The Modern African American Political Thought Reader
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The Modern African American Political Thought Reader
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"The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama." Ed. Angela Jones. New York: Routledge, 2013. xii+458 pp.
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I: The Antebellum Era: the Rise of Abolitionism
● David Walker / Article I: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery (from the "Appeal," 1830)
● David Walker / Article II: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance (from the "Appeal," 1830)
● David Walker / Article IV: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Colonizing Plan (from the "Appeal," 1830)
● Maria Stewart / Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality: The Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build, 1831
● Maria Stewart / Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, 1832
● Maria Stewart / Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, 1833
● Frederick Douglass / American Slavery, 1847
● Frederick Douglass / What Are the Colored People Doing for Themselves?, 1848
● Frederick Douglass / The Rights of Women, 1848
● Frederick Douglass / The Destiny of Colored Americans, 1849
● Frederick Douglass / The Claims of Our Common Cause, 1853
● Frederick Douglass / What Shall Be Done with the Slaves If Emancipated?, 1862
● Anna Julia Cooper / Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race, 1852
● Anna Julia Cooper / The Status of Woman in America, 1852
● Anna Julia Cooper / Has America a Race Problem: If So, How Can It Best Be Solved?, 1852
Part II: Reconstruction and Beyond: Debates over the Negro Problem and the Creation of Civil Rights Discourse
● Alexander Crummell / The Social Principle among a People and Its Bearning on Their Progress, 1875
● Alexander Crummell / The Dignity of Labour and Its Value to a New People, 1881
● Alexander Crummell / The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs, 1883
● Alexander Crummell / The Prime Need of the Negro Race, 1897
● Booker T. Washington / Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
● Booker T. Washington / Open Letter to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1898
● Booker T. Washington / The Negro and the Signs of Civilization, 1901
● Booker T. Washington / Statement on Suffrage, 1903
● Booker T. Washington / The Negro in the North: Are His Advantages as Great as in the South?, 1907
● Booker T. Washington / My Views of Segregation Laws, 1915
● Ida B. Wells / Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1915
● Ida B. Wells / A Red Record, 1895
● Ida B. Wells / Burning Human Beings Alive, 1900
● Ida B. Wells / Lynching Record, 1900
● William Monroe Trotter / The Boston
"Guardian," 1901
● William Monroe Trotter / Speech at Old Faneuil Hall, 1902
● William Monroe Trotter / Trotter's Challenge to Washington at the Boston Riot, 1903
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Strivings of the Negro People, 1897
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
● W. E. B. Du Bois / The Talented Tenth, 1903
● W. E. B. Du Bois / The Immediate Program of the American Negro, 1915
● W. E. B. Du Bois / White Co-workers, 1920
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Marxism and the Negro Problem, 1933
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy, 1933
● A. Philip Randolph / The Negro in Politics, 1918
● A. Philip Randolph / The State of the Race, 1923
● A. Philip Randolph / The Need of a Labor Background, 1927
● A. Philip Randolph / Hating All White People, 1927
● A. Philip Randolph / The Economic Crisis of the Negro, 1931
● Bayard Rustin / The Negro and Nonviolence, 1942
● Bayard Rustin / Civil Disobedience, Jim Crow, and the Armed Forces, 1948
● Bayard Rustin / Preamble to the March on Washington, 1963
● Bayard Rustin / From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement, 1964
● Bayard Rustin / Black Women and Women's Liberation, 1972
● Bayard Rustin / From Montgomery to Stonewall, 1986
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Some of the Things Negroes Desire: A Memorandum to the President, 1940
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Americans All: Which Way America?, 1947
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Recent Achievements of Negro Women, 1947
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Statement to President Truman at the White House Conference on February 28, 1951
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Preparing Ourselves for Community Living, 1952
● Mary McLeod Bethune / My Last Will and Testament, 1955
● Martin Luther King Jr. / Some Things We Must Do, 1957
● Martin Luther King Jr. / The Power of Nonviolence, 1957
● Martin Luther King Jr. / The Ethical Demands for Integration, 1962
