Heroism And The Black Intellectual

Author : Jerry Gafio Watts
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807866237
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroism and the Black Intellectual written by Jerry Gafio Watts and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before and after writing Invisible Man, novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison fought to secure a place as a black intellectual in a white-dominated society. In this sophisticated analysis of Ellison's cultural politics, Jerry Watts examines the ways in which black artists and thinkers attempt to establish creative intellectual spaces for themselves. Using Ellison as a case study, Watts makes important observations about the role of black intellectuals in America today. Watts argues that black intellectuals have had to navigate their way through a society that both denied them the resources, status, and encouragement available to their white peers and alienated them from the rest of their ethnic group. For Ellison to pursue meaningful intellectual activities in the face of this marginalization demanded creative heroism, a new social and artistic stance that challenges cultural stereotypes. For example, Ellison first created an artistic space for himself by associating with Communist party literary circles, which recognized the value of his writing long before the rest of society was open to his work. In addition, to avoid prescriptive white intellectual norms, Ellison developed his own ideology, which Watts terms the 'blues aesthetic.' Watts's ambitious study reveals a side of Ellison rarely acknowledged, blending careful criticism of art with a wholesale engagement with society.

Author : Arthur Alfonso Schomburg
Publisher : Editora Funmilayo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781999675691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Need for Heroes written by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg and published by Editora Funmilayo Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Stereotypes: Celebrating Black Heroes Through Powerful Essays For too long, Black heroes have been relegated to the margins of history, their stories untold or overshadowed by a narrow narrative. This groundbreaking anthology helps shatter that silence. The Need for Heroes brings together a chorus of brilliant Black voices from Brazil and the USA-scholars, activists, and leaders who examine the lives and legacies of Black heroes from all walks of life. In these pages, William Cooper Nell, George Washington Williams, Manuel R. Querino, Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, J. A. Rogers, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Elizabeth Ross Haynes explore the complexities of Black heroism, delving beyond one-dimensional portrayals to reveal a rich tapestry of achievements. Gain a deeper understanding of Black history and culture through these insightful and inspiring essays, including a foreword by the bibliophile and Black vindicationist Arthur Schomburg and an afterword by the Brazilian historian Flávio Gomes. The Need for Heroes is a must-read for anyone seeking a more complete picture of heroism, one that reflects the full spectrum of human experience. It is a celebration of Black excellence, and a powerful testament to the enduring human spirit. From the editor and publisher of Manuel Querino (1851-1923): An Afro-Brazilian Pioneer in the Age of Scientific Racism (2021)

Author : Mia E. Bay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620928
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women written by Mia E. Bay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to recovering the contributions of thinkers marginalized by both their race and their gender, these essays uncover the work of unconventional intellectuals, both formally educated and self-taught, and explore the broad community of ideas in which their work participated. The end result is a field-defining and innovative volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture. Contributors are Mia E. Bay, Judith Byfield, Alexandra Cornelius, Thadious Davis, Corinne T. Field, Arlette Frund, Kaiama L. Glover, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherie Randolph, Barbara D. Savage, Jon Sensbach, Maboula Soumahoro, and Cheryl Wall.

Author : Jerry Watts
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814793738
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amiri Baraka written by Jerry Watts and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a chapter sure to prove controversial, Watts links Baraka's famous misogyny to an attempt to bury his own homosexual past."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Celeste-Marie Bernier
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813933250
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Characters of Blood written by Celeste-Marie Bernier and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women—Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman—challenged the dominant conceptualizations of their histories and played a key role in the construction of an alternative visual and textual archive. While these figures have survived as symbolic touchstones, Bernier contends that scholars have yet to do justice to their complex bodies of work or their multifaceted lives. Adopting a comparative and transatlantic approach to her subjects’ remarkable life stories, the author analyzes a wealth of creative work—from literature, drama, and art to public monuments, religious tracts, and historical narratives—to show how it represents enslaved heroism throughout the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. In mapping this black diasporic tradition of resistance, Bernier intends not only to reveal the limitations and distortions on record but also to complicate the definitions of black heroism that have been restricted by ideological boundaries between heroic and anti-heroic sites and sights of struggle.

Author : Harold Cruse
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171356
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual written by Harold Cruse and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of struggle and reflection, Cruse's book is a singular amalgam of cultural history, passionate disputation, and deeply considered analysis of the relationship between American blacks and American society. Reviewing black intellectual life from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, Cruse discusses the legacy (and offers memorably acid-edged portraits) of figures such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin, arguing that their work was marked by a failure to understand the specifically American character of racism in the United States. This supplies the background to Cruse's controversial critique of both integrationism and black nationalism and to his claim that black Americans will only assume a just place within American life when they develop their own distinctive centers of cultural and economic influence. For Cruse's most important accomplishment may well be his rejection of the clichés of the melting pot in favor of a vision of Americanness as an arena of necessary and vital contention, an open and ongoing struggle.

Author : Jerry G. Watts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135964068
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered written by Jerry G. Watts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays looking back at the influence of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, first published 35 years ago.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Author : Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807179213
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Invisibility written by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy, race, identity, social community, place, and political expression. This compelling new exploration of Ellison’s legacy stresses the perpetual need to reexamine the intersections of race, literature, and American culture, with particular attention to how the democratic principle has grown increasingly urgent in the nation’s ongoing, and often contentious, conversations about race. Arguing that Ellison saw racial and social identity as being inseparable from the nation’s past and its complicated history of racial anxiety, In the Shadow of Invisibility traces the growth and transformation of Ellison’s ideas across his life and work, from his early apprentice writing that culminated in his groundbreaking first novel, Invisible Man, through the posthumous publication of his unfinished second novel, Three Days before the Shooting . . . Focused on his mythic vision of the promise of America, this book firmly situates Ellison in the sociopolitical environments from which his ideas arose, with close consideration of his published writings, including his influential essays on literature and jazz, as well as his working notes and correspondence. Bland foregrounds Ellison’s thinking on the responsibilities of Black writers to examine democratic ideals, the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, and the impacts of civil rights movements. Interweaving biography, history, and literary criticism, and drawing from extensive archival research, In the Shadow of Invisibility reveals the extent to which Ellison’s work exposes the contradictions inherent in American culture, arguing anew for the importance and immediacy of his writings in the broader context of American intellectual thought.

Author : Jerry G. Watts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113596405X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered written by Jerry G. Watts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years after its initial publication, Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," remains a foundational work in Afro-American Studies and American Cultural Studies. Published during a highly contentious moment in Afro-American political life, "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" was one of the very few texts that treated Afro-American intellectuals as intellectually significant. The essays contained in Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered" are collectively a testimony to the continuing significance of this polemical call to arms for black intellectuals. Each scholar featured in this book has chosen to discuss specific arguments made by Cruse. While some have utilized Cruse's arguments to launch broader discussions of various issues pertaining to Afro-American intellectuals, and others have contributed discussions on intellectual issues completely ignored by Cruse, all hope to pay homage to a thinker worthy of continual reconsideration.