The Black church is often praised for its contribution to Black
culture and politics. More recently Islam has been recognized as an
important force in African American liberation. Anthony Pinn's new
anthology By These Hands demonstrates the crucial, often overlooked
role that Humanism has played in African American struggles for
dignity, power and justice. Pinn collects the finest examples of
African American Humanism and shows how its embrace by a variety of
prominent figures in African American thought and letters has
served as the basis for activism and resistance to American racism
and sexism.
Pinn uncovers little known treasures of African American
Literature such as The Slave Narrative of James Hay, where an
abused slave decides to rely on himself, rather than God, for
deliverance from the horrors of slavery, and a letter from
Frederick Douglass which scandalized his religious friends by
proclaiming that "One honest Abolitionist was a greater terror to
slaveholders than whole acres of camp-meeting preachers shouting
glory to God." Essays by Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright
demonstrate the profound influence of Humanism in the Harlem
Rennaisance, and pieces by James Farmer, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
and Huey Newton show Humanism's impact on the civil rights and
Black Power movements.
Designed for classroom use, this radical reconsideration of
African American history will be a must read for anyone interested
in African American History, African American Religion and
Philosophy, and American History.
Contributors: Norm Allen, Jr., Herbert Aptheker, James Baldwin,
Amiri Imamu Baraka, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling Brown, Frederick
Douglass, W.E.B.Du Bois, James Foreman, Duchess Harris, Hubert H.
Harrison, Harry Haywood, Zora Neale Hurston, William R. Jones,
William Loren Katz, Benjamin E. Mays, Huey P. Newton, Daniel Payne,
J. Saunders Redding, William L. Van DeBurg, Alice Walker, and
Richard Wright.
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