Americans from Africa: Old Memories, New Moods

by Peter I. Rose

Overview

This book is the second of a two-volume set exploring the controversies about the experiences of Americans from Africa. It contains essays on the roots of protest, including the original "Confessions of Nat Turner;" the background and character of the Civil Rights Movement; the origins and impact of Black Power; and, finally, in "Negroes Nevermore," varied views on the meaning of Black Pride.

Included here are selections written by black and white social scientists, psychiatrists, historians, and political figures offered in careful juxtaposition. Among the contributors are Raymond and Alice Bauer, Robert Blauner, Stokely Carmichael, Erik Erikson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Joyce Ladner, C. Eric Lincoln, August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Tom Mboya, Gerald Mullin, Alvin Poussaint, and Mike Thelwell.

Volume I, Slavery and Its Aftermath, addresses four other issues: the retention of "Africanisms;" the impact of slavery on personality and culture; differences in the experiences of living in the South and North; and matters of community, class and family.

Originally published in 1970, these volumes have stood the test of time. Each of the issues considered still resonate in American society and all are critical to understanding many matters that still confront many Americans from Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138518803
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2017
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface to the Transaction Edition

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

I. BLACK PROTEST

Who Was Nat Turner?

1 Day to Day Resistance to Slavery
Raymond Bauer and Alice Bauer

2 The Roots of Black Nationalism
Eugene D. Genovese

3 Gabriel's Insurrection
Gerald W. Mullin

4 The Confessions of Nat Turner as Told to Thomas R. Gray
Nat Turner

5 William Styron: A Shared Ordeal
George Plimpton

6 The White Nat Turner
Mike Thelwell

Suggested Readings

Freedom Now!

7 Radicals and Conservatives: Black Protest in Twentieth-Century America
August Meier and Elliott Rudwick

8 The Social Context of Militancy
Gary T. Marx

9 The Crisis Which Bred Black Power
Nathan Wright, Jr.

10 The Americanization of Frantz Fanon
Aristide Zolberg and Vera Zolberg

11 The Revolutionary Myth
Lewis M. Killian

Suggested Readings

II. IN QUEST OF COMMUNITY

Whither Black Power?

12 What We Want
Stokely Carmichael

13 What "Black Power" Means to Negroes in Mississippi
Joyce Ladner

14 The Trouble with Black Power
Christopher Lasch

15 Black Rebellion and White Reaction
Aaron Wildavsky

16 Where Do We Go From Here?
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Suggested Readings

"Negroes" Nevermore

17 The Concept of Identity in Race Relations
Erik H. Erikson

18 The Self-Image of the Negro American
Alvin F. Poussaint

19 Mood Ebony: The Acceptance of Being Black
C. Eric Lincoln

20 What's in a Name?
Lerone Bennett, Jr.

21 Africa Conscious Harlem
Richard B. Moore

22 The American Negro Cannot Look to Africa for an Escape
Tom Mboya

23 Black Culture: Myth or Reality?
Robert Blauner

Suggested Readings

Index

Editorial Reviews

On Volume One and Volume Two: "This collection of papers is one of the best of an outpouring of new readers on race issues. . . . The editor, Peter I. Rose, has done a great service in bringing these groupings so coherently together. . . . Whether looked upon as matters of serious social policy or as crucial questions for further social research, responsible resolution of these issues still requires a great deal of important homework. Rose is to be congratulated for reminding us of this so powerfully with this thoughtfully organized reader." —Paul S. Denise, Contemporary Sociology "These two volumes provide a compendium of the kaleidoscope of roots, patterns, consequences, and meaning of the black protest." —Tommy Rogers, The Journal of Negro History "Taken together, the two volumes of the Americans from Africa series provide a comprehensive selection of articles on the black experience…. Peter I. Rose has done a masterful job of illuminating the central debates concerning the past, present, and future of the American Negro." —William McCord, Social Forces

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