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Keizer, Arlene R. "Gone Astray in the Flesh: Kara Walker, Black Women Writers, and African American Postmemory." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (October 2008): 1649–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1649.
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In the vigorous debate over Kara Walker's art—in particular, her life-size, black-on-white depictions of psychosexual fantasies seeded by American slavery—much attention has been paid to the objections raised by African American artists belonging to a generation older than Walker's. These older artists, including Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, and Howardena Pindell, as well as commentators like Juliette Bowles, are often highlighted as Walker's main detractors, rendering the attack on her work a form of internecine, intergenerational warfare in African American intellectual and cultural life. This articulation of the debate obscures the extent to which themes and figures in Walker's oeuvre link it to the work of numerous African American women whose writing began to appear in the early 1970s. Walker is connected to literary counterparts like Gayl Jones, Carolivia Herron, Alice Randall, and Octavia Butler through her construction of characters marked by their sexual involvement with the master class. How these characters manage a set of exploitative relationships—in other words, how they explore their sexualities in the context of coercion—establishes them as a literary and visual sisterhood. Because Walker's silhouettes and other creations have been exhibited to large, integrated audiences in some of the most august international and domestic museums, they have provoked more comment and wider protests than the novels of contemporary African American women writers, but the differences in cultural reception mask the deep similarity between these bodies of work.
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Newman, Richard. "Early Black Thought Leaders and the Reframing of American Intellectual History." Journal of the Early Republic 43, no. 4 (December 2023): 631–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.a915166.
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Abstract: This essay examines the broad impact of African American thought leadership on early American intellectual history. Though marginalized in many mainstream histories of American intellectual life–which often focus on the emergence of Black philosophers and Black professional historians later in the 19th century -- early national Black thinkers helped shape public understanding of critical ideas in American society and politics, including the meaning of citizenship and civil rights, emancipation and equality, and racial justice. African Americans also influenced public discourses on other key topics in American intellectual life, including the nature of human dignity and spiritual redemption in the Second Great Awakening, the meaning of Romanticism and Transcendentalism in American reform culture, and the authority of science and technology in antebellum society. Using the concept of thought leadership as a framing device to understand the power and impact of early Black ideas, I follow recent trends in the field of African American intellectual history that focus on that way that African American men and women became public authorities on key ideas and issues in American culture between the American Revolution and Civil War. Though they did not often occupy positions of educational, institutional, or legal power (the main provinces of intellectual leadership), Black thought leaders had a significant impact on early American intellectual history.
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Masse, Guirdex. "Mercer Cook: A Life in Motion." Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men 10, no. 2 (March 2023): 27–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/spectrum.10.2.03.
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ABSTRACT: This article traces the intellectual trajectory and trans-national engagements of a key African American scholar and diplomat: Dr. Will Mercer Cook (1903–1987). From the 1930s to the 1960s, Mercer Cook was the foremost American authority on Black Francophone life and culture. His decades-long research, travels, and personal relationships with notable Black Francophone writers, politicians, and intellectuals, by the 1960s rendered him an ideal candidate for diplomacy posts in recently independent African nation states (The Gambia and Niger). Although not much work has alluded to his significance in the field of African diaspora studies, Cook was a central figure that connected an American public, and American educational and cultural institutions, to the Black Francophone world. This profile will highlight the significance of his work in the context of African American transnational engagements in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Masse, Guirdex. "Mercer Cook: A Life in Motion." Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men 10, no. 2 (March 2023): 27–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/spe.2023.a903150.
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ABSTRACT: This article traces the intellectual trajectory and trans-national engagements of a key African American scholar and diplomat: Dr. Will Mercer Cook (1903–1987). From the 1930s to the 1960s, Mercer Cook was the foremost American authority on Black Francophone life and culture. His decades-long research, travels, and personal relationships with notable Black Francophone writers, politicians, and intellectuals, by the 1960s rendered him an ideal candidate for diplomacy posts in recently independent African nation states (The Gambia and Niger). Although not much work has alluded to his significance in the field of African diaspora studies, Cook was a central figure that connected an American public, and American educational and cultural institutions, to the Black Francophone world. This profile will highlight the significance of his work in the context of African American transnational engagements in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Hahn, Meeya. "The Growth of Black Intellectual and the School Education in A Quantum Life." Korean Society for Teaching English Literature 26, no. 3 (December 31, 2022): 153–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.19068/jtel.2022.26.3.06.
