Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought

From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women's and men's perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberation.

Expansive in scope and interdisciplinary in practice, The Black Intellectual Tradition delves into the ideas that animated a people's striving for full participation in American life.

Contributors: Derrick P. Alridge, Keisha N. Blain, Cornelius L. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Evans, Aaron David Gresson III, Claudrena N. Harold, Leonard Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, La TaSha B. Levy, Layli Maparyan, Zebulon V. Miletsky, R. Baxter Miller, Edward Onaci, Venetria K. Patton, James B. Stewart, and Nikki M. Taylor

| Cover Title Page Contents Introduction Part I: Scholarship and Education 1. African American Intellectual History: The Past as a Porthole into the Present and Future of the Field 2. Afrocentricity and Autobiography: Historiographical Interventions into Black Intellectual Traditions Part II: Arts and Letters 3. Singing Is Swinging: The Soul Force of Twentieth-Century Black Protest Music 4. The Post–Civil Rights Era and the Rise of Contemporary Novels of Slavery 5. Letters to Our Daughters: Black Women's Memoirs as Epistles of Human Rights, Healing, and Inner Peace Part III: Social Activism and Institutions 6. Into the Kpanguima: Questing for the Roots of Womanism in West African Women's Social and Spiritual Formations 7. New Negro Messengers in Dixie: James Ivy, Thomas Dabney, and Black Cultural Criticism in the Postwar US South, 1919-1930 8. Tackling the Talented Tenth: Black Greek-Lettered Organizations and the Black New South Part IV: Identity and Ideology 9. A New Afrikan Nation in the Western Hemisphere: Black Power, the Republic of New Afrika, and the Pursuit of Independence 10. "A Certain Bond between the Colored Peoples": Internationalism and the Black Intellectual Tradition 11. Black Conservative Dissent 12. Postracialism and Its Discontents: Barack Obama and The New "American Dilemma" Contributors Index Back cover |"Argues for a more expansive field of Black intellectual history that includes, not just other genres of writing, but also art and cultural practices of specific communities. . . and race-conscious social organizations and institutions, such as the early Black masonic lodges and later HBCUs and the 'Divine Nine' fraternities and sororities that sent forth generations of Black activists, scholars, and artists." —<i>Society for U.S. Intellectual History</i> <br>
"Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and well-documented. . . The Black Intellectual Tradition provides information and insights of great value to educators and scholars of all disciplines, genders, and racial/ethnic identities." —Journal of American History
|Derrick P. Alridge is a professor of education in the...