Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle - A Freedom Gaze

Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze describes the ideas that defined the movement and struggle to be free by Black people in the United States during their Modern Era. Using a historical perspective, this work engages the question of how the historical experience of oppression and the denial of humanity created space for the development of a certain consciousness. The existence and demonstration of agency within the ideas of the African diaspora and the creation of an intentional community with the aim of defining and attaining freedom are dissected in order to understand the Black community as a whole during the modern era.

This book was nominated for ¿the 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in nonfiction.

About the author

Anthony Sean Neal is Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Humanities Professor and faculty fellow in the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University.

Summary

Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze analyzes the ways oppression and marginalization produced the philosophical space necessary for the development of a unique form of Black consciousness within the African Diaspora.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Sean Neal
• Assisted by: Harris Leonard (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781793640536
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-053-6
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social and cultural history, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Relating to African American / Black American people, freedom gazing