Let Nobody Turn Us Around

An African American Anthology
Herausgeber: Marable, Manning; Mullings, Leith

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 710
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1010g
• ISBN-13: 9780742560574
• ISBN-10: 0742560570
• Artikelnr.: 25856069

Autorenporträt

Manning Marable is M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Professor of African-American Studies and Director of the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University. Leith Mullings is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface to the First Edition Part 2 Preface to the Second Edition
Part 3 Introduction: Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the Black
Experience Part 4 Section 1. Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism,
1768-1861 Part 5 1. "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Part 6 2.
"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" Part 7 3. "Thus
Doth Ethiopia Stretch Forth Her Hand from Slavery, to Freedom and Equality"
Part 8 4. The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Part 9 5.
David Walker's "Appeal," 1829-1830 Part 10 6. The Statement of Nat Turner,
1831 Part 11 7. Slaves are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law Part 12 8.
"What If I Am a Woman?" Part 13 9. A Slave Denied the Rights to Marry,
Letter of Milo Thompson, Slave, 1834 Part 14 10. The Selling of Slaves,
Advertisement, 1835 Part 15 11. Solomon Northrup Describes a New Orleans
Slave Auction, 1841 Part 16 12. Cinque and the Amistad Revolt, 1841 Part 17
13. "Let Your Motto Be Resistance!" Part 18 14. "Slavery as It Is" Part 19
15. "A'nt' I a Woman?" Part 20 16. "A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of
Canada West" Part 21 17. A Black Nationalist Manifesto Part 22 18. "What to
the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Part 23 19. "No Rights That a White Man
Is Bound to Respect:" The Dred Scott Case and Its Aftermath Part 24 20.
"Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions"
Part 25 21. The Spirituals: "Go Down Moses" and "Didn't My Lord Deliver
Daniel" Part 26 Section 2. Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of
Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915 Part 28 1. "What the Black
Man Wants" Part 29 2. Henry McNeal Turner, Black Christian Nationalist Part
30 3. Black Urban Workers during Reconstruction Chapter 31 Anonymous
Document on the National Colored Labor Convention, 1869 Chapter 32 New York
Tribune Article on African-American Workers, 1870 Part 33 4. "Labor and
Capital Are In Deadly Conflict" Part 34 5. Edward Wilmot Blyden and the
African Diaspora Part 35 6. "The Democratic Idea Is Humanity" Part 36 7. "A
Voice from the South" Part 37 8. The National Association of Colored Women:
Mary Church Terrell and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Part 38 9. "I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings" Part 39 10. Booker T. Washington and the Politics of
Accommodation Chapter 40 "Atlanta Exposition Address" Chapter 41 "My View
of Segregation Laws" Part 42 11. William Monroe Trotter and the Boston
Guardian Part 43 12. Race and the Southern Worker Chapter 44 "A Negro Woman
Speaks" Chapter 45 "The Race Question a Class Question" Chapter 46 "Negro
Workers!" Part 47 13. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Crusader for Justice Part 48
14. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Chapter 49 Excerpts from "The
Conservation of Races" Chapter 50 Excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk
Part 51 15. The Niagara Movement, 1905 Part 52 16. Hubert Henry Harrison,
Black Revolutionary Nationalist Part 53 Section 3. From Plantation to
Ghetto: The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954
Part 54 1. Black Conflict over World War I Chapter 55 "Close Ranks" Chapter
56 "The Descent of Du Bois" Chapter 57 "Returning Soldiers" Part 58 2. "If
We Must Die" Part 59 3. Black Bolsheviks: Cyril V. Briggs and Claude McKay
Chapter 60 "What the African Blood Brotherhood Stands For" Chapter 61
"Soviet Russia and the Negro" Part 62 4. Marcus Garvey and the Universal
Negro Improvement Association Chapter 63 "Declaration of Rights of the
Negro Peoples of the World" Chapter 64 "An Appeal to the Conscience of the
Black Race to See Itself" Part 65 5. "Women as Leaders" Part 66 6. Langston
Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance Chapter 67 "The Negro Artist and the
Racial Mountain" Chapter 68 "My America" Chapter 69 Poems Part 70 7. "The
Negro Woman and the Ballot" Part 71 8. James Weldon Johnson and Harlem in
the 1920s Chapter 72 "Harlem: The Culture Capital" Part 73 9. Black Workers
in the Great Depression Part 74 10. The Scottsboro Trials, 1930s Part 75
11. "You Cannot Kill the Working Class" Chapter 76 "Speech to the Jury,
January 17, 1933" Chapter 77 Excerpt from You Cannot Kill the Working Class
Part 78 12. Hosea Hudson, Black Communist Activist Part 79 13. "Breaking
the Bars to Brotherhood" Part 80 14. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and the
Fight for Black Employment in Harlem Part 81 15. Black Women Workers during
the Great Depression Chapter 82 "Women of the Cotton Fields" Chapter 83 "I
Am a Domestic" Part 84 16. Southern Negro Youth Conference, 1939 Part 85
