Slave Culture

Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20008411
AutoresSterling Stuckey (autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Páginas496
Fecha de publicación2013-10-28
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaSlave Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931675.001.0001
OpenAlexW4241404507
Open LibraryOL28513843M
ISBN9780199931675
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas197

This book traces the roots of black nationalist thought and culture in America over several centuries. Arguing that African influences were pervasive among slaves and have profoundly influenced African American and American life over the past 150 years, it considers the central question of how a single culture was formed out of a multiplicity of African ethnic groups in slavery. The book argues that the common culture fashioned by slaves gave rise to a Pan-Africanism that gave slaves identity and ideology that were related to the creative process itself, which made unity ever more likely. This was especially true of the blues, first heard by Frederick Douglass in the 1820s and written about in 1845 in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, another way in which the book establishes that the roots of black nationalism began as cultural and aesthetic forms rather than as social and political conditions. Disciplines such as anthropology, art history, folklore, and linguistics demonstrate that cultural practices that were widespread in slave communities had African antecedents. Slave Culture looks at how W.E.B. Du Bois, David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, Paul Robeson, and Douglass played roles in putting together nationalist theory. Nationalism found here was fashioned by those not mainly concerned with racial identity but with racial justice, and no one treated in this volume preferred racial separatism and the primacy of color over racial equality

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · Cultural nationalism · Folklore · Identity (music) · Ideology · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 19th century · Africa · African American Studies · African americans · Esclavage · Ethnic Studies · Ethnische Identität · Identité collective · Identite ethnique · Kultur · Nationalisme · Negers · Noirs · Noirs américains · Nonfiction · Pan-Africanism · Panafricanisme · Panafrikanismus · Race identity · Schwarze · Sklave · Sklaverei · Slavernij · Slavery · Social conditions · Social Science · united states