings together art historians and literature scholars to articulate a more inclusive, intersectional medieval studies. It will be of interest to students working on the diaspora and migration, white settler colonialism and pogroms, Indigenous studies and decolonial methodology, slavery, genocide, and culturecide. The authors confront the often disturbing legacies of medieval studies and its current failures to own up to those, and also analyze fascist, nationalist, colonialist, anti-Semitic, and other ideologies to which the medieval has been and is yoked, collectively formulating concrete ethical choices and aims for future research and teaching.In the face of rising global fascism and related ideological mobilizations, contemporary and past, and of cultural heritage and history as weapons of symbolic and physical oppression, this volume's chapters on Byzantium, Medieval Nubia, Old English, Hebrew, Old French, Occitan, and American and European medievalisms examine how educational institutions, museums, universities, and individuals are shaped by ethics and various ideologies in research, collecting, and teaching.

Author : Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810140349

Get Book

Citizen of the World by Phillip Luke Sinitiere Pdf

In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, published when W. E. B. Du Bois was eighty-three years old, the brilliant black scholar announced that he was a “citizen of the world.” Citizen of the World chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois’s final three decades between the 1930s and 1960s. It maps his extraordinarily active and productive latter years to social, cultural, and political transformations across the globe. From his birth in 1868 until his death in 1963, Du Bois sought the liberation of black people in the United States and across the world through intellectual and political labor. His tireless efforts documented and demonstrated connections between freedom for African-descended people abroad and black freedom at home. In concert with growing scholarship on his twilight years, the essays in this volume assert the fundamental importance of considering Du Bois’s later decades not as a life in decline that descended into blind ideological allegiance to socialism and communism but as the life of a productive, generative intellectual who responded rationally, imaginatively, and radically to massive mid-century changes around the world, and who remained committed to freedom’s realization until his final hour.

Author : Monique Akassi,Nikki Giovanni,Jennifer West,Kimetta Hairston,Lynne Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692270337

Get Book

Journal of Africana Composition and Rhetoric by Monique Akassi,Nikki Giovanni,Jennifer West,Kimetta Hairston,Lynne Long Pdf

Journal of Africana Composition and Rhetoric Special Edition: "Finding Our Voices Through Nikki Giovanni," with a Preface By Nikki Giovanni

Author : Bjorn F. Stillion Southard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496823717

Get Book

Peculiar Rhetoric by Bjorn F. Stillion Southard Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America’s borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard indicates how politics and identity were negotiated amid the intense public debate on race, slavery, and freedom in America. Operating from a position of power, white advocates argued that colonization was worthy of massive support from the federal government. Stillion Southard pores over the speeches of Henry Clay, Elias B. Caldwell, and Abraham Lincoln, which engaged with colonization during its active deliberation. Between Clay’s and Caldwell’s speeches at the founding of the American Colonization Society (ACS) in 1816 and Lincoln’s final public effort to encourage colonization in 1862, Stillion Southard analyzes the little-known speeches and writings of free blacks who wrestled with colonization’s conditional promises of freedom. He examines an array of discourses to probe the complex issues of identity confronting free blacks who attempted to meaningfully engage in colonization efforts. From a peculiarly voiced “Counter Memorial” against the ACS to the letters of wealthy black merchant Louis Sheridan negotiating for his passage to Liberia to the civically minded orations of Hilary Teage in Liberia, Stillion Southard brings to light the intricate rhetoric of blacks who addressed colonization to Africa.

Author : Bernard W. Bell,Emily Grosholz,James Benjamin Stewart
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415915570

Get Book

W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture by Bernard W. Bell,Emily Grosholz,James Benjamin Stewart Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dexter B. Gordon
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 080932735X

Get Book

Black Identity by Dexter B. Gordon Pdf

Exploring the role of rhetoric in African American identity and political discourse Dexter B. Gordon' s Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States. Faced with alienation and disenfranchisement as a part of their daily experience, African Americans developed collective practices of empowerment that cohere as a constitutive rhetoric of black ideology. Exploring the origins of that rhetoric, Gordon reveals how the ideology of black nationalism functions in contemporary African American political discourse. Rooting his study in the words and works of nineteenth-century black abolitionists such as Maria Stewart, David Walker, and Henry Garnet, Gordon explores the rapprochement between rhetorical theory, race, alienation, and the role of public memory in identity formation. He argues that abolitionists used language in their speeches, pamphlets, letters, petitions, and broadsides that established black identity in ways that would foster liberation and empowerment. The arguments presented here constitute the only sustained treatment of nineteenth-century black activists from a rhetorical perspective. Gordon demonstrates the pivotal role of rhetoric in African American efforts to create a viable public voice. Understanding nineteenth-century black alienation-- and its intersection with twentieth-century racism-- is crucial to understanding the continued sense of alienation that African Americans express about their American experience. Gordon explains how the ideology of black nationalism disciplines and describes African American life for its own ends, exposing a central piece of the ideological struggle for the soul of America. The book is both a platform for further discussion and an invitation for more voices to join the discourse as we search for ways to comprehend the sense of alienation experienced and expressed by African Americans in contemporary society.

Author : Mark Greif
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691173290

Get Book

The Age of the Crisis of Man by Mark Greif Pdf

Introduction: the "crisis of man" as obscurity and re-enlightenment -- Currents through the War -- The end of the War and after -- Transmission -- Criticism and the literary crisis of man -- Studies in fiction -- Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison: man and history, the questions -- Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow: history and man, the answers -- Flannery O'Connor and faith -- Thomas Pynchon and technology -- Transmutation -- The Sixties as big bang -- Universal philosophy and antihumanist theory -- Conclusion: moral history and the twentieth century.

Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739128862

Get Book

Africana Critical Theory by Reiland Rabaka Pdf

Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory. With chapters on W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Negritude (Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor), Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral, Africana Critical Theory endeavors to accessibly offer contemporary critical theorists an intellectual archaeology of the Africana tradition of critical theory and a much-needed dialectical deconstruction and reconstruction of black radical politics. These six seminal figures' collective thought and texts clearly cuts across several disciplines and, therefore, closes the chasm between Africana Studies and critical theory, constantly demanding that intellectuals not simply think deep thoughts, develop new theories, and theoretically support radical politics, but be and constantly become political activists, social organizers and cultural workers - that is, folk the Italian critical theorist Antonio Gramsci referred to as 'organic intellectuals.' In this sense, then, the series of studies gathered in Africana Critical Theory contribute not only to African Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, but also to contemporary critical theoretical discourse across an amazingly wide-range of 'traditional' disciplines, and radical political activism outside of (and, in many instances, absolutely against) Europe's ivory towers and the absurdities of the American academy.

Author : John O. Ward
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004368071

Get Book

Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages by John O. Ward Pdf

Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward’s much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture.

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044575756

Get Book

African Americans and the Law by Paul Finkelman Pdf

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Online databases
ISBN : UOM:39015078349100

Get Book

Sociological Abstracts by Leo P. Chall Pdf

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39015072491635

Get Book

West Africa by Anonim Pdf