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This article attempts to examine the effects of Du Bois’ “Double-Consciousness” and American educational systems on African-American man by analyzing Hakeem Oluseyi’s A Quantum Life. Through this African-American physicist’s autobiography, we could specifically learn about life of poverty and the violence, along with dissolution of family which he had to go through. Racism in American society is ubiquitous and has detrimental effect on black people’s life. Du Bois has explained how African Americans suffer from “Double-Consciousness,” inward “twoness,” experienced by African-Americans in a white-dominated society. Considering that human’s identity forms at the junction of mutual interaction with others, Du Bois’ “Double-Consciousness” could be regarded as the condition of existence not only of African-Americans but of the humanity as a whole. However, African American’s “Double-Consciousness” is problematic in that the norms in their society have a deadly effect on them. The institutional education helped Hakeem to overcome self-loathing or sense of skepticism and become a physicist. The normative cultural assets passed down by white elites at his school provided Hakeem with the opportunity to work and study at the best physics educational institutions. Through Hakeem’s story, we can confirm that black people in the United States need special support, both tangible and intangible, to overcome the detrimental effect of racism on them.
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Kittelstrom, Amy. "Introduction: The Life of the Mind in the Early Republic." Journal of the Early Republic 43, no. 4 (December 2023): 593–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.a915158.
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Abstract: This essay introduces the five articles of this issue’s special forum on American intellectual history in the early republic. Including other recent works in the field, the essay evaluates how current scholarship diverges from or corrects the conventional narrative that has centered elite Anglo-Protestant intellectuals from the beginning of the discipline until recently. Defining terms including “America” and “intellectual” is crucial to understanding the various contributions and how they collectively turn away from American exceptionalism, a progressive view of American history, the notion of a collective American mind, and the acceptance of intellectual authority or elite status as indicative of historical value. Indigenous, African American, Catholic, Mexican-American, and Californiana voices reveal American thinkers who were skeptical of Anglo-Protestant premises, had perspectives worth considering, and made contributions to the history of American thought even while historians ignored them. The current generation of scholarship in American intellectual history marks a major revision of the last great disciplinary revision of the field after the rise of the new social history. Yet despite this promise, the institutional deterioration of higher education in the United States imperils the field.
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Nunley, Tamika. "The Intellectual World of Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Genius." Journal of Women's History 36, no. 1 (March 2024): 105–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2024.a920131.
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Abstract: This article examines the life and work of Phillis Wheatley and her interlocutors to consider how African-descended people conceptualized liberty and formed an intellectual community during the American Revolution. Her poetry and epistolary exchanges, shared with a range of acquaintances in the Atlantic World, reveal an intellectual universe that she created for herself and one that drew her into the political spotlight. Leaders of the founding generation began to question the intellectual possibilities for an African girl in ways that held political implications for the future of slavery. I argue that Wheatley's life and work opens critical avenues for exploring intellectualism as an aspiration of Black life in early America, and that her world of ideas sheds light on the possibilities of Black girlhood in the late eighteenth century.
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Frazier, Robbin, Ashley Millenbah, Sheryl Fairbanks, Warren Wolfe, and Zachary Baker. "RECRUITING THE MINORITIZED: AFRICAN AMERICAN BEREAVED DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 10–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.0032.
