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Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black
Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the
same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's
image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and
Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views
on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass,
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall,
Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Barack Obama,
and dozens of others. The selections move from speeches to letters
to book excerpts, mapping the changing contours of the
bond--emotional and intellectual--between Lincoln and Black
Americans over the span of one hundred and fifty years. A
comprehensive and valuable reader, Knowing Him by Heart examines
Lincoln's still-evolving place in Black American thought.
Extraordinary racial politics rupture out of and reset everyday
racial politics. In his cogent book, Fred Lee examines four
unusual, episodic, and transformative moments in U.S. history: the
1830s-1840s southeastern Indian removals, the Japanese internment
during World War II, the post-war civil rights movement, and the
1960s-1970s racial empowerment movements. Lee helps us connect
these extraordinary events to both prior and subsequent everyday
conflicts. Extraordinary Racial Politics brings about an
intellectual exchange between ethnic studies, which focuses on
quotidian experiences and negotiations, and political theory, which
emphasizes historical crises and breaks. In ethnic studies, Lee
draws out the extraordinary moments in Michael Omi and Howard
Winant's as well as Charles Mills's accounts of racial formation.
In political theory, Lee considers the strengths and weaknesses of
using Carl Schmitt's and Hannah Arendt's accounts of public
constitution to study racial power. Lee concludes that
extraordinary racial politics represent both the promises of social
emancipation and the perils of state power. This promise and peril
characterizes our contentious racial present.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as
a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide
variety of college and university courses. Bringing together
writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean,
and North America, Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee made the
case for a tradition of ""relational humanism"" distinct from the
philosophical preoccupations of the West. Over the past twenty
years, however, new scholarly research has uncovered other
contributions to the discipline now generally known as ""Africana
philosophy"" that were not included in the original volume. In this
revised and expanded edition, Hord and Lee build on the strengths
of the earlier anthology while enriching the selection of readings
to bring the text into the twenty-first century. In a new
introduction, the editors reflect on the key arguments of the
book's central thesis, refining them in light of more recent
philosophical discourse. This edition includes important new
readings by Kwame Gyekye, Oyèrónké Oy ewùmí, Paget Henry,
Sylvia Wynter, Toni Morrison, Charles Mills, and Tommy Curry, as
well as extensive suggestions for further reading.
Extraordinary racial politics rupture out of and reset everyday
racial politics. In his cogent book, Fred Lee examines four
unusual, episodic, and transformative moments in U.S. history: the
1830s-1840s southeastern Indian removals, the Japanese internment
during World War II, the post-war civil rights movement, and the
1960s-1970s racial empowerment movements. Lee helps us connect
these extraordinary events to both prior and subsequent everyday
conflicts. Extraordinary Racial Politics brings about an
intellectual exchange between ethnic studies, which focuses on
quotidian experiences and negotiations, and political theory, which
emphasizes historical crises and breaks. In ethnic studies, Lee
draws out the extraordinary moments in Michael Omi and Howard
Winant's as well as Charles Mills's accounts of racial formation.
In political theory, Lee considers the strengths and weaknesses of
using Carl Schmitt's and Hannah Arendt's accounts of public
constitution to study racial power. Lee concludes that
extraordinary racial politics represent both the promises of social
emancipation and the perils of state power. This promise and peril
characterizes our contentious racial present.
This precious volume of new and selected poems justly widens Dr.
Hord's space among the poets of the Black Arts Movement. He
remains, as John O. Killers would state, one of the long distance
runners. He is in a league with Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia
Toure, Jayne Cortez, Eugene Redmond, Lucille Clifton, Kalamu ya
Salaam, and others who created a movement that helped to change
America and the world for the literate and liberated majority.
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