● Martin Luther King Jr. / I Have a Dream, 1963
● Martin Luther King Jr. / Where We Are Going, 1967
Part III: Black Nationalism: Its Roots and Development
● Martin R. Delany / The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, 1852
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter I. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter II. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter IX. Capacity of Colored Men and Women as Citizen Members of Community
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XVII. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XVIII. "Republic of Liberia"
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XXI. Central and South America and the West Indies
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XXIII. Things as They Are
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XXIV. A Glance at Ourselves--Conclusion
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Christian Recorder," January 25, 1883
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Christian Recorder," June 21, 1883
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Voice of Missions," August 1893
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Voice of Missions," December 1893
● Marcus Garvey / Address to UNIA Supporters in Philadelphia, 1919
● Marcus Garvey / Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, 1920
● Marcus Garvey / Motive of the NAACP Exposed, 1923
● Marcus Garvey / What We Believe, 1924
● Malcolm X / Black Man's History, 1962
● Malcolm X / God's Judgment of White America, 1963
● Malcolm X / Message to the Grass Roots, 1963
● Malcolm X / The Ballot or the Bullet, 1964
● Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure) / What We Want, 1966
● Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure) / Toward Black Liberation, 1966
● Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure) / Berkeley Speech, 1966
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / The Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party, 1966
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / In Defense of Self-Defense, 1967
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / Black Soldiers as Revolutionaries to Overthrow the Ruling Class, 1969
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / Speech Delivered at Boston College, 1970
Part IV: Black Radical Feminism
● Claudia Jones / On the Right to Self-Determination for Negro People in the Black Belt, 1946
● Claudia Jones / An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women, 1949
● Claudia Jones / International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace, 1950
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Position of Women and Negroes, 1946
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Institutionalized Oppression vs. the Female, 1970
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Black Genocide, 1971
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Nobody Ever Died from a Blow Job, 1976
● Shirley Chisholm / Equal Rights for Women, 1969
● Shirley Chisholm / Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1970
● Shirley Chisholm / Announcement Seeking Democratic Nomination for President, 1972
● Shirley Chisholm / The Black Woman in Contemporary America, 1974
● Angela Y. Davis / Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation, 1971
● Angela Y. Davis / Facing Our Common Foe: Women and the Struggle against Racism, 1984
● Angela Y. Davis / Let Us All Rise Together: Radical Perspectives on Empowerment for Afro-American Women, 1988
Part V: Modern Black Conservatives: Why Black "Neo-Cons" Matter
● Clarence Thomas / Being Educated Black, 1980
● Clarence Thomas / Savannah State College Commencement Address, 1985
● Clarence Thomas / Why Black Americans Should Look to Conservative Policies, 1987
● Alan Keyes / The Crisis of Character (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Alan Keyes / The Race Card and Liberalism (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Alan Keyes / Welfarism and Ethnic Enmity (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Alan Keyes / Blacks and the GOP (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Michael Steele / Inventory Our Principles (excerpt from "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," 2009)
● Michael Steele / Take Back the Culture (excerpt from "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," 2009)
● Star Parker / Golden Chance for the NAACP, 2004
● Star Parker / The Answer to AIDS Is Values, 2004
● Star Parker / How the GOP Can Win the Black Vote, 2004
● Star Parker / Moving Back to Uncle Sam's Plantation, 2009
● Star Parker / Dr. King, Religion and Freedom, 2010
Part VI: The New Black Moderate: Obama and Beyond
● Barack Obama / 21st Century Schools for a 21st Century Economy, 2006
