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Author : Cornel West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567510072
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Prophetic reflections: Notes on race and power in America written by Cornel West and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornel West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism: Prophetic reflections: Notes on race and power in America written by Cornel West and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Gilyard
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328543
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)
Download or read book Composition and Cornel West written by Keith Gilyard and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy identifies and explains key aspects of the work of Cornel West—the highly regarded scholar of religion, philosophy, and African American studies—as they relate to composition studies, focusing especially on three rhetorical strategies that West suggests we use in our questioning lives as scholars, teachers, students, and citizens. In this study, author Keith Gilyard examines the strategies of Socratic Commitment (a relentless examination of received wisdom), Prophetic Witness (an abiding concern with justice and the plight of the oppressed), and Tragicomic Hope (a keep-on-pushing sensibility reflective of the African American freedom struggle). Together, these rhetorical strategies comprise an updated form of cultural criticism that West calls prophetic pragmatism. This volume, which contains the only interview in which Cornel West directly addresses the field of composition,sketches the development of Cornel West’s theories of philosophy, political science, religion, and cultural studies and restates the link between Deweyan notions of critical intelligence and the notion of critical literacy developed by Ann Berthoff, Ira Shor, and Henry Giroux. Gilyard provides examples from the classroom to illustrate the possibilities of Socratic Commitment as part of composition pedagogy, shows the alignment of Prophetic Witness with traditional aims of critical composition, and in his chapter on Tragicomic Hope, addresses African American expressive culture with an emphasis on music and artists such as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and Kanye West. The first book to comprehensively connect the ideas of one of America's premier scholars of religion, philosophy and African American studies with composition theory and pedagogy, Composition and Cornel West will be valuable to scholars, teachers, and students interested in race, class, critical literacy, and the teaching of writing.
Author : Marta Araújo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113729289X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge written by Marta Araújo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses key issues in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. Contributors explore the history of liberation politics as well as academic and political reaction through formulas of accommodation that re-centre the West.
Author : Klaus J. Milich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811639
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Multiculturalism in Transit written by Klaus J. Milich and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given German history and Germany's current substantial non-citizenship population, it is hardly surprising that multiculturalism with its treatment of "the other" is as controversial there as in the US. Sixteen papers derived from an unspecified conference co-hosted by the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown U., Berlin's Humboldt U., and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation address: theorizing comparisons; gender and race; American studies in Germany; German studies in America; and multiculturalism in the transatlantic sphere. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Robert L. Hilliard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315503158
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Waves of Rancor written by Robert L. Hilliard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The airwaves in America are being used by armed militias, conspiracy theorists, survivalists, the religious right, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other radical groups to reach millions with their messages of hate and fear. Waves of Rancor examines the origin, nature, and impact of right-wing electronic media, including radio, television, cable, the internet, and even music CDs.
Author : Reginald F. Davis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630870595
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book From Wall Street to Main Street written by Reginald F. Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming. There are frightening signs that America is on the same path to destruction as the Roman Empire was before its fall. Since America has embraced secular progressivism and redefined its traditional spiritual values, our nation has greatly declined. History points to the judgment of God that came upon nations for their moral toxicity. Unless America repents, returns to God, reorders its priorities, and sets its financial house in order, future generations will ask, "Why has the mighty fallen?" America needs to heed Abraham Lincoln, who said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves from within." From Wall Street to Main Street is a trumpet blast not only to alert Americans to our spiritual and moral decline but also to encourage our citizens to save this great republic. Our struggle is not merely social, economic, and political--it is spiritual. There is hope, and this hope is in the struggle to make God, justice, and morality central in our nation once again.
Author : Marlene Calvin
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643105746
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Diasporic Lives written by Marlene Calvin and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans and Jamaicans share a common past of forced dispersion from their original homelands and enslavement in the Americas. The legacies of white supremacy, racism and Euro-centrism are still influential in both societies today. The conditions of alienation and violence which are represented in African American and Jamaican cultural texts are tied to the sociological development of both societies. The processes of having to prove their humanity, as cultural communities and as individuals, have caused many African diasporic people to become alienated from - and violated by - the societies they live in.
Author : Joseph K. Adjaye
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971771
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Language, Rhythm, and Sound written by Joseph K. Adjaye and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean this collection of multidisciplinary essays takes on subjects long overdue for study. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls' Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale to the work of Zora Neale Hurston; from South African workers to Just Another Girl on the IRT; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente clothl from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.The contributors work through the prisms of many disciplines, including anthropology, communications, English, ethnomusicology, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political economy, psychology, and social work. Their interpretive approaches place the many voices of popular black cultures into a global context. It affirms that black culture everywhere functions to give meaning to people's lives by constructing identities that resist cultural, capitolist, colonial, and postcolonial domination.
Author : Jacob L. Goodson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161097428X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Rorty and the Religious written by Jacob L. Goodson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to his death in 2007, the self-described secular philosopher Richard Rorty began to modify his previous position concerning religion. Moving from "atheism" to "anti-clericalism," Rorty challenges the metaphysical assumptions that lend justification to abuses of power in the name of religion. Instead of dismissing and ignoring Rorty's challenge, the essays in this volume seek to enter into meaningful conversation with Rorty's thought and engage his criticisms in a constructive and serious way. In so doing, one finds promising nuggets within Rorty's thought for addressing particular questions within Christianity. The essays in this volume offer charitable yet fully confessional engagements with an impressive secular thinker. Contributors to this Volume: Stanley Hauerwas Eric Hall Barry Harvey D. Stephen Long Charles Marsh David O'Hara Jason Springs Donald G. Wester Keith Starkenburg Roger Ward
Author : Frank Burch Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195158724
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste written by Frank Burch Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment--a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has "teeth but no fangs." While grounded in history and theory, this book takes up such practical questions as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music that is worldly in origin into a house of worship? How can the exercise of taste in the making of art be a viable (and sometimes advanced) spiritual discipline? In exploring the complex relation between taste, religious imagination, and faith, Brown offers a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious, and indeed Christian.