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Abstract Central to this project was recruiting and learning from African American people, who are underrepresented in Bereaved Dementia Caregiver research. Initially this project was conceptualized with the intent of recruiting a wide range of people of African or Caribbean descent, given the geographic presence of large contingents of African Immigrants in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. In talking to our community partners prior to launch, we elected to restrict participation to those who identified as, or identified as serving, African Americans specifically. Our recruitment strategies were largely informed by deep community engagement built through academic, personal, and non-profit partnerships over several years. We also sought to synergize recruitment efforts for this project with another effort targeting augmentations of dementia friendliness in local African American churches. In discussing recruitment strategies we also sought to hear from those who may not be those traditionally heard from. For instance, to include younger individuals, we recruited contacts through our local Alzheimer’s Association chapter’s Young Champions group. Likewise, because churches are often a major source of African American participant recruitment, we contacted individuals at the Volunteers of America to recruit. Finally, we intentionally broke our recruitment plan into stages (recruiting a handful of individuals at a time) to ensure that participants could nominate those they thought might be most important to hear from within their own communities. This intellectual humility was essential to doing this work properly and maximizing the potential of our results to help African American Bereaved Dementia Caregivers.
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Stonestreet, John. "Honoring Black Hopes: How to respond when the family is hoping for a miracle." F1000Research 11 (March 2, 2022): 268. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.109811.1.
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Background: Racial and ethnic disparities in end-of-life healthcare can be reduced by showing physicians how to best respond to a documented underlying cause: African American families’ hopes for a miracle via divine intervention influence their end-of-life medical decisions, like, for example, making them not want to withdraw ventilatory support in cases of poor neurologic prognosis because they are still hoping for God to intervene. Methods: Autoethnographic research probing the author’s Spiritual Care experience in this context yields a nuanced, 90-second point-of-care spiritual intervention physicians can use to address the religious aspect of African American families who base end-of-life medical decisions on their hopes for a miracle via divine intervention. Autoethnographic analysis is framed by physician-author, Dr. Jessica Zitter’s documented journey of grappling with this context. The evolution of Dr. Zitter’s responses to miracle-hoping African American families provides a framework for applying autoethnographic analysis to a critical appropriation of the Johns Hopkins “AMEN” communication protocol for families hoping for a miracle. Results: The common instinct of white physicians to remain neutral, holding miracle-hoping African American families at arm’s length, rather than supportively engaging their hopes, is shown to be an intellectual ruse for emotional avoidance. A novel, counterintuitive spiritual intervention for the religious aspect of miracle-hoping African American families is integrated into an existing physician communication protocol for responding to families hoping for a miracle with recommendations for utilization of existing communication technology when necessary. Conclusion: Properly addressing the religious dimension of African American families hoping for a miracle may help physicians to increase their therapeutic connection with families, decrease their own stress/burnout levels, and eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in end-of-life healthcare.
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Daddario, Will. "«Lemma»: Jay Wright’s Idiorrhythmic American Theater." Pamiętnik Teatralny 70, no. 4 (December 20, 2021): 121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.36744/pt.985.
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This essay presents Jay Wright’s play Lemma as a historiographical challenge and also as a piece of idiorrhythmic American theater. Consonant with his life’s work of poetry, dramatic literature, and philosophical writing, Lemma showcases Wright’s expansive intellectual framework with which he constructs vivid, dynamic, and complex visions of American life. The “America” conjured here is steeped in many traditions, traditions typically kept distinct by academic discourse, such as West African cosmology, Enlightenment philosophy, jazz music theory, Ancient Greek theater, neo-Baroque modifications of Christian theology, pre-Columbian indigenous ways of knowing, etymological connections between Spanish and Gaelic, the materiality of John Donne’s poetry, and the lives of enslaved Africans in the New World. What is the purpose of Wright’s theatrical conjuration? How do we approach a text with such a diverse body of intellectual and literary sources? The author answers these questions and ends with a call to treat Lemma as a much needed point of view that opens lines of sight into Black and American theater far outside the well-worn territory of the Black Arts Movement.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African american gays – intellectual life"
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Ondaatje, Michael L. "Neither counterfeit heroes nor colour-blind visionaries : black conservative intellectuals in modern America." University of Western Australia. History Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0029.
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This thesis focuses on the rise to prominence, during the 1980s and 1990s, of a coterie of African American intellectuals associated with the powerful networks and institutions of the New Right. It situates the relatively marginalised phenomenon of contemporary black conservatism within its historical context; explores the nature and significance of the racial discourse it has generated; and probes the intellectual character of the individuals whose contributions to this strand of black thought have stood out over the past three decades. Engaging the writings of the major black conservative figures and the literature of their supporters and critics, I then evaluate their ideas in relation to the key debates concerning race and class in American life debates that have centred, for the most part, on the vexed issues of affirmative action, poverty and public education. In illuminating this complex, still largely misunderstood phenomenon, this thesis reveals the black conservatives as more than a group but as individuals with their own distinctive arguments.
