Children of Bondage. The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South. By Allison Davis and John Dollard, The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes. Selected and edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee, 12 Million Black Voices. A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. By Richard Wright, The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880. By Alrutheus Ambush Taylor and Gullah. Negro Life in the Carolina Sea Islands. By Mason Crum

Social Forces ◽  
1942 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-512
Author(s):  
G. B. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sea Islands ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Black Voices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Folk History

scholarly journals 12 Million Black Voices. A Folk History of the Negro in the United States.

1942 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Edgar T. Thompson ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Edwin Rosskam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Voices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Folk History

Religion, Race, and Humanism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony B. Pinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unitarian Universalist ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lorraine Hansberry

This chapter explores the history of humanism within African American communities. It positions humanist thinking and humanism-inspired activism as a significant way in which people of African descent in the United States have addressed issues of racial injustice. Beginning with critiques of theism found within the blues, moving through developments such as the literature produced by Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, to political activists such as W. E. B. DuBois and A. Philip Randolph, to organized humanism in the form of African American involvement in the Unitarian Universalist Association, African Americans for Humanism, and so on, this chapter presents the historical and institutional development of African American humanism.

A Weekend with Richard Wright

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 798-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beb Vuyk ◽  
Brian Russell Roberts ◽  
Keith Foulcher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Peace ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Newly Independent States

In 1955 the famous African American writer Richard Wright traveled to Southeast Asia to observe and report on the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. A watershed moment in the history of decolonization, the meeting, also known as the Bandung Conference, drew representatives from twenty-nine newly independent Asian and African countries, including the conference's sponsors: Burma, Ceylon, India, and Indonesia. At the conference's conclusion, as part of a “final communique,” participating countries issued their Declaration on the Promotion of World Peace and Cooperation, which advanced ten principles, ranging from “[r]espect for fundamental human rights” to “[r]ecognition of the equality of all races and of the equality of all nations” to abstention from “serv[ing] the particular interests of any big powers” (Kahin 84). As an important precursor of the Nonaligned Movement, which was officially organized in 1961, the Bandung Conference set the stage for newly independent states to assert and strengthen their autonomy in a world often polarized by the United States and the Soviet Union.

Review of A brief history of the United States.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 414-414
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of

An American Language

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosina Lozano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

An American Language is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States. The nation has always been multilingual and the Spanish language in particular has remained as an important political issue into the present. After the U.S.-Mexican War, the Spanish language became a language of politics as Spanish speakers in the U.S. Southwest used it to build territorial and state governments. In the twentieth century, Spanish became a political language where speakers and those opposed to its use clashed over what Spanish's presence in the United States meant. This book recovers this story by using evidence that includes Spanish language newspapers, letters, state and territorial session laws, and federal archives to profile the struggle and resilience of Spanish speakers who advocated for their language rights as U.S. citizens. Comparing Spanish as a language of politics and as a political language across the Southwest and noncontiguous territories provides an opportunity to measure shifts in allegiance to the nation and exposes differing forms of nationalism. Language concessions and continued use of Spanish is a measure of power. Official language recognition by federal or state officials validates Spanish speakers' claims to US citizenship. The long history of policies relating to language in the United States provides a way to measure how U.S. visions of itself have shifted due to continuous migration from Latin America. Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are crucial arbiters of Spanish language politics and their successes have broader implications on national policy and our understanding of Americans.

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