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Book by Todd Boyd
The
New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop
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Sharif
Responds to Todd Boyd's
Hip Hop Comments
in
Lee
Hubbard
interviews Todd Boyd
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Todd
Boyd comments in Hubbard Interview
The
Relevance of the Civil Rights Struggle
Boyd:
Things
are just different and the civil rights mind-set is outdated. .
. .
Civil
Rights is very old school. It is valuable as something historic
to learn from, but it is not something that can be applied today.
The
New Ruling Class
Boyd:
I looked at the Fortune Magazine’s list of 40 richest people
under 40 and Master P, Michael Jordan, Will Smith, and P Diddy
were on the list. Most of these African Americans are connected
to hip hop, and this is very significant. You have a number of
people with that much money and power connected to hip hop. This
is a new black ruling class.
Lee
Hubbard is a hip hop writer and cultural critiic --. e-mail address
superle@hotmail.com.
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Sharif
Responds to Todd Boyd's Hip Hop Comments
What a bunch of crap! It is this kind of
thinking that is running young black men into the ground. Up
until the hip hop generation the issue was black progress and
black power. The hip hop generation has no concept of power
outside of their own individual quest for money. If it is old
school to want to contribute to the collective progress of black
people, then count me as first among the old school. We
have only to ask has the black life of the underclass gotten any
better since the birth of hip hop? I think not. What will the
hip hop generation do when this fad is over. Make no mistake any
thing as commercial as hip hop is nothing but a fad!!
When
these hoppers grow up what will their role be in society? Will
they take their fifty-year-old ass out to stand on corners
waiting for a dope hook up? Will they stand on the
sidewalks and beg dimes for forties? Maybe, they will do
drive-by shootings from wheel chairs terrorizing nursing homes?
The fact is the hip hop generation will be even less
independent than the civil rights generation.
The
hip hop generation is an anti-skills generation. As I often hear
them say, "I ain't working for no white man." But
without skills to survive in the future, all those who
don't make millions as rappers will be out in the cold--unless
they want to stand in front of P. Diddy's house and beg for hand
outs.
Please
post this up on the site along with the that bull shit
interview!!!
sharif
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Becoming American Under Fire
Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship
During the Civil War Era
By Christian G. Samito
In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity in the process. . . . For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one aspect to their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political processes from which they had previously been excluded. The experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and protections regardless of race. For Irish Americans, soldiering in the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican government and it forged a bond between their American citizenship and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship through naturalization and also caused the United States to pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad. / For Love of Liberty |
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Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
By
Leonard Harris
and Charles Molesworth
Alain
L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology
The New Negro, declared that “the pulse of the
Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Often called
the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his
finger directly on that pulse, promoting, influencing,
and sparring with such figures as
Langston Hughes,
Zora Neale Hurston,
Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthé, William Grant Still,
Booker T.
Washington,
W. E. B. Du
Bois, Ralph Bunche, and John Dewey. The long-awaited
first biography of this extraordinarily gifted
philosopher and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the
untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century
America’s cultural and intellectual life.
Leonard Harris
and Charles Molesworth trace this story through Locke’s
Philadelphia upbringing, his undergraduate years at
Harvard—where William James helped spark his influential
engagement with pragmatism—and his tenure as the first
African American Rhodes Scholar. The heart of their
narrative illuminates Locke’s heady years in 1920s New
York City and his forty-year career at Howard
University, where he helped spearhead the adult
education movement of the 1930s and wrote on topics
ranging from the philosophy of value to the theory of
democracy. |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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