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Womack, Autumn Marie. "Social Document Fictions: Race, Visual Culture and Science in African American Literary Culture, 1850-1939." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BK19V9.
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When in 1928 Alain Locke coined the phrase "social document fiction" to describe W.E.B. DuBois' 1911 novel Quest of the Silver Fleece, he magnified a tenuous interplay between aesthetics, politics, and social science that underpins nineteenth and early twentieth century black intellectual activity. For Locke, social document fiction describes the small body of literature that, although important as "sociological" treatises, had yet to achieve the aesthetic sophistication that writers of the Harlem Renaissance would master. Even in his dismissal, Locke's phrasing suggests that black authors had succeeded in connecting two representational forms that continue to be positioned as polar opposites: those that use objective observation to index social life (surveys, statistics, photographs, and catalogs) and the imaginative realm of fiction. Indeed, in Quest of the Silver Fleece, DuBois combines technical analyses of agriculture, Southern economy, and Post-Reconstruction education with tales of magic cottonseed in order to convey a social world that remained opaque to positivist analysis. Belonging to neither the sphere of slave narratives, domestic family romance, or Realism, social document fiction combines formal innovation with scientific discourse to produce racial knowledge that exceeds the nineteenth century's emergent regimes of truth. This understudied genre of literature invites us to consider a simple but fraught question: what does it mean to think of social document fiction as a tool for the study of black life?
This dissertation answers this question by reconstructing African Americans' responses to key moments between 1850 and the late 1920s when visual technology, like the microscope, the photograph, and film, joined with emerging fields of natural history, sociology, and anthropology to render black subjects as intelligible objects of scientific inquiry. Immersed in this "racial data revolution," blacks grappled to identify a strategy for transmitting new "facts of blackness." I consider social document fiction as an important strategy for reassembling racial epistemologies and reorienting the public's racialized gaze. I extend this genre beyond the work of DuBois to consider how literature by Martin Delany, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston each manifest a struggle to articulate a poetics and politics in relationship social science.
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Courau, Rogier Philippe. "States of nomadism, conditions of diaspora : studies in writing between South Africa and the United States, 1913-1936." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/162.
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Using the theoretical idea of ‘writing between’ to describe the condition
of the travelling subject, this study attempts to chart some of the literary,
intellectual and cultural connections that exist(ed) between black South
African intellectuals and writers, and the experiences of their African-
American counterparts in their common movements towards civil liberty,
enfranchisement and valorised consciousness. The years 1913-1936 saw
important historical events taking place in the United States, South Africa
and the world – and their effects on the peoples of the African diaspora
were signficant. Such events elicited unified black diasporic responses to
colonial hegemony. Using theories of transatlantic/transnational cultural
negotiation as a starting point, conceptualisations that map out, and give
context to, the connections between transcontinental black experiences of
slavery and subjugation, this study seeks to re-envisage such black South
African and African-American intellectual discourses through reading them
anew. These texts have been re-covered and re-situated, are both published
and unpublished, and engage the notion of travel and the instability of
transatlantic voyaging in the liminal state of ‘writing between’. With my
particular regional focus, I explore the cultural and intellectual politics of
these diasporic interrelations in the form of case studies of texts from several
genres, including fiction and autobiography. They are: the travel writings
of Xhosa intellectual, DDT Jabavu, with a focus on his 1913 journey to the
United States; an analysis of Ethelreda Lewis’s novel, Wild Deer (1933), which
imagines the visit of an African-American musician, Paul Robeson-like figure
to South Africa; and Eslanda Goode Robeson’s representation of her African
Journey (1945) to the country in 1936, and the traveller’s gaze as expressed
through the ethnographic imagination, or the anthropological ‘eye’ in the text.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.
