African Americans and Africa
African Americans and Africa

Author: Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0300244916

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An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.

Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations
Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations

Author: Harry N. K. Odamtten

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1628953659

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Distinguished by its multidisciplinary dexterity, this book is a masterfully woven reinterpretation of the life, travels, and scholarship of Edward W. Blyden, arguably the most influential Black intellectual of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces Blyden’s various moments of intellectual transformation through the multiple lenses of ethnicity, race, religion, and identity in the historical context of Atlantic exchanges, the Back-to-Africa movement, colonialism, and the global Black intellectual movement. In this book Blyden is shown as an African public intellectual who sought to reshape ideas about Africa circulating in the Atlantic world. The author also highlights Blyden’s contributions to different public spheres in Europe, in the Jewish Diaspora, in the Muslim and Christian world of West Africa, and among Blacks in the United States. Additionally, this book places Blyden at the pinnacle of Afropublicanism in order to emphasize his public intellectualism, his rootedness in the African historical experience, and the scholarship he produced about Africa and the African Diaspora. As Blyden is an important contributor to African studies, among other disciplines, this volume makes for critical scholarly reading.

Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

Author: Teshale Tibebu

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1580464289

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A critical study of Edward Wilmot Blyden, whose voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century.

Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race

Author: Edward Wilmot Blyden

Publisher: Black Classic Press

Published: 1993-06

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780933121416

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A native of St. Thomas, West Indies, Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) lived most of his life on the African continent. He was an accomplished educator, linguist, writer and world traveller, who strongly defended the unique character of Africa and its people. Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race is an essential collection of his writings on race, culture, and the African Personality.

African Life and Customs
African Life and Customs

Author: Edward Wilmot Blyden

Publisher: Black Classic Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780933121430

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In African Life and Customs, Blyden examined the culture of "pure" Africans-- those untouched by European and Asiatic influences. He identified the family as the basic unit in African society and polygamy as the foundation of African families. He described African social systems as cooperative; everyone worked for each other. No one went without work, food, or clothing. Blyden challenged white racial theorists who held Africans were inferior and whose arguments supported their preconceived ideas. He assumed Africans to be "distinct" rather than inferior, and he analyzed African culture within the context of African social experiences.

The Pan-African Pantheon
The Pan-African Pantheon

Author: Adekeye Adebajo

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-03-29

Total Pages: 893

ISBN-13: 1526156806

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With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan-Africanism, this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the intellectual thinking and contributions to Pan-Africanism. The book explores the history of Pan-Africanism and quest for reparations, early pioneers of Pan-Africanism as well as key activists and politicians, and Pan-African philosophy and literati. Diverse and key figures of Pan-Africanism from Africa, the Caribbean, and America are covered by these chapters, including: Edward Blyden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Amy Ashwood Garvey, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Franz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Arthur Lewis, Maya Angelou, C.L.R. James, Ruth First, Ali Mazrui, Wangari Maathai, Thabo Mbeki, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Chimamanda Adichie. While acknowledging the contributions of these figures to Pan-Africanism, these essays are not just celebratory, offering valuable criticism in areas where their subjects may have fallen short of their ideals.

Islam in Black America
Islam in Black America

Author: Edward E. Curtis IV

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0791488594

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Many of the most prominent figures in African-American Islam have been dismissed as Muslim heretics and cultists. Focusing on the works of five of these notable figures—Edward W. Blyden, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Wallace D. Muhammad—author Edward E. Curtis IV examines the origin and development of modern African-American Islamic thought. Curtis notes that intellectual tensions in African-American Islam parallel those of Islam throughout its history—most notably, whether Islam is a religion for a particular group of people or whether it is a religion for all people. In the African-American context, such tensions reflect the struggle for black liberation and the continuing reconstruction of black identity. Ultimately, Curtis argues, the interplay of particular and universal interpretations of the faith can allow African-American Islam a vision that embraces both a specific group of people and all people.

You Are God's Precious Jewel
You Are God's Precious Jewel

Author: Antoinette McAllister-Blyden

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1490857575

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You hold in your hand a book that will significantly impact the lives of those precious jewels in your life. You Are Gods Precious Jewel will instill confidence and mold a positive self-image in young children the world over. This book will lay the foundation upon which they can build a Christ-centered life while pursuing His purpose for their lives. You Are Gods Precious Jewel is based on Biblical concepts and principles. It is intended to shape the mind and hearts of young children with the knowledge and truth that they are precious in the eyes of God and that He loves them dearlya love, demonstrated by Him sending His only son, Jesus Christ, to die so that they may have eternal life. They will learn of His infinite wisdom and knowledge. They will discover that there is nothing about themtheir lives and their future that God does not already know. Even when they are sad, there is a truth that will forever ring in their hearts; that God holds them in the palm of His hands, just like we hold precious jewels. Godspreciousjewels.com