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Walkin' the Talk: An Anthology of African American Studies / Edition 1
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- 0130420166
- ISBN-13:
- 9780130420169
- Pub. Date:
- 07/28/2002
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- Pearson
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ISBN-13: | 9780130420169 |
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Publisher: | Pearson |
Publication date: | 07/28/2002 |
Pages: | 832 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.93(d) |
Table of Contents
Preface | xiii | |
Introduction | xv | |
Foreword | xxi | |
Part 1 | New World Slavery | 1 |
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789) | 2 | |
Chapter 1 | 2 | |
Chapter 9 | 12 | |
from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787) | 24 | |
On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773) | 37 | |
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England (1776) | 37 | |
To His Excellency General Washington (1773) | 38 | |
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) | 40 | |
from Notes on the State of Virginia (1789) | 43 | |
Of National Characters (1754) | 49 | |
On National Characteristics (1764) | 52 | |
Varieties of the Human Species (1797) | 54 | |
from The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1975) | 58 | |
from The Black Jacobins (1963) | 66 | |
from The Other American Revolution (1980) | 75 | |
Part 2 | Black Resistance and Abolition | 79 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) | 80 | |
David Walker's Appeal To the Colored Citizens Of The World, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of The United States Of America (1831) | 96 | |
Article I96 | ||
Article II103 | ||
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1843) | 115 | |
from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) | 121 | |
Chapter II | 121 | |
Chapter VI | 124 | |
Chapter VII | 126 | |
Chapter X | 130 | |
from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) | 151 | |
Chapter III | 151 | |
Chapter XVII | 156 | |
Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention (1851) | 164 | |
from The Condition, Elevation, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (1852) | 165 | |
Chapter II | 165 | |
Chapter VI | 172 | |
Chapter VII | 173 | |
from Our Nig (1859) | 182 | |
Chapter I, "Mag Smith, My Mother" | 182 | |
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) | 186 | |
Chapter V, "The Trials of Girlhood" | 186 | |
Chapter VI, "The Jealous Mistress" | 188 | |
Chapter XII, "Fear of Insurrection" | 193 | |
from The Negro in the American Rebellion (1866) | 197 | |
Chapter VI, "The John Brown Raid" | 197 | |
The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights (1981) | 200 | |
Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom (1995) | 210 | |
Part 3 | Reconstruction | 219 |
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States | 220 | |
from Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868) | 222 | |
Chapter IX, "Behind the Scenes" | 222 | |
from Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1935) | 226 | |
Chapter VIII, "Transubstantiation of a Poor White" | 226 | |
Part 4 | The Jim Crow Era | 241 |
Bury Me in a Free Land (1864) | 242 | |
Aunt Chloe's Politics (1872) | 243 | |
Songs for the People (1895) | 243 | |
Woman's Political Future (1893) | 244 | |
from A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892) | 248 | |
"Has America a Race Problem; If So, How Can It Best Be Solved?" | 248 | |
From A Red Record (1895) | 258 | |
Chapter I, "The Case Stated" | 258 | |
Chapter VI, "History of Some Cases of Rape" | 264 | |
The Barbarous Decision of the Supreme Court (1889) | 274 | |
from Up From Slavery (1901) | 281 | |
Chapter XIV, "The Atlanta Exposition Address" | 281 | |
from The Sport of the Gods (1902) | 290 | |
Chapter VII, "In New York" | 290 | |
from The Souls of Black Folk (1903) | 295 | |
Chapter I, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" | 295 | |
Chapter III, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" | 301 | |
A New Crowd--A New Negro (1919) | 311 | |
The Caucasian Storms Harlem (1927) | 314 | |
The Future As I See It (1923) | 322 | |
Goodbye Christ (1932) | 326 | |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921) | 327 | |
The Weary Blues (1925) | 327 | |
Harlem [1] (1951) | 328 | |
Ballad of the Landlord (1940) | 329 | |
The Backlash Blues (1967) | 330 | |
Bombings in Dixie (1967) | 331 | |
If We Must Die (1919) | 332 | |
The White House (1922) | 332 | |
To the White Fiends (1919) | 333 | |
America (1921) | 333 | |
White Things (1923) | 334 | |