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van, Kessel Irene. "All is One: Towawrd a Spirtual Whole Life Education based on an Inner Life Curriculum." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32842.
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The intent of this thesis is to understand how we as educators and learners in our Western system of education can bridge and heal the fundamental principles of a constructed divide embedded in our consciousness that continues to be reproduced in our Western academy. The primary goal is to make visible this divide that is based on the intellectualization of Western education in the absence of spiritual aspirations, thus revealing the potential of spiritual transformation within the academy and our everyday lives.
In my literature-based thesis research I explored, analyzed and discussed two bodies of literature: the historical intellectualization of Western education on the one hand, and, on the other, Eastern Philosophy with the emphasis on Higher Self Yoga, African Philosophy and North American Aboriginal Spirituality. I investigated these bodies of literature employing a research paradigm that has its foundation in a spiritual ontology and epistemology. I analyzed my findings using such methodologies as appreciative inquiry, content analysis and textual analysis, including anti-colonial and indigenous knowledges theoretical frameworks.
I found that the synthesis and integration of the inner life wisdom revealed in the three philosophies is an integral component fundamental toward a whole life vision of education, an educative vision that has the potential to serve as a catalyst to open the gates for life-enhancing change in the academy and our everyday lives.
Change implies becoming aware of our true origin, who we truly are, and what our intrinsic purpose is. Change implies becoming aware of humanity’s accelerated transition toward a higher level of spiritual planetary consciousness, a spiritual evolution as an inner quest of unity with nature, the larger human community, the universe, and the divine Source itself. Change implies whole life educational processes, inclusive of the unfoldment of inner life wisdom, the authority of the human spirit, and the sense of divinity, as useful bridging work in healing the divide in our aware consciousness and our educational institutions. Whole life change needs to be the responsibility of academic education, as well our self-responsibility of realizing ourselves as citizen of the world living within one-world consciousness. All is one.
Books on the topic "African american gays – intellectual life"
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Joyner, Gee. He talk white: The scholarly and artistic works of a writer. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2013.
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Coser, Stelamaris. Bridging the Americas: The literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
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Walter, Mosley, ed. Black genius: African American solutions to African American problems. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
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L, Conyers James, ed. Black American intellectualism and culture: A social study of African American social and political thought. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999.
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D, Wright W. Crisis of the Black intellectual. Chicago: Third World Press, 2005.
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Sickels, Amy. African-American writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010.
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Sickels, Amy. African-American writers. New York: Chelsea House, 2010.
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Collins, Patricia Hill. On intellectual activism. Philadelphia. PA: Temple University Press, 2013.
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1946-, Lott Tommy Lee, ed. African-American philosophy: Selected readings. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall, 2002.
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Bader, Philip. African-American writers. New York: Facts On File, 2010.
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Reed, Adolph L. "“Tradition” and Ideology in Black Intellectual Life." In W.E B. Du Bois and American Political Thought, 127–62. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195051742.003.0008.
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Abstract In 1989 and 1990 at least three new editions of The Souls of Black Folk were published in the United States, and it was excerpted in at least one collection of “African-American Classics.” An earlier wave of reissues had occurred, not surprisingly, during the 1960s, and the introductory essays accompanying editions in the different periods present a revealing contrast. No reference to the double-consciousness passage appears in either Saunders Redding’s introduction to the 1961 Fawcett edition or Nathan Hare’s and Alvin Poussaint’s introductions to the 1968 Signet edition. Nor does John Hope Franklin mention it in his introductory essay to the 1965 Three Negro Classics collection which includes Souls. In a 1989 Penguin edition, however, Donald B. Gibson construes the double-consciousness tension as a central element of Du Bois’s volume.
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Müller, Timo. "Introduction: Troubling Spaces." In The African American Sonnet, 3–14. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817839.003.0001.
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When Albery Allson Whitman, a minister and former slave, published his first collection of poetry in 1877, he inaugurated an unlikely genre: the African American sonnet.1 This was an altogether remarkable event. An ethnic group that had largely been excluded from intellectual life was beginning to appropriate one of the most venerable traditions in Western literature. A group whose capabilities had widely been disparaged was demonstrating its mastery of one of the most complex poetic forms in the language. A group whose cultural heritage had mainly relied on oral transmission was turning to one of the most durable genres in written literature. It was a development few were prepared to acknowledge or accept—as June Jordan, herself a writer of sonnets, would put it many years later, it was “not natural” (...
