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Book Synopsis Black Political Exodus 2020 by : Douglas Thomas
Download or read book Black Political Exodus 2020 written by Douglas Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking text on how African American political leadership has been savagely compromised is the result of over twenty years of research and teaching on college campuses throughout the Eastern United States. It uncovers the sinister relationship between Black politicians and white liberals, who have never valued Black life. In fact, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr pointed this out over fifty years ago in several writings and speeches. The Black politicians' neoliberal handlers deal with them as "powerless subordinates," writes King. "Whites know too well of his remoteness from his constituents, and they deal with him as a powerless subordinate. He is accorded a measure of dignity and personal respect but not political power." Unfortunately, these "powerless subordinates" have been appointed to leadership position over the Black community. For instance, many watched in horror as Congressman Jim Clyburn prostrated himself before Joe Biden during the South Carolina Primaries. He will certainly benefit financially from this lapdog posture, but the community as a whole will not progress with Biden in Power. Instead, they will further regress into deeper levels of stagnation. Sadly, Clyburn is simply a microcosm of the Black political establishment, and displays the lack of respect their white colleagues have for them.Again, Dr. King warned us over fifty years ago that politicians like Clyburn and Senator Harris would become the face of the community. "Most (Black Politicians) are elected by white leadership," writes King. "And elevated to position, supplied with resources and inevitably subjected to white control." This is the King that most mis-educated African Americans who support the white neoliberal agenda do not know. And, this is also why Black Political Exodus 2020 was written--to educate the community on how these "manufactured Black leaders" are appointed to position and controlled by white liberals. With this information, the Black community can learn how to develop a communal-vetting process to elect courageous individuals to represent their interests before neoliberalism; the new face of white supremacy. More importantly, the author outlines in detail, why compromised Black leadership is a greater danger to the "Collective" growth and development of the African American community than the Klan.
Book Synopsis Exodus Politics by : Robert J. Patterson
Download or read book Exodus Politics written by Robert J. Patterson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political strategies and ideologies of this movement paradoxically undermined the collective enfranchisement of black people. He argues that by narrowly conceptualizing civil rights in only racial terms and relying solely on a male figure, conventional African American leadership, though frequently redemptive, can also erode the very goals of civil rights. The author turns to contemporary African American writers such as Ernest Gaines, Gayl Jones, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson to show how they challenge the dominant models of civil rights leadership. He draws on a variety of disciplines—including black feminism, civil rights history, cultural studies, and liberation theology—in order to develop a more nuanced formulation of black subjectivity and politics. Patterson's connection of the concept of racial rights to gender and sexual rights allows him to illuminate the literature's promotion of more expansive models. By considering the competing and varied political interests of black communities, these writers reimagine the dominant models in a way that can empower communities to be self-sustaining in the absence of a messianic male leader.
Book Synopsis Pillars of Cloud and Fire by : Herbert Robinson Marbury
Download or read book Pillars of Cloud and Fire written by Herbert Robinson Marbury and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation. Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically, from the antebellum period and the Civil War through to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Obama era, to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time and to analyze its effect in transforming black social reality. For African American thinkers such as Absalom Jones, David Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances E. W. Harper, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the exodus story became the language-world through which freedom both in its sacred resonance and its civil formation found expression. This tradition, Marbury argues, has much to teach us in a world where fundamentalisms have become synonymous with “authentic” religious expression and American identity. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom.
