scholarly journals Inside the Nation of Islam

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 198-200
Author(s):  
Natasha Persaud
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American History ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
African American History ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The North ◽  
Extensive Involvement

The author, who embraced the teachings of Louis Farrakhan's revampedNation of Islam (NOI) in the late I 970s to find solutions to America's raceproblems, left disillusioned in the mid-1990s. What he witnessed as hepassed through the organization's rank and file compelled him to compilehis experiences to give others a clearer understanding of the Nation's originsas well as its role concerning the issues facing African-Americans.Inside the Nation of Islam is divided into I I chapters and contains aforeword by Mike Wallace an epilogue by the author, extensive notes, abibliography, and an index. Also included are several photographs thatillustrate White's extensive involvement in the NOLWith a brief overview of African-American history prior to the NOI'screation, chapters 1 and 2 touch on the Harlem Renaissance, the origin ofthe Jim Crow laws, and the mass exodus of African-Americans from theSouth to the North. With the fall of similar resistance movements, theNOJ stepped in to address the bitter disillusionment that many of themexperienced upon their arrival in the North ...

scholarly journals Book Review: History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Trent Shotwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
African American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots by Thomas J. Davis chronicles the remarkable past of African Americans from the earliest arrival of their ancestors to the election of President Barack Obama. This work was produced to recognize every triumph and tragedy that separates African Americans as a group from others in America. By distinguishing the rich and unique history of African Americans, History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots provides an account of inspiration, courage, and progress. Each chapter details a significant piece of African American history, and the book includes numerous concise portraits of prominent African Americans and their contributions to progressing social life in the United States.

Re-imagining Christian Spirituality in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Seda ◽  
Khatija Bibi Khan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American History ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Belief System ◽  
African American History ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Metaphysical Belief ◽  
Freed Slaves

Forced migration and separation, which are integral to African-American history, coupled with the juridical, social and racial restrictions of slavery, inaugurated an insidious form of dislocation for African Americans: they lost their spiritual anchor in the gods of traditional Africa. With this loss came physical and ideational restlessness, which worsened with emancipation and merely occasioned another quest—a re-union of the physical, social and spiritual. In this paper we argue that Wilson, in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, foregrounds spirituality as the freed slaves’ primary anchor for self-authentication, and that this self-authentication and emancipation must be predicated on the subversion of Christian perspectives of personal redemption and on giving mainstream Christianity an African resonance. We further argue that Wilson presents personal redemption through deliberately subverting the metaphysical belief system the freed slaves were inducted into during slavery, namely Christianity. In other words, Wilson turns Christianity on its head to argue for a more Afrocentric approach to spirituality and personal redemption. The restless wanderings of his characters in search of freedom from physical bondage become a metaphor for a spiritual search. We argue that Bynum’s “Shiny Man” in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is an Afrocentric allusion to the Christ-like figure as the bearer of eternal redemption.

Synthetic learning environment games: Prototyping a humanities-based game for teaching African American history

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adams Greenwood-Ericksen ◽  
Stephen M. Fiore ◽  
Rudy McDaniel ◽  
Sandro Scielzo ◽  
Janis A. Cannon-Bowers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History
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