Common Dust (1922) | 335 | |
The Proletariat Speaks (1929) | 336 | |
Class Room (1929) | 338 | |
The Lynching (1928) | 339 | |
Bottled (1923) | 340 | |
Heritage (1923) | 342 | |
El Beso (1923) | 343 | |
from The Black Worker (1931) | 344 | |
Chapter XVIII, "The 'New' Negro and Post-War Unrest" | 344 | |
The Gilded Six-Bits (1933) | 356 | |
Insatiate (1936) | 365 | |
Lines to a Sophisticate (1936) | 366 | |
Part 5 | Civil Rights and Black Power | 367 |
from If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) | 368 | |
Chapter II | 368 | |
Chapter III | 372 | |
from White Man Listen! (1957) | 378 | |
Chapter 2, "Tradition and Industrialization" | 378 | |
American Negroes and Africa's Rise to Freedom (1958) | 395 | |
Letter From Birmingham Jail (1964) | 399 | |
Not just an American problem, but a world problem (1965) | 412 | |
The Slave (1964) | 431 | |
from The Fire Next Time (1963) | 456 | |
from No Name in the Street (1972) | 467 | |
from The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) | 478 | |
"The Intellectuals and Force and Violence" | 478 | |
from Soul on Ice (1968) | 504 | |
"On Becoming" | 504 | |
"The Black Man's Stake in Vietnam" | 512 | |
Riot (1969) | 517 | |
I Am a Black Woman (1969) | 518 | |
from The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1967) | 519 | |
Chapter 12 | 519 | |
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) | 526 | |
Chapter 19 | 526 | |
from Seize the Time (1970) | 529 | |
"The Panther Program" | 529 | |
"Why We Are Not Racists" | 535 | |
from The Black Aesthetic (1971) | 538 | |
"Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic" | 538 | |
the lost baby poem (1972) | 544 | |
Derrick Morrison | ||
Black Liberation and the Coming American Revolution (1974) | 546 | |
and when the revolution came (1975) | 562 | |
Part 6 | The Post-Industrial, Post-Civil Rights Era | 565 |
Power (1978) | 566 | |
from The Declining Significance of Race (1978) | 568 | |
Chapter 6, "Protests, Politics, and the Changing Black Class Structure" | 568 | |
from Sister Outsider (1984) | 583 | |
"Poetry Is Not a Luxury" | 583 | |
"The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" | 585 | |
from homegirls and handgrenades (1984) | 589 | |
"Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament" | 589 | |
"MIA's" | 591 | |
from Afrocentricity (1988) | 596 | |
Chapter 2, "The Constituents of Power" | 596 | |
move (1993) | 607 | |
from Beyond Black and White (1995) | 609 | |
from Monster (1993) | 616 | |
from Keeping Faith (1993) | 623 | |
Chapter 5, "The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual" | 623 | |
from Dilemmas of Black Politics (1993) | 636 | |
"Black Mayoralties and the New Black Politics: From Insurgency to Racial Reconciliation" | 636 | |
from Black Noise (1994) | 663 | |
Chapter 1, "Voices From the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production" | 663 | |
History and Black Consciousness (1995) | 678 | |
from Yo Mama's Disfunktional! (1997) | 690 | |
"Looking for the 'Real' Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto" | 690 | |
Race and Criminalization (1997) | 708 | |
Demobilization in the New Black Political Regime (1997) | 720 | |
African American Intercollegiate Athletes (2001) | 743 | |
from Dumping in Dixie (2000) | 757 | |
Chapter 1, "Environmentalism and Social Justice" | 757 | |
A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie! (1972) | 776 | |
Black People & Jesse Jackson II (1984) | 777 | |
Wise 10 (1995) | 796 | |
Wise 11 (1995) | 797 | |
Wise 12 (1995) | 797 | |
Wise 13 (1995) | 798 | |
Credits | 799 | |
Index | 803 |
Preface
The aim of this anthology is to provide a single affordable textbook that can be used for a variety of courses in African American Studies. It was invented out of necessity. In 1999, we found ourselves team teaching an introductory African American Studies course. In order to provide our students with all of the material that we wanted them to read, we had to order several expensive books and provide a packet of (mostly legal) copies. Despite the availability of an excellent array of single author introductory texts, mammoth literature anthologies, and all sorts of topical collections, we could find no single book that attempted to collect a sweep of primary texts and critical commentary that would allow us to survey the experience of Africans in~America from the eighteenth century to the present. Once the class had ended, and at the suggestion of Carrie Brandon at Prentice Hall, we set out to create the anthology that would allow us to teach our course without having to cobble together bits and pieces from a variety of disciplines and centuries. The result is Walkin' the Talk.
