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Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South - Resistance and Non-Violence (Hardcover)
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Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South - Resistance and Non-Violence (Hardcover)
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This book contains a succession of philosophical biographies. The
subjects, located in the period 1850-2000, and even if later
exiled, were chosen by virtue of birth and life in the American
South on the assumption of the distinctiveness of Southern
conditions. The 'foundational' figures in Black Southern social and
political thought are represented as Frederick Douglass, Booker
Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall adn Martin King are
viewed as 'indispensable', though not 'foundational'. The remaining
figures - Howard Thurman, Richard Wright, Fred Gray and Barbara
Jordan - are important in various ways and are seen as
'illustrative'. From the perspective of liberation, the two high
points in the African-American Odyssey are marked by Emancipation
in the nineteenth century and Desegregation in the twentieth.
Douglass bestriding the first, King and Marshall the second.
resistance runs through most (but not Washington); and the thread
of non-violence, with greater or less force, also runs through most
(but not Wright). This volume assumes a distinction between (a) an
earlier period when Afro-America was more cohesive and collectively
committed to self-improvement despite the odds, and (b) the
contemporary period, beyond desegregation, marked by rates never
previously rivaled of suicide, joblessness, imprisonment, despair
and alienation, especially among black poor. The life stories and
philosophies presented here are adjuncts to that earlier period; a
volume properly reflecting the second is still to be rolled into
place. and Political Philosophy.
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