![]() ![]() ![]() Evans, Aaron David Gresson III, Claudrena N. This volume sets out to delineate a distinctive Black intellectual tradition rooted in the understandings and experiences of people of African descent. ![]() Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberation.Įxpansive in scope and interdisciplinary in practice, The Black Intellectual Tradition delves into the ideas that animated a people’s striving for full participation in American life.Ĭontributors: Derrick P. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals performers and protest activists institutions and organizations and educators and religious leaders. ![]() Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thoughtįrom 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. ![]()
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