Book Synopsis Excavating Exodus by : J. Laurence Cohen
Download or read book Excavating Exodus written by J. Laurence Cohen and published by African American Literature. This book was released on 2021 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excavating Exodus examines adaptations of Moses' story in novels, newspapers, and speeches from the antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. By asking how Moses became a touchstone for notions of race loyalty, Excavating Exodus traces how Black intellectuals reinvented the Mosaic model of charismatic male leadership"--
Book Synopsis Black Political Exodus by : Douglas Thomas
Download or read book Black Political Exodus written by Douglas Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans must change their perception of themselves before they can overcome the ravages of enslavement that continue to haunt the community one hundred and fifty-eight years after it supposedly ended. Why the lingering effects and is there anything that can be done to overcome them? Yes, it can be defeated, especially over-coming the psychological impact it continues to have on the Black psyche. First, African Americans and Africans throughout the world must realize that they have been programmed for self-destruction. This is why Harriet Tubman (Peace be Upon Her) said she would have freed thousands more enslaved Africans if only they knew they were slaves. This unknowing of one's true condition continues to curse billions of people throughout the world. Self-knowledge is key to human freedom. Until one knows who they are, and thoroughly understands their real condition, there is no help for them. Only after acknowledging one's helplessness and lack of knowledge can they overcome their psychological imprisonment.Enslaved Africans were programmed for destruction and its lingering negative effects are now too obvious to ignore. African people throughout the world are programmed to self-destruct and we see it happening on a daily basis. But it does not have to be that way. You can overcome the program by first acknowledging that it does exists, and that you are indeed its victim, and the deprogramming process can then begin. Once your mind is cleared of these programs of destruction, you can cast off the shackles that continue to psychologically enslave millions of people throughout the world
Book Synopsis Pillars of Cloud and Fire by : Herbert Robinson Marbury
Download or read book Pillars of Cloud and Fire written by Herbert Robinson Marbury and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exodus: Why I Became a Republican by : Peter Sherrill
Download or read book Exodus: Why I Became a Republican written by Peter Sherrill and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXODUS: WHY I BECAME A REPUBLICAN DETAILS THE CONFLICT OF A AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE WHO DECIDES AFTER RUNNING FOR POLITICAL OFFICE, THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE INCOMPETENT AND HAVE NO IDEA OF HOW TO TRULY GOVERN. HE ALSO REALIZES THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE VOTER RIGHTS BILL OVER FORTY YEARS AGO. HE ALSO DETAILS HOW BLACKS ARE NOT ANY BETTER OFF WITH BARACK IN THE WHITEHOUSE OR HAVING A BLACK ATTORNEY GENERAL. BLACKS ARE STILL LANGUISHING IN AMERICA, EVEN THOUGH WE GIVE ALL OF OUR SUPPORT TO THE DEMOCRATS. THE AUTHOR SUGGESTS AN EXODUS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PLANTATION AND THAT THE REAL OPPORTUNITY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Book Synopsis Exodus and Liberation by : John Coffey
Download or read book Exodus and Liberation written by John Coffey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Exodus and Liberation argues that the Exodus story carried one of the big ideas in Anglophone political culture - the idea of deliverance. In the sixteenth century, Calvinist rebels and reformers identified with Old Testament Israel as they sought liberation from "popish bondage." The Puritan Revolution of 1640-60 was depicted as England's Exodus, provoking a fierce contest for control of the biblical story. In the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution, Protestants turned the Exodus narrative and deliverance language against "political slavery." Revolutionary rhetoric exposed the contradiction between libertarian ideology and black chattel slavery. Abolitionists forged a theology of liberation, articulated in resonant biblical mottoes: "Let my People Go!", "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land," "Break every Yoke", "Release the Oppressed." African Americans cast themselves as the Children of Israel, forging a distinct identity and throwing into question the scriptural construction of the United States. Black migrations to the North were imagined as journeys to the Promised Land, and black Exodus politics climaxed in the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. Among American statesmen, foreign policy rhetoric continued to yoke Providence to Liberation. By the twenty-first century, both George W. Bush and Barack Obama laid claim to the Exodus story. Using sermons, speeches, pamphlets, song, verse, and iconography, Exodus and Liberation documents the extraordinary reach of these biblical traditions, demonstrating how the political reading of scriptural texts powerfully informed Protestant debates over slavery and liberty.
Book Synopsis Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction by : Nell Irvin Painter
Download or read book Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction written by Nell Irvin Painter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-05-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first full-length scholarly study of this migration and of the forces that produced it."—David H. Donald, New York Times Book Review The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
Book Synopsis The Warmth of Other Suns by : Isabel Wilkerson
Download or read book The Warmth of Other Suns written by Isabel Wilkerson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
Book Synopsis Exodus and Emancipation by : Kenneth Chelst
Download or read book Exodus and Emancipation written by Kenneth Chelst and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new perspective on the saga of the enslavement of the Jewish people and their departure from Egypt, this study compares the Jewish experience with that of African-American slaves in the United States, as well as the latter group’s subsequent fight for dignity and equality. This consideration dives deeply into the biblical narrative, using classical and modern commentaries to explore the social, psychological, religious, and philosophical dimensions of the slave experience and mentality. It draws on slave narratives, published letters, eyewitness accounts, and recorded interviews with former slaves, together with historical, sociological, economic, and political analyses of this era. The book explores the five major needs of every long-term victim and journeys through these five stages with the Israelite and the African-American slaves on their historical path toward physical and psychological freedom. This rich, multi-dimensional collage of parallel and contrasting experiences is designed to enrich readers’ understanding of the plight of these two groups.