● Barack Obama / A More Perfect Union "The Race Speech," 2008
● Barack Obama / Speech at the Fatherhood Apostolic Church of God, 2008
● Barack Obama / NAACP Speech, 2009
Bibliography
Index
Part I: The Antebellum Era: the Rise of Abolitionism
● David Walker / Article I: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery (from the "Appeal," 1830)
● David Walker / Article II: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance (from the "Appeal," 1830)
● David Walker / Article IV: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Colonizing Plan (from the "Appeal," 1830)
● Maria Stewart / Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality: The Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build, 1831
● Maria Stewart / Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, 1832
● Maria Stewart / Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, 1833
● Frederick Douglass / American Slavery, 1847
● Frederick Douglass / What Are the Colored People Doing for Themselves?, 1848
● Frederick Douglass / The Rights of Women, 1848
● Frederick Douglass / The Destiny of Colored Americans, 1849
● Frederick Douglass / The Claims of Our Common Cause, 1853
● Frederick Douglass / What Shall Be Done with the Slaves If Emancipated?, 1862
● Anna Julia Cooper / Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race, 1852
● Anna Julia Cooper / The Status of Woman in America, 1852
● Anna Julia Cooper / Has America a Race Problem: If So, How Can It Best Be Solved?, 1852
Part II: Reconstruction and Beyond: Debates over the Negro Problem and the Creation of Civil Rights Discourse
● Alexander Crummell / The Social Principle among a People and Its Bearning on Their Progress, 1875
● Alexander Crummell / The Dignity of Labour and Its Value to a New People, 1881
● Alexander Crummell / The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs, 1883
● Alexander Crummell / The Prime Need of the Negro Race, 1897
● Booker T. Washington / Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
● Booker T. Washington / Open Letter to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1898
● Booker T. Washington / The Negro and the Signs of Civilization, 1901
● Booker T. Washington / Statement on Suffrage, 1903
● Booker T. Washington / The Negro in the North: Are His Advantages as Great as in the South?, 1907
● Booker T. Washington / My Views of Segregation Laws, 1915
● Ida B. Wells / Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1915
● Ida B. Wells / A Red Record, 1895
● Ida B. Wells / Burning Human Beings Alive, 1900
● Ida B. Wells / Lynching Record, 1900
● William Monroe Trotter / The Boston
"Guardian," 1901
● William Monroe Trotter / Speech at Old Faneuil Hall, 1902
● William Monroe Trotter / Trotter's Challenge to Washington at the Boston Riot, 1903
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Strivings of the Negro People, 1897
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
● W. E. B. Du Bois / The Talented Tenth, 1903
● W. E. B. Du Bois / The Immediate Program of the American Negro, 1915
● W. E. B. Du Bois / White Co-workers, 1920
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Marxism and the Negro Problem, 1933
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy, 1933
● A. Philip Randolph / The Negro in Politics, 1918
● A. Philip Randolph / The State of the Race, 1923
● A. Philip Randolph / The Need of a Labor Background, 1927
● A. Philip Randolph / Hating All White People, 1927
● A. Philip Randolph / The Economic Crisis of the Negro, 1931
● Bayard Rustin / The Negro and Nonviolence, 1942
● Bayard Rustin / Civil Disobedience, Jim Crow, and the Armed Forces, 1948
● Bayard Rustin / Preamble to the March on Washington, 1963
● Bayard Rustin / From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement, 1964
● Bayard Rustin / Black Women and Women's Liberation, 1972
● Bayard Rustin / From Montgomery to Stonewall, 1986
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Some of the Things Negroes Desire: A Memorandum to the President, 1940
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Americans All: Which Way America?, 1947
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Recent Achievements of Negro Women, 1947
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Statement to President Truman at the White House Conference on February 28, 1951
● Mary McLeod Bethune / Preparing Ourselves for Community Living, 1952
● Mary McLeod Bethune / My Last Will and Testament, 1955
● Martin Luther King Jr. / Some Things We Must Do, 1957
● Martin Luther King Jr. / The Power of Nonviolence, 1957
● Martin Luther King Jr. / The Ethical Demands for Integration, 1962
● Martin Luther King Jr. / I Have a Dream, 1963
● Martin Luther King Jr. / Where We Are Going, 1967
Part III: Black Nationalism: Its Roots and Development
