Author: Joseph Ohiomogben OkpakuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Arts and Civilization of Black and African Peoples: Black civilization and the mass media
Author: Joseph Ohiomogben OkpakuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Arts and Civilization of Black and African Peoples: Black civilization and literature
Author: Joseph Ohiomogben OkpakuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Arts and Civilization of Black and African Peoples: Black civilization and the arts
Author: Joseph Ohiomogben OkpakuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The African Origin of Civilization
Author: Cheikh Anta DiopPublisher:
ISBN: 9781938803611
Category : Black race
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From the Publisher: Edited and translated by Mercer Cook. Laymen and scholars alike will welcome the publication of this one-volume translation of the major sections of C.A. Diop's two books, Nations negres et culture and Anteriorite des civilizations negres, which have profoundly influenced thinking about Africa around the world. It was largely because of these works that, at the World Festival of the Arts held in Dakar in 1966, Dr. Diop shared with the late W.E.B. DuBois an award as the writer who had exerted the greatest influence on Negro thought in the 20th century.
The Arts and Civilization of Black and African Peoples: Black civilization and science & technology
Author: Joseph Ohiomogben OkpakuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
African Americans and Africa
Author: Nemata Amelia Ibitayo BlydenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.
Blacks in Antiquity
Author: Frank M. SnowdenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674076266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.
The Ebony Column
Author: Eric Ashley HairstonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572339845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In The Ebony Column, Eric Ashley Hairston begins a new thread in the ongoing conversation about the influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on U.S. civilization and education. While that discussion has yielded many exceptional insights into antiquity and the American experience, it has so regularly elided the African American component that all classical influence on black writing and thought seems to vanish. That omission, Hairston contends, is disturbing not least because of its longevity— from an early period of overt stereotyping and institutionalized racism right up to the contemporary and, one would hope, more cosmopolitan and enlightened era. Challenging and correcting that persistent shortsightedness, Hairston examines several prominent black writers’ and scholars’ deep investment in the classics as individuals, as well as the broader cultural investment in the classics and the values of the ancient world. Beginning with the late-eighteenth-century verse of Phillis Wheatley, whose classically inspired poems functioned as a kind of Trojan horse to defeat white oppression, Hairston goes on to consider the oratory of Frederick Douglass, whose rhetoric and ideas of virtue were much influenced by Cicero, and the writings of educator Anna Julia Cooper, whose classical training was a key source of her vibrant feminism. Finally, he offers a fresh examination of W. E. B. DuBois’s seminal The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and its debt to antiquity, which volumes of commentary have largely overlooked. The first book to appear in a new series, Classicism in American Culture, The Ebony Column passionately demonstrates how the myths, cultures, and ideals of antiquity helped African Americans reconceptualize their role in a Euro-American world determined to make them mere economic commodities and emblems of moral and intellectual decay. To figures such as Wheatley, Douglass, Cooper, and DuBois, classical literature offered striking moral, intellectual, and philosophical alternatives to a viciously exclusionary vision of humanity, Africanity, the life of the citizen, and the life of the mind.
The Arts and Civilization of Black and African Peoples: Black civilization and religion
Author: Joseph Ohiomogben OkpakuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
From Slave to Pharaoh
Author: Donald B. RedfordPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421404095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. These interactions resulted in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty in 671 B.C. by an invading Assyrian army. Redford traces the development of Egyptian perceptions of race as their dominance over the darker-skinned peoples of Nubia and the Sudan grew, exploring the cultural construction of spatial and spiritual boundaries between Egypt and other African peoples. Redford focuses on the role of racial identity in the formulation of imperial power in Egypt and the legitimization of its sphere of influence, and he highlights the dichotomy between the Egyptians' treatment of the black Africans it deemed enemies and of those living within Egyptian society. He also describes the range of responses—from resistance to assimilation—of subjugated Nubians and Sudanese to their loss of self-determination. Indeed, by the time of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the culture of the Kushite kings who conquered Egypt in the late eighth century B.C. was thoroughly Egyptian itself. Moving beyond recent debates between Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial characteristics of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through surviving texts and artifacts, while at the same time providing a compelling account of war, conquest, and culture in the ancient world.