Author : Célestin Monga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191510769
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics written by Célestin Monga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the well-known limitations of economic data across the continent. Moreover, development economics itself was not always fashionable, and the broader discipline of economics has had its ups and downs, and has been undergoing a major identity crisis because it failed to predict the Great Recession. Times have changed: many leading researchers-including a few Nobel laureates-have taken the subject of Africa and economics seriously enough to devote their expertise and creativity to it. They have been amply rewarded: the richness, complexities, and subtleties of African societies, civilizations, rationalities, and ways of living, have helped renew the humanities and the social sciences-and economics in particular-to the point that the continent has become the next major intellectual frontier to researchers from around the world. In collecting some of the most authoritative statements about the science of economics and its concepts in the African context, this ^lhandbook (the first of two volumes) opens up the diverse acuity of commentary on exciting topics, and in the process challenges and stimulates the quest for knowledge. Wide-ranging in its scope, themes, language, and approaches, this volume explores, examines, and assesses economic thinking on Africa, and Africa's contribution to the discipline. The editors bring a set of powerful resources to this endeavor, most notably a team of internationally-renowned economists whose diverse viewpoints are complemented by the perspectives of philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists.
Author : Abraham Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444730X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Black/Africana Studies and Black/Africana Biblical Studies written by Abraham Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study introduces the nature, history, and interventions of two theoretical-political cultural productions that formally emerged in U.S. educational institutions in the late 1960s as a part of the Black Freedom movement: Black/Africana studies and Black/Africana biblical studies..
Author : Mark Staff Brandl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350073857
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art written by Mark Staff Brandl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and act. While we are alert to metaphor in spoken or written texts, it has, within the visual arts, been critically overlooked. Taking into consideration how metaphors are inventively embodied in the formal, technical, and stylistic aspects of visual artworks, Mark Staff Brandl shows how extensively artists rely on creative metaphor within their work. Exploring the work of a broad variety of artists – including Dawoud Bey, Dan Ramirez, Gaëlle Villedary, Raoul Deal, Sonya Clark, Titus Kaphar, Charles Boetschi, and more– he argues that metaphors are the foundation of visual thought, are chiefly determined by bodily and environmental experiences, and are embodied in artistic form. Visual artistic creation is philosophical thought. By grounding these arguments in the work of philosophers and cultural theorists, including Noël Carroll, Hans Georg Gadamer, and George Lakoff, Brandl shows how important metaphor is to understanding contemporary art. A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art takes a neglected feature of the visual arts and shows us what a vital role it plays within them. Bridging theory and practice, and drawing upon a capacious array of examples, this book is essential reading for art historians and practitioners, as well as analytic philosophers working in aesthetics and meaning.
Author : Cornel West
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458730026
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Brother West written by Cornel West and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America's most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West's penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades. Yet, as he points out in this new memoir, I've never taken ...
Author : Gary J. Dorrien
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149840
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Economy, Difference, Empire written by Gary J. Dorrien and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian social ethics--social gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism, and liberation theology--Gary Dorrien argues for the social-ethical necessity of social justice politics. In carefully reasoned essays, he focuses on three subjects: the ethics and politics of economic justice, racial and gender justice, and antimilitarism, making a constructive case for economic democracy, along with a liberationist understanding of racial and gender justice and an anti-imperial form of liberal internationalism. In Dorrien's view, the three major discourse traditions of progressive Christian social ethics share a fundamental commitment to transform the structures of society in the direction of social justice. His reflections on these topics feature innovative analyses of major figures, such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, James Burnham, Norman Thomas, and Michael Harrington, and an extensive engagement with contemporary intellectuals, such as Rosemary R. Ruether, Katie Cannon, Gregory Baum, and Cornel West. Dorrien also weaves his personal experiences into his narrative, especially his involvement in social justice movements. He includes a special chapter on the 2008 presidential campaign and the historic candidacy of Barack Obama.
Author : Barbara Will
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512824089
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope written by Barbara Will and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture--even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope, an edited volume of essays by leading scholars in Black studies, religious studies, and social justice history, looks back to the original 1993 text and forward into the future of racial understanding and healing in our current century, responding to Dr. West's own repeated insistence that we can only understand our present and future by looking back. By reengaging with West's book at this seminal moment, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope offers new points of entry into the thorny issues that the 1993 text addressed: the challenge of leadership in a culture marked by the legacy of white supremacy; the limited value of liberal affirmative action programs in promoting the affirmation of Black humanity; the dangerous seductions of African American conservatism and the question of Black self-regard (what West called "black nihilism"); the necessity and difficulty of cross-race solidarity and cross-religious affinity; the need to channel legitimate Black rage over untenable conditions of existence into productive opportunities and viewpoints. All of these issues are even more marked in American society today. The voices collected in this volume are the legitimate intellectual heirs of the original Race Matters. With essays that span the topics of history, politics, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, music, and aesthetics, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope is as wide-ranging as the thinker whose ideas it engages, interrogates, and celebrates. Contributors:Nkosi Du Bois Anderson, Paul A. Bové, Matthew M. Briones, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Susannah Heschel, Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Andrew Prevot, Brandon M. Terry, Cornel West, Barbara Will.
