Contributions in Black Studies: Volume 8, Issue 1
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1986-01-01
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Blacks in Massachusetts and the Shays' Rebellion
Kaplan, Sidney
Cultural Politics and the Nobel Prize
Katrak, Ketu H.
Given Soyinka' s creative output, particularly his unique infusion of African folk traditions and mythology into his English language work, and equally important, his bringing in new life-blood into the language itself, the Nobel Prize was long overdue. In fact, Soyinka has been on the "short list" of candidates for several years. However, given the familiar history of predominantly Western recipients for the Nobel Prize in Literature over the past 85 years, the Nobel Committee has been lethargic in acknowledging a major writer from the African continent. (Some non-Western recipients of the Prize were India's Rabindranath Tagore in 1913, Chile's Pablo Neruda in 1971, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982.)
"A Monstrous Inconsistency": Slavery, Ideology and Politics in the Age of the American Revolution
Levesque, George A.; Baumgarten, Nikola A.
During the Revolutionary Era the natural rights philosophy with its universalist assertion that all men had a natural right to be free seemed to argue strongly for an end to Negro slavery. In his study of the origins and meaning of black debasement in America, Winthrop Jordan argued that white Americans of the Revolutionary generation could hardly escape the realization that they were indulging a monstrous inconsistency when they insisted on liberty for themselves while denying it to a largely black group in their very midst.
The Fifth Pan-African Conference, 1945 and the All African Peoples Congress, 1958
Shepperson, George; Drake, St. Clare