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Butler, Leslie. "Reconstructions in Intellectual and Cultural Life." In Reconstructions, 172–205. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195175950.003.0008.
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Abstract Charles Eliot Norton, descendant of Puritan divines and wartime editor of the North American Review, and Edward Pollard, advocate of the African slave trade and wartime editor of the Richmond Examiner, agreed on very little. Yet both perceived, as did the British liberal political philosopher John Stuart Mill, that ideas were at the heart of the American Civil War. Norton envisioned an epic battle between two systems of thought, Pollard understood ideas as weapons with which to win the peace, and Mill diagnosed a mental jolt so forceful it would make the American mind newly receptive to reasoned inquiry. Recent scholarship has taken up and extended all three of these viewpoints, establishing that the massive upheaval of the 1860s did mobilize and transform American thought. The Civil War and its aftermath elicited reconstructions in intellectual terms no less than in social, political, or economic ones. No matter how one defines “Reconstruction”—as the reentry of the former Confederate states into the Union, as the adjustment to the emancipation of some four million slaves, or as the integration of the national economy under a newly powerful centralized state—the process of moving from Civil War to a civil peace required mental adaptation. All major wars undoubtedly result in periods of cultural and intellectual activity. Participants struggle to define the conflict, give purpose to the loss of life, reconcile initial aspirations with postwar realities, and vie for the meaning of the peace.
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Rodriguez, Cheryl R. "Diane K. Lewis and the Transformation of Anthropology." In The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology, 37–51. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042027.003.0004.
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This chapter explores Diane Lewis’s professional life as a courageous, self-determined intellectual activist. She studied anthropology at predominantly white institutions during the years when America’s apartheid policies and practices were firmly in place. Undaunted by the explicit racism and sexism of her time, Diane K. Lewis earned a PhD from Cornell University in 1962. Her experiences with blatant discrimination inspired a fiery intellectual activism. Although critical of anthropology’s colonial influences, Lewis believed the discipline could be transformed through activist engagement by insider or native scholars. Her most influential work addressed the intersection of race, gender, and class and the impact of HIV/AIDS on black communities.
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Blee, Kathleen M. "Studying the Enemy." In Our Studies Ourselves, 13–23. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195146615.003.0002.
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Abstract For two decades of studying organized racism, I have been careful to maintain as much anonymity as possible, revealing little about myself to the racist activists I meet. So in writing this chapter I feel particularly exposed, although this is an apt time to reflect on my entanglement in the study of organized racism. After years of emotional gymnastics, I’ve decided to stop doing this kind of research. Studying the racist right has been intellectually and politically rewarding but personally too difficult. The reasons that this is the case may suggest lessons that are useful to other scholars, even those with less unsavory research interests. Since the early 1980s, I have studied racist groups in the United States. Concretely, this means I have spent countless hours in disgusting tasks: reading vicious propaganda about African Americans, Jews, gay men and lesbians, non-Caucasian immigrants, and others; transcribing the messages of racist telephone “hate lines,” radio programs, cable TV shows, and videos; hanging out at racist rallies and headquarters; and locating and interviewing dozens of people who see the meaning of their life as eliminating or expelling from the United States people like me and those I love. How did I, a white woman from the Midwest, a leftist and feminist academic, find myself in this profoundly unpleasant line of work? And why did I then decide to leave it?
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Jackson, Antoinette. "Vera Mae Green." In The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology, 191–99. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042027.003.0014.
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This chapter presents an overview of Vera Green’s intellectual contributions to anthropology. It explores the influences in Green’s life that shaped her approach to applied anthropology, particularly focusing on her Quaker roots. Green’s research is centered on the study of black families and social and cultural influences impacting their construction. Green earned degrees from Roosevelt College, Columbia University, and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her dissertation examines the interethnic relations on the island of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles. She died after a long battle with cancer on January 17, 1982, at the age of fifty-three.
