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Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh
and blood through local organizing, national and global protests,
hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants
like "All night! All day! We're gonna fight for Freddie Gray!" and
"No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!" give voice
simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that
sustains BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of
individuals whom religious institutions have historically resisted
or rejected, contrary to general perceptions, religion neither has
been absent nor excluded from the movement's activities. This
volume has a simple, but far-reaching argument: religion is an
important thread in BLM. To advance this claim, Race, Religion, and
Black Lives Matter examines religion's place in the movement
through the lenses of history, politics, and culture. While this
collection is not exhaustive or comprehensive in its coverage of
religion and BLM, it selectively anthologizes unique aspects of
Black religious history, thought, and culture in relation to
political struggle in the contemporary era. The chapters aim to
document historical change in light of current trends and current
events. The contributors analyze religion and BLM in a current
historical moment fraught with aggressive, fascist, authoritarian
tendencies and one shaped by profound ingenuity, creativity, and
insightful perspectives on Black history and culture.
This book is a collection of aphorisms and insights on medicine and
life, gleaned from a forty year career in surgery
Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work
provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that
allows readers to consider history more directly through more than
20 primary source documents. The Abolitionist Movement: Documents
Decoded collects primary sources pertaining to various aspects of
the American anti-slavery movement in the 18th and 19th centuries
and presents these firsthand sources alongside accessibly written,
expert commentary in a visually stimulating format. Making use of
primary source documents that include pamphlets, articles,
speeches, slave narratives, and court decisions, the book models
how scholars interpret primary sources and shows readers how to
critically evaluate the key documents that chronicle this major
American movement. The work begins with an essay that
contextualizes the documents and guides readers toward perceiving
the narrative that comes into focus when the seemingly disparate
elements are read as a collection. Annotations throughout the book
translate difficult passages into lay language, suggest comparisons
of key passages, and encourage the reader to cross-reference
documents within the volume. This book will illuminate American
abolitionism and U.S. history prior to the Civil War while helping
readers improve their ability to analyze and interpret primary
source information-a key skill for both high school and
undergraduate level students. Includes a concise introduction that
summarizes the critical points in the history of slavery and
abolition Provides carefully selected key documents that represent
the full range of American thoughts on slavery Supplies useful
annotations that guide the reader's analysis and shows how
historians deconstruct documents Presents information and materials
that help readers to understand the forces that supported and
opposed slavery, thereby giving students a better grasp of American
history in general
Black Freethinkers argues that, contrary to historical and popular
depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought
has been central to black political and intellectual life from the
nineteenth century to the present. Freethought encompasses many
different schools of thought, including atheism, agnosticism, and
nontraditional orientations such as deism and paganism. Christopher
Cameron suggests an alternative origin of nonbelief and religious
skepticism in America, namely the brutality of the institution of
slavery. He also traces the growth of atheism and agnosticism among
African Americans in two major political and intellectual movements
of the 1920s: the New Negro Renaissance and the growth of black
socialism and communism. In a final chapter, he explores the
critical importance of freethought among participants in the civil
rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Examining
a wealth of sources, including slave narratives, travel accounts,
novels, poetry, memoirs, newspapers, and archival sources such as
church records, sermons, and letters, the study follows the lives
and contributions of well-known figures such as Frederick Douglass,
Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker, as well as
lesser-known thinkers such as Louise Thompson Patterson, Sarah
Webster Fabio, and David Cincore.
Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh
and blood through local organizing, national and global protests,
hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants
like "All night! All day! We're gonna fight for Freddie Gray!" and
"No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!" give voice
simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that
sustains BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of
individuals whom religious institutions have historically resisted
or rejected, contrary to general perceptions, religion neither has
been absent nor excluded from the movement's activities. This
volume has a simple, but far-reaching argument: religion is an
important thread in BLM. To advance this claim, Race, Religion, and
Black Lives Matter examines religion's place in the movement
through the lenses of history, politics, and culture. While this
collection is not exhaustive or comprehensive in its coverage of
religion and BLM, it selectively anthologizes unique aspects of
Black religious history, thought, and culture in relation to
political struggle in the contemporary era. The chapters aim to
document historical change in light of current trends and current
events. The contributors analyze religion and BLM in a current
historical moment fraught with aggressive, fascist, authoritarian
tendencies and one shaped by profound ingenuity, creativity, and
insightful perspectives on Black history and culture.
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella
Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo
Ruiz Suarez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in
sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of
thought. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition is a
collection of twelve essays that explores these and other theorists
and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social,
and cultural thought. The book examines four central themes within
the black intellectual tradition: black internationalism, religion
and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice,
and black radicalism. The essays identify the emergence of black
thought within multiple communities internationally, analyze how
black thinkers shaped and were shaped by the historical moment in
which they lived, interrogate the ways in which activists and
intellectuals connected their theoretical frameworks across time
and space, and assess how these strains of thought bolstered black
consciousness and resistance worldwide. Defying traditional
temporal and geographical boundaries, New Perspectives on the Black
Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for
black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and
social action, and challenges long-held assumptions about black
perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals
profiled in the volume reshape and redefine the contours and
boundaries of black thought, further illuminating the depth and
diversity of the black intellectual tradition.
The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when
William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831-a
phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary
mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations
such as the American Anti-Slavery Society. While the period from
1831 to 1865 is known as the heyday of radical abolitionism, the
work of Garrison's predecessors in Massachusetts was critical in
laying the foundation for antebellum abolitionism. To Plead Our Own
Cause explores the significant contributions of African Americans
in the Bay State to both local and nationwide antislavery activity
before 1831 and demonstrates that their efforts represent nothing
less than the beginning of organized abolitionist activity in
America. Fleshing out the important links between Reformed
theology, the institution of slavery, and the rise of the
antislavery movement, author Christopher Cameron argues that
African Americans in Massachusetts initiated organized abolitionism
in America and that their antislavery ideology had its origins in
Puritan thought and the particular system of slavery that this
religious ideology shaped in Massachusetts. The political activity
of black abolitionists was central in effecting the abolition of
slavery and the slave trade within the Bay State, and it was
likewise key in building a national antislavery movement in the
years of the early republic. Even while abolitionist strategies
were evolving, much of the rhetoric and tactics that well-known
abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
employed in the mid-nineteenth century had their origins among
blacks in Massachusetts during the eighteenth century.
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella
Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo
Ruiz Suarez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in
sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of
thought. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition is a
collection of twelve essays that explores these and other theorists
and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social,
and cultural thought. The book examines four central themes within
the black intellectual tradition: black internationalism, religion
and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice,
and black radicalism. The essays identify the emergence of black
thought within multiple communities internationally, analyze how
black thinkers shaped and were shaped by the historical moment in
which they lived, interrogate the ways in which activists and
intellectuals connected their theoretical frameworks across time
and space, and assess how these strains of thought bolstered black
consciousness and resistance worldwide. Defying traditional
temporal and geographical boundaries, New Perspectives on the Black
Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for
black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and
social action, and challenges long-held assumptions about black
perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals
profiled in the volume reshape and redefine the contours and
boundaries of black thought, further illuminating the depth and
diversity of the black intellectual tradition.
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