● Martin R. Delany / The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, 1852
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter I. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter II. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter IX. Capacity of Colored Men and Women as Citizen Members of Community
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XVII. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XVIII. "Republic of Liberia"
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XXI. Central and South America and the West Indies
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XXIII. Things as They Are
● Martin R. Delany / Chapter XXIV. A Glance at Ourselves--Conclusion
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Christian Recorder," January 25, 1883
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Christian Recorder," June 21, 1883
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Voice of Missions," August 1893
● Henry McNeal Turner / "The Voice of Missions," December 1893
● Marcus Garvey / Address to UNIA Supporters in Philadelphia, 1919
● Marcus Garvey / Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, 1920
● Marcus Garvey / Motive of the NAACP Exposed, 1923
● Marcus Garvey / What We Believe, 1924
● Malcolm X / Black Man's History, 1962
● Malcolm X / God's Judgment of White America, 1963
● Malcolm X / Message to the Grass Roots, 1963
● Malcolm X / The Ballot or the Bullet, 1964
● Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure) / What We Want, 1966
● Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure) / Toward Black Liberation, 1966
● Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure) / Berkeley Speech, 1966
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / The Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party, 1966
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / In Defense of Self-Defense, 1967
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / Black Soldiers as Revolutionaries to Overthrow the Ruling Class, 1969
● The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale / Speech Delivered at Boston College, 1970
Part IV: Black Radical Feminism
● Claudia Jones / On the Right to Self-Determination for Negro People in the Black Belt, 1946
● Claudia Jones / An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women, 1949
● Claudia Jones / International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace, 1950
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Position of Women and Negroes, 1946
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Institutionalized Oppression vs. the Female, 1970
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Black Genocide, 1971
● Florynce "Flo" Kennedy / Nobody Ever Died from a Blow Job, 1976
● Shirley Chisholm / Equal Rights for Women, 1969
● Shirley Chisholm / Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1970
● Shirley Chisholm / Announcement Seeking Democratic Nomination for President, 1972
● Shirley Chisholm / The Black Woman in Contemporary America, 1974
● Angela Y. Davis / Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation, 1971
● Angela Y. Davis / Facing Our Common Foe: Women and the Struggle against Racism, 1984
● Angela Y. Davis / Let Us All Rise Together: Radical Perspectives on Empowerment for Afro-American Women, 1988
Part V: Modern Black Conservatives: Why Black "Neo-Cons" Matter
● Clarence Thomas / Being Educated Black, 1980
● Clarence Thomas / Savannah State College Commencement Address, 1985
● Clarence Thomas / Why Black Americans Should Look to Conservative Policies, 1987
● Alan Keyes / The Crisis of Character (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Alan Keyes / The Race Card and Liberalism (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Alan Keyes / Welfarism and Ethnic Enmity (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Alan Keyes / Blacks and the GOP (excerpt from "Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny," 1996)
● Michael Steele / Inventory Our Principles (excerpt from "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," 2009)
● Michael Steele / Take Back the Culture (excerpt from "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," 2009)
● Star Parker / Golden Chance for the NAACP, 2004
● Star Parker / The Answer to AIDS Is Values, 2004
● Star Parker / How the GOP Can Win the Black Vote, 2004
● Star Parker / Moving Back to Uncle Sam's Plantation, 2009
● Star Parker / Dr. King, Religion and Freedom, 2010
Part VI: The New Black Moderate: Obama and Beyond
● Barack Obama / 21st Century Schools for a 21st Century Economy, 2006
● Barack Obama / A More Perfect Union "The Race Speech," 2008
● Barack Obama / Speech at the Fatherhood Apostolic Church of God, 2008
● Barack Obama / NAACP Speech, 2009
Bibliography
Index
Item Number
A0561