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Nixon, Angelique V. "On Being a Black Sexual Intellectual." In Black Sexual Economies, 237–49. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042645.003.0015.
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This chapter provides a critical reading of Cheryl Clarke's second volume of poetry, Living as a Lesbian. Situating this text within the larger context of black women's poetry, Green argues that its erotic aesthetic works to critique the historic erasure of the black lesbian body in the discourse of African American life as it simultaneously pushes toward and away from theories of sexuality that limit and thus reduce black women’s linguistic economies to metaphors of sexual desire.
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Hunter, Lacey P. "“Fired with a Holy Ambition”." In A Seat at the Table, 19–44. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496847515.003.0003.
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Though her public speaking career was ephemeral, Maria W. Stewart’s life work as a public intellectual and activist reveal the significance of black women in the development of larger African American intellectual communities. More than this, however, Stewart’s work highlights her importance to black women’s distinct intellectual traditions. Specifically, her use and adaptation of the American jeremiad indicates a wider trend among her peers in free black communities.
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Blain, Keisha N. "“A Certain Bond be Tween the Colored Peoples”." In The Black Intellectual Tradition, 235–53. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043857.003.0011.
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Black internationalism, a global racial consciousness and commitment to universal emancipation, has been a fundamental aspect of the Black intellectual tradition since the era of the American Revolution. For centuries, Black men and women have articulated Black internationalism through various mediums, including journalism and overseas travel. Drawing on various primary sources—archival material, historical newspapers, and government records—this chapter highlights Black men’s and women’s internationalist ideas, emphasizing their engagement with Japan during the early twentieth century. Amid the sociopolitical upheavals of the period, Black Americans from all walks of life participated in internationalist movements and deployed internationalist rhetoric to underscore the shared strategies of resistance and the political exchanges and historical connections between people of African descent in the United States and other non-Whites globally. Through an array of writings and speeches, Black men and women articulated global visions of freedom and sought to build transnational and transracial alliances with other people of color in order to secure civil and human rights.
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Douglas, Davison M., and Neal Devins. "Introduction: The Pursuit of Equality." In Redefining Equality, 3–12. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195116649.003.0001.
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Abstract The notion of equality is central to American civic life. Enshrined in two of the nation’s central documents-the Declaration of Independence (“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”) and the U.S. Constitution (“No state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”)-equality is one of the basic foundations of our national life. Yet in the most diverse nation on the planet, the notion of equality has proved elusive. A cursory survey of American history reveals the many ways in which Americans have not been treated equally under the law. We need think only of the treatment of African Americans in slavery and later in Jim Crow segregation, of women and their lack of full civil and political equality until the recent past, of the genocide and repression of this country’s native population, of the variety of indignities suffered by gays and lesbians, and of the exclusionary treatment of a vast array of immigrant groups for us to realize that equality has been denied to many Americans. In the 1990s, the issue of equality-for whites as well as for racial minorities, for men as well as for women-continues to bedevil our civic life. Cries of unequal treatment continue to be heard in both public discourse and the courts. America is far from having reached consensus over the meaning of equality and whether we have in fact achieved it.
Conference papers on the topic "African american gays – intellectual life"
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Zaborowska, Magdalena J., and Juan J. Rodríguez Barrera. "Black Digital Humanities in Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Teaching on Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality." In Ninth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head23.2023.16101.
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Two undergraduate courses (2020-23) introduce students interested in the humanities and computing to the life, works, and intellectual and material legacy of the world-famous African American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-1987). Cross-listed with the Afroamerican, American Culture, Digital Studies, and English Departments, these courses utilize an open-access digital collection documenting Baldwin’s life and his selected works. Through innovative and experiential application of literary history in conversation with the emerging fields of Black Digital Studies and Black Digital Humanities, students develop projects that build (and build on) a growing, open-access archive. Published on the ArcGIS StoryMaps platform, these projects achieve two important higher-education goals: (1) They produce student-driven knowledge on an internationally renowned Black figure accessible to non-academic users; and (2) they confirm the importance of humanities and diversity literacy as invaluable skillsets in the modern workplace.