|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
In An American Friendship, David Weinfeld presents the biography of
an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern
multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between
two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African
American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition
to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It
is a simple idea-different ethnic groups can and should coexist in
the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment
of the country as whole-and it grew out of the lived experience of
this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a
founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research,
became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes
Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the
intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of
The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford
during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the
Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To
Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural
pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while
appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how
this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for
diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides
critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity
politics that polarize US society today.
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.
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.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|