Book Synopsis Let My People Live by : Kenneth N. Ngwa
Download or read book Let My People Live written by Kenneth N. Ngwa and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let My People Live reengages the narrative of Exodus through a critical, life-affirming Africana hermeneutic that seeks to create and sustain a vision of not just the survival but the thriving of Black communities. While the field of biblical studies has habitually divided "objective" interpretations from culturally informed ones, Kenneth Ngwa argues that doing interpretive work through an activist, culturally grounded lens rightly recognizes how communities of readers actively shape the priorities of any biblical interpretation. In the Africana context, communities whose identities were made disposable by the forces of empire and colonialism—both in Africa and in the African diaspora across the globe—likewise suffered the stripping away of the right to interpretation, of both sacred texts and of themselves. Ngwa shows how an Africana approach to the biblical text can intervene in this narrative of breakage, as a mode of resistance. By emphasizing the irreducible life force and resources nurtured in the Africana community, which have always preceded colonial oppression, the Africana hermeneutic is able to stretch from the past into the future to sustain and support generations to come. Ngwa reimagines the Exodus story through this framework, elaborating the motifs of the narrative as they are shaped by Africana interpretative values and approaches that identify three animating threats in the story: erasure (undermining the community's very existence), alienation (separating from the space of home and from the ecosystem), and singularity (holding up the individual over the collective). He argues that what he calls "badass womanism"—an intergenerational and interregional life force and epistemology of the people embodied in the midwives, Miriam, the Egyptian princess, and other female figures in the story—have challenged these threats. He shows how badass womanist triple consciousness creates, and is informed by, communal approaches to hermeneutics that emphasize survival over erasure, integration over alienation, and multiplicity over singularity. This triple consciousness surfaces throughout the Exodus narrative and informs the narrative portraits of other characters, including Moses and Yahweh. As the Hebrew people navigate the exodus journey, Ngwa investigates how these forces of oppression and resistance shift and take new shapes across the geographies of Egypt, the wilderness, and the mountain area preceding their passage into the promised land. For Africana, these geographies also represent colonial, global, and imperial sites where new subjectivities and epistemologies develop.
Download or read book Dispossession written by Pete Daniel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.
Download or read book African Exodus written by Chris Stringer and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Book A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book A New York Times Notable Book Once in a generation a book such as African Exodus emerges to transform the way we see ourselves. This landmark book, which argues that our genes betray the secret of a single racial stock shared by all of modern humanity, has set off one of the most bitter debates in contemporary science. "We emerged out of Africa," the authors cont, "less than 100,000 years ago and replaced all other human populations." Employing persuasive fossil and genetic evidence (the proof is in the blood, not just the bones) and an exceptionally readable style, Stringer and McKie challenge long-held beliefs that suggest we evolved separately as different races with genetic roots reaching back two million years.
Download or read book Terms of Refuge written by Court Robinson and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century (ever since the Japanese invasion of 1942), much of Southeast Asia has been racked by war. In the last 20 years alone, some three million people fled their homes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This book is their story. It is also the story of the international community's response. Spearheading this was the United Nations agency responsible, UNHCR. It pioneered innovations like the Orderly Departure Programme, anti-piracy and rescue-at-sea efforts, and later on, ambitious reintegration projects for returnees. Today the camps in Southeast Asia are closed. Half a million people have returned home. Over two million have started new lives in the United States, Canada, Australia and France. This compelling book is the history of this modern exodus. It also takes stock and poses important questions. How did the flight of refugees and international response evolve? How do we measure the achievements and the failures of that international effort? What has been the legacy in Asia itself? And what lessons can be drawn for use in other refugee situations around the world?
Book Synopsis Excavating Exodus by : Joshua Laurence Cohen
Download or read book Excavating Exodus written by Joshua Laurence Cohen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavating Exodus analyzes adaptations of Exodus in novels, newspapers, and speeches from the antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. Although Exodus has perennially served to mobilize resistance to oppression, Black writers have radically reinterpreted its meaning over the past two centuries. Changing interpretations of Moses’ story reflect evolving conceptions of racial identity, religious authority, gender norms, political activism, and literary form. Black writers transformed Moses from a paragon of race loyalty into an avatar of authoritarianism. Excavating Exodus identifies a rhetorical tradition initiated by David Walker and carried on by Martin Delany and Frances Harper that treats Moses’ loyalty to his fellow Hebrews as his defining characteristic. By the twentieth century, however, a more skeptical group of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and William Melvin Kelley, associated Moses with overbearing charismatic authority. This book traces the transition from Walker, who treated Moses as the epitome of self-sacrifice, to Kelley, who considered Moses a flawed model of leadership and a threat to individual self-reliance. By asking how Moses became a touchstone for notions of racial belonging, Excavating Exodus illuminates how Black intellectuals reinvented the Mosaic model of charismatic male leadership.
