By These Hands - Pinn, Anthony B
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The Black church is often praised for its contribution to Black culture and politics. More recently, Islam has been recognized as an important force in African American liberation. By These Hands demonstrates the crucial, often overlooked role that Humanism has played in African American struggles for dignity, power, and justice. Anthony Pinn collects the finest examples of African American Humanism and shows how irs embrace by a variety of prominent figures in African American thought and letters has served as the basis for activism and resistance to American racism and sexism. Pinn uncovers…mehr

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The Black church is often praised for its contribution to Black culture and politics. More recently, Islam has been recognized as an important force in African American liberation. By These Hands demonstrates the crucial, often overlooked role that Humanism has played in African American struggles for dignity, power, and justice. Anthony Pinn collects the finest examples of African American Humanism and shows how irs embrace by a variety of prominent figures in African American thought and letters has served as the basis for activism and resistance to American racism and sexism. Pinn uncovers little known treasures of African American literature such as The Slave Narrative of James Hay, in which an abused slave decides to rely on himself, rather than God for deliverance from the horrors of slavery, and a letter from Frederick Douglass which scandalized his religious friends by proclaiming, "One honest Abolitionist was a greater terror to slaveholders than whole acres of campmeeting preachers shouting glory to God." Essays by Zora Neal Hurston and Richard Wright demonstrate the profound influence of Humanism in the Harlem Rennaisance and pieces by James Farmer, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), and Huey Newton show Humanism's impact on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
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Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, where he also serves as the executive director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion. His books include Varieties of African-American Religious Experience, Why Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology, and By These Hands: A Documentary History of African-American Humanism (NYU Press, 2001).