Imperial Embellishment

Black Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 90-118
Author(s):  
Nadia Nurhussein
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
The World

This chapter examines the case of Harry Foster Dean, whose “The Pedro Gorino: The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in His Attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire” recounts the tale of his ambition to build a black empire in Africa. Dean's effort led one of the major British participants in the Scramble for Africa to call him “the most dangerous ‘negro’ in the world.” The chapter also addresses the unofficial diplomatic role of William Henry Ellis, a flashy African American millionaire and the first American to visit with Emperor Menelik in 1903. Ellis was not the only African American to visit Abyssinia prior to the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. In 1922, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of the famed Madame C. J. Walker and host of a Harlem Renaissance salon, visited Empress Zauditu. Ellis did his best to curry favour with Emperor Menelik but was rumored to be planning to oust the emperor in order to take his seat on the throne.

The Harlem Renaissance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Hill ◽  
Sophie Meridien ◽  
Keith Holt ◽  
Daniel Boyle ◽  
Paul Ardoin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
African American Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Breaking Work ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing of artistic, intellectual, musical, and literary accomplishments by African Americans between the World Wars. The movement took its name from Harlem, a neighborhood on the northern section of Manhattan Island. Harlem became the de facto center of the African American community in New York City, and many of the most important figures of the Renaissance called it home. During the Renaissance, intellectuals published ground-breaking work that explored philosophical questions and political possibilities for African Americans that would be explored throughout the twentieth century.

Signifying on the World Religions Paradigm

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Newton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
World Religions ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The World

The growing role of critical theory and postcolonial inquiry within the religious studies classroom has challenged the utility of the World Religions Paradigm. This has created a pedagogical opportunity for recreating the Religion 101 course. This essay introduces a course that uses signifying theory and the African American experience to consider "religion."

scholarly journals Harlem Renaissance Literary Productions: Context, Role, Philosophy and Objective In “The Negro’s Tragedy”

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-203
Author(s):  
Beugre Zouankouan Stéphane
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
Poetic Creation ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

This paper aims to show and analyze how through “an outstanding poetic creation”, Claude McKay describes clearly the context, role, philosophy and objective of the Harlem Renaissance literary productions while describing his own role and vocation as an African American writer. Indeed by describing his own role as a pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance Movement, “this assertive poem” is actually a précis and paradigm of the motives and chart gathering all those black pioneer writers engaged in this literary movement. This paper provides, through the hermeneutic study of this symptomatic sonnet about the Negro’s tragedy; an analysis of the context in which the Harlem Renaissance literary productions had been produced, the role of those literary productions, the main philosophy surrounding the literary productions of this Black Movement and finally the objective targeted by those literary productions. The hermeneutic approach is sustained by the socio-criticism, African American criticisms and stylistics theories to better characterize the semantic and social scope of this poem.  

Grief and Mourning

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
John Parker
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
New World ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Very High

This chapter considers the most striking aspect of the scene that greeted the young Charles Bannerman, the Gold Coast's first African newspaperman, as he entered his late aunt's house: the dominant role of women in managing the newly dead and in exuberant expressions of grief and rituals of mourning. It discusses the gendered dynamics of grief and mourning and the sensory spectacle of funeral celebrations. The chapter analyzes the startling juxtaposition of grief and gaiety in funeral celebrations, the combination of 'very high spirits' and 'unmistakable signs of grief', that struck Bannerman. Neither of these features was unique to local funerary cultures: distinctions in gender roles with regard to the expression of grief and to scripted mourning rituals have been noted across time in many parts of the world, while revelry has been observed as a characteristic of African American funerals in the slave and post-emancipation societies of the New World. The chapter investigates how gender roles informed grief and mourning among the Akan and their neighbours. It then explains the widely reported combination of intense lamentation and explosive revelry in funeral celebrations.

Adaptation to college among African American students: The role of trauma and PTSD

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guler Boyraz ◽  
Sharon G. Horne ◽  
Archandria C. Owens ◽  
Aisha P. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Adaptation To College

The essence and causes of the spiritual and moral decline of mankind in the XX century

1998 ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
V. Tolkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Social Force ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Religion

One of the most important reasons for such a clearly distressed state of society was the decline of religion as a social force, the external manifestation of which is the weakening of religious institutions. "Religion," Baha'u'llah writes, "is the greatest of all means of establishing order in the world to the universal satisfaction of those who live in it." The weakening of the foundations of religion strengthened the ranks of ignoramuses, gave them impudence and arrogance. "I truly say that everything that belittles the supreme role of religion opens way for the revelry of maliciousness, inevitably leading to anarchy. " In another Tablet, He says: "Religion is a radiant light and an impregnable fortress that ensures the safety and well-being of the peoples of the world, for God-fearing induces man to adhere to the good and to reject all evil." Blink the light of religion, and chaos and distemper will set in, the radiance of justice, justice, tranquility and peace. "

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