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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings - Contributions by Mumia Abu-Jamal; Richard Allen; Molefi Kete Asante; James Baldwin; Amiri Baraka; Edward Wilmot Blyden; Cyril V. Briggs; Stokely Carmichael; Frederick Douglass; William Edward Burghardt Du Boi Klappentext This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period of black history. The selections represent a broad spectrum of ideology. Conservative, radical, nationalistic, and integrationist approaches can be found in almost every period, yet there have been striking shifts in the evolution of social thought and activism. The editors judiciously illustrate how both continuity and change affected the African-American community in terms of its internal divisions, class structure, migration, social problems, leadership, and protest movements. They also show how gender, spirituality, literature, music, and connections to Africa and the Caribbean played a prominent role in black life and history. Zusammenfassung One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Preface to the First Edition Part 2 Preface to the Second Edition Part 3 Introduction: Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the Black Experience Part 4 Section 1. Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1768-1861 Part 5 1. "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Part 6 2. "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" Part 7 3. "Thus Doth Ethiopia Stretch Forth Her Hand from Slavery, to Freedom and Equality" Part 8 4. The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Part 9 5. David Walker's "Appeal," 1829-1830 Part 10 6. The Statement of Nat Turner, 1831 Part 11 7. Slaves are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law Part 12 8. "What If I Am a Woman?" Part 13 9. A Slave Denied the Rights to Marry, Letter of Milo Thompson, Slave, 1834 Part 14 10. The Selling of Slaves, Advertisement, 1835 Part 15 11. Solomon Northrup Describes a New Orleans Slave Auction, 1841 Part 16 12. Cinque and the Amistad Revolt, 1841 Part 17 13. "Let Your Motto Be Resistance!" Part 18 14. "Slavery as It Is" Part 19 15. "A'nt' I a Woman?" Part 20 16. "A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West" Part 21 17. A Black Nationalist Manifesto Part 22 18. "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Part 23 19. "No Rights That a White Man Is Bound to Respect:" The Dred Scott Case and Its Aftermath Part 24 20. "Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions" Part 25 21. The Spirituals: "Go Down Moses" and "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" Part 26 Section 2. Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915 Part 28 1. "What the Black Man Wants" Part 29 2. Henry McNeal Turner, Black Christian Nationalist Part 30 3. Black Urban Workers during Reconstruction Chapter 31 Anonymous Document on the National Colored Labor Convention, 1869 Chapter 32 New York Tribune Article on African-American Workers, 1870 Part 33 4. "Labor and Capital Are In Deadly Conflict" Part 34 5. Edward Wilmot Blyden and the African Diaspora Part 35 6. "The Democratic Idea Is Humanity" Part 36 7. "A Voice from the South" Part 37 8. The National Association of Colored Women: Mary Church Terrell and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Part 38 9. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Part 39 10. Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation Chapter 40 "Atlanta Exposition Address" Chapter 41 "My View of Segregation Laws" Part 42 11. William Monroe Trotter and...
