I am because we are: readings in Black philosophy

777 Pages·1995·1.85 MB·English

by  Fred L. Hord

I Am Because We Are : Readings in Black
title:
Philosophy
author: Hord, Fred L.
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin: 0870239643
print isbn13: 9780870239649
ebook isbn13: 9780585142098
language: English
Blacks--Race identity, Identity, Social
subject
groups--Philosophy, Philosophy, Black.
publication date: 1995
lcc: DT15.I15 1995eb
ddc: 305.8/96
Blacks--Race identity, Identity, Social
subject:
groups--Philosophy, Philosophy, Black.
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I Am Because We Are
Readings in Black Philosophy
Edited with an introduction by
Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara)
and Jonathan Scott Lee
University of Massachusetts Press AMHERST
Page iv
Copyright © 1995 by
The University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
LC 95-1249
ISBN 0-87023-964-3(cloth); 965-1(pbk.)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
I am because we are: readings in Black philosophy / edited with an
introduction by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara), and Jonathan
Scott Lee.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87023-964-3 (cloth). ISBN 0-87023-965-1
1. BlacksRace identity. 2. Identity. 3. Social groups
Philosophy. 4. Philosophy, Black. I. Hord, Fred L. II. Lee,
Jonathan Scott.
DT15.I15 1995
305.8'96dc20 95-1249
CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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For my parents,
Reverend Noel E. Hord
and
Jessie Tyler Hord,
who taught me by precept and example
that I am because we are.
F L H
For Peggy Berg,
for her strength,
her spirit, and her love.
J S L
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
"I am because we are": An Introduction to Black 1
Philosophy
Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott
Lee
AFRICA
Introduction 17
The Declarations of Innocence 21
The Teachings of Ptahhotep 24
An Interview with H. Odera Oruka 32
Paul Mbuya Akoko
Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 45
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Consciencism 55
Kwame Nkrumah
UjamaaThe Basis of African Socialism 65
Julius K. Nyerere
Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National 73
Liberation Struggle
Amilcar Cabral
from Myth, Literature, and the African World 84
Wole Soyinka

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Feminism and Revolution 94
Awa Thiam
We Are Committed to Building a Single Nation in Our 108
Country
Nelson Mandela
THE CARIBBEAN
Introduction 117
The Call of Providence to the Descendants of Africa in 121
America
Edward W. Blyden
Africa for the Africans 136
Marcus Garvey
The Future as I See It 140
Marcus Garvey
from So Uncle Said 145
Jean Price-Mars
The West Indian Middle Classes 152
C. L. R. James
from Discourse on Colonialism 162
Aimé Césaire
Racism and Culture 172
Frantz Fanon
Black Power, a Basic Understanding 182
Walter Rodney
The Shadow of the Whip: A Comment on Male-Female 189
Relations in the Caribbean
Merle Hodge
NORTH AMERICA
Introduction 195
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Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 203
1852
Frederick Douglass
The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America219
to Africa
Alexander Crummell
Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and 231
Progress of a Race
Anna Julia Cooper
The Atlanta Exposition Address 243
Booker T. Washington
Does Race Antipathy Serve Any Good Purpose? 247
W. E. B. Du Bois
On Being Ashamed of Oneself: An Essay on Race Pride 250
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Concept of Race 255
W. E. B. Du Bois
The New Negro 261
Alain Locke
Speech on "Black Revolution" (New York, April 8, 1964) 272
Malcolm X
Black Power 285
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Radical Perspectives on the Empowerment of Afro- 296
American Women: Lessons for the 1980s
Angela Y. Davis
Philosophy, Ethnicity, and Race 304
Lucius Outlaw