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black nationalismU.S. political and social movement aimed at developing economic power and community and ethnic pride among African Americans. It was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey in the early 20th century, when many U.S. black nationalists hoped for the eventual creation of a separate black nation in Africa. In the 1960s and '70s, Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X preached the ideal of black nationalism as an alternative to assimilation into the predominantly white culture of the U.S. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| You can almost hear the groan as Shelby, a Harvard philosopher, does the heavy lifting to critique Black nationalist philosophies through the lens of pragmatic philosophy. I am reminded of Phillip Brian Harper's trenchant discussion of the distorted masculine ontology that undergirded much 1960's Black Nationalist rhetoric, evinced through diatribes by Amiri Baraka, Cleaver, and others, invective based on a facile binary of hyper-masculine black manhood and a milquetoast, white "homosexual" defilement of manhood. Radical black nationalist Louis Farrakhan said they were deliberately destroyed so that rich whites could steal property from poor blacks. |
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