The book is grounded in the idea that African American history, politics, and culture are inseparable. As much as possible, we have tried to blur disciplinary boundaries, making no attempts to categorize our selections. We hope that this allows an instructor, rather than a book, to shape the direction and scope of a course. Our primary goal has been to create a book that can provide a rich context for each of its texts. We do not attempt to present Frederick Douglass as strictly a literary author, Angela Davis as strictly a political thinker, or Langston Hughes as only a poet. Rather, we tryto show how all of the writers in this anthology are contributors to the large and ongoing discussion that is African American discourse. And we hope that the book always encourages both students and instructors to recognize that this discourse doesn't end at the parlor or the classroom door, that the talk is never far from the walk. At the same time, we have tried to include a variety of discourses (such as the series of white supremacist tracts by eighteenth century philosophers) that help to illuminate the world context from which African American experiences emerge.
In selecting the texts for this anthology, we have also set out to correct what we see as a glaring omission in African American Studies. We have tried to represent and highlight the vibrant and rich tradition of African American radicalism. The dominant discourses of liberal integrationism and conservative nationalism are accounted for in most African American Studies textbooks, but African American radical and socialist thought rarely receive more than a brief mention. This attempt to be inclusive and to represent what is in fact a major tradition has led us to collect both texts by authors not usually anthologized, and not usually anthologized texts by always anthologized authors. In Walkin' the Talk readers will encounter the usually neglected voices of Nat Turner, A. Philip Randolph, Angela Davis, and Manning Marable. They will also find texts by W. E. B. Du Bois beyond The Souls of Black Folk, Langston Hughes's radical poetry, portions of Richard Wright's White Man, Listen!, and Amiri Baraka's extremely important but usually neglected work since 1975.
Our claims and goals are large ones, but if we have come even close to meeting them, we think this book will be useful in a variety of contexts. Walkin' the Talk should be ideal for interdisciplinary and introductory African American studies courses. It should also be a useful text for African American literature, history, and politics courses, especially those courses that want to create a larger context for their disciplinary discussions.
A lot of people have contributed to the making of this and deserve more than just the thanks we can offer here. We should begin by thanking the students in American Cultural Studies 204, especially Kim Morrison and Emily Thuma. The Bureau for Faculty Research at Western Washington University delivered timely funds. Christian Lee provided invaluable assistance along the way. The original readers of the proposal, Terry Kershaw, Virginia Tech; Kasey Morrison; University of Missouri-Columbia; Earl Smith, Wake Forest University; and Peter Ukpokodu, University of Kansas, all came through with important advice. We are extremely grateful for the counsel and insight of our friends and colleagues: Doug Park, Carol Guess, Donna Qualley, Adolph Reed, Jr., Bill Smith, Rick Emmerson, Christine Park, Mona Lyne, Hans von Rautenfeld, Jim Giffen, David Giffen, and June Hopkins. John Purdy and Laura Laffrado deserve special mention for their wonderful support. Ed Bereal's artistic insight and general grace have sustained us at key moments. The extremely patient and intelligent editing of Carrie Brandon is evident throughout the book. Tom DeMarco, Patty Donovan, and Karen Berry were both kind and helpful.
All thanks must always go to our families: Allison Giffen, Nicholas Lyne, Rebecca Johnson, Cedric Johnson, and Elizabeth Johnson.