17. A. Philip Randolph and the Negro March on Washington Movement, 1941
Part 86 18. Charles Hamiliton Houston and the War Effort among African
Americans, 1944 Part 87 19. "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the
Negro Woman!" Part 88 20. "The Negro Artist Looks Ahead" Part 89 21.
Thurgood Marshall: The Brown Decision and the Struggle for School
Desegregation Part 90 Section 4. We Shall Overcome: The Second
Reconstruction, 1954-1975 Part 91 1. Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 Chapter 92 Jo Ann Robinson's Letter to
Mayor of Montgomery Chapter 93 Interview with Rosa Parks Chapter 94
Excerpts from Jo Ann Robinson's Account of the Boycott Part 95 2. Roy
Wilkins and the NAACP Part 96 3. The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, 1957 Part 97 4. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and
the Sit-In Movement, 1960 Part 98 5. Freedom Songs, 1960s Chapter 99 "We
Shall Overcome" Chapter 100 "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" Part
101 6. "We Need Group-Centered Leadership" Part 102 7. Martin Luther King,
Jr., and Nonviolence Chapter 103 Excerpt from "Nonviolence and Racial
Justice," 1957 Chapter 105 "I Have a Dream," 1963 Part 106 8. "The
Revolution Is at Hand" Part 107 9. "The Salvation of American Negroes Lies
in Socialism" Part 108 10. "The Special Plight and the Role of Black Women"
Part 109 11. "SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement," 1964 Part 110
12. Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam Part 111 13. Malcolm X and
Revolutionary Black Nationalism Chapter 112 "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Chapter 113 "Statement of the Organization of Afro-American Unity" Part 114
14. Black Power Chapter 115 "What We Want" Chapter 116 "Position Paper on
Black Power" Chapter 118 "'Black Power' and Coalition Politics" Part 119
15. "CORE Endorses Black Power" Part 120 16. "To Atone for Our Sins and
Errors in Vietnam" Part 121 17. Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party
for Self-Defense Part 122 18. "The People Have to Have the Power" Part 123
19. "I Am a Revolutionary Black Woman" Part 124 20. "Our Thing is DRUM"
Part 125 21. Attica "The Fury of Those Who Are Oppressed," 1971 Part 126
22. The National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana, March 1972 Part
127 23. "There Is No Revolution Without the People" Chapter 128 "The
Pan-African Party and the Black Nation" Chapter 129 Poem Part 130 24. "My
Sight Is Gone But My Vision Remains" Chapter 131 "On Returning to the
Struggle" Chapter 132 "A Letter to My Brothers and Sisters" Part 133
Section 5. The Future in the Present: Contemporary African-American
Thought, 1975 to the Present Part 134 1. Black Feminisms: The Combahee
River Collective Statement, 1977 Part 134 2. "Women in Prison: How We Are"
Part 135 4. "I am Your Sister" Part 135 3. "It's Our Turn" Part 136 5.
"Shaping Feminist Theory" Part 136 6. The Movement against Apartheid: Jesse
Jackson and Randall Robinson Chapter 137 "Don't Adjust to Apartheid"
Chapter 138 "State of the U.S. Anti-Apartheid Movement: An Interview with
Randall Robinson" Part 139 7. "Keep Hope Alive" Part 140 8.
"Afrocentricity" Part 141 9. The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Controversy,
1991 Chapter 142 "African-American Women in Defense of Ourselves" Chapter
143 "Can I Get a Witness?" Part 144 10. "Race Matters" Part 145 11. "Black
Anti-Semitism" Part 146 12. "Crime-Causes and Cures" Part 147 13. Louis
Farrakham: The Million Man March, 1995 Part 148 14. "A Voice from Death
Row" Part 149 15. "Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters" Chapter 150
"Statement by Sing Sing Prisoners" Chapter 151 "The Prison-Industrial
Complex: An Investment in Failure" Chapter 152 "River Hudson" Part 153 16.
Black Radical Congress, 1998 Chapter 154 "Principles of Unity" Chapter 155
"The Struggle Continues: Setting a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st
Century" Chapter 156 "The Freedom Agenda" Part 157 17. 2000 Presidential
Election Chapter 158 "Letter to Governor Bush from Chairperson Mary Frances
Berry," 2001 Part 159 18. Hip-Hop Activism Chapter 160 "What We Want"
Statement Hip-Hop Action Summit Network, 2001 Chapter 161 "Tookie Protocol
for Peace," 2004 Part 162 19. World Conference Against Racism-Durban, South
Africa Part 163 20. African Americans Respond to Terrorism and War Chapter
164 "Barbara Lee's Stand," 2001 Chapter 165 10 Points from Iraq Veterans
against the War, 2001 Part 166 21. The Cosby vs. Dyson Debate, 2004-2005
Chapter 167 Summary of "Dr. Bill Cosby Speaks at the 50th Anniversary
Commemoration of the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court
Decision" Chapter 168 Excerpt from "Is Bill Cosby Right?: or Has the Black
Middle Class Lost Its Mind?" Part 169 22. U.S. Senate Resolution Against
Lynching, 2005 Part 170 23. Hurricane Katrina Crisis, 2005 Chapter 171
"This is Criminal: Malik Rahim Reports from New Orleans," 2005 Part 172 24.
Barak Obama's Presidential Campaign, 2007-2008 Chapter 173 Excerpts from
National Democratic Party Convention Speech, 2004 Chapter 174 "A More
Perfect Union," 2008 Part 175 Permissions Part 176 Index Part 177 About the
Editors