Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement

Williams, Yohuru

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“…As early as the late 1800s, African American youth were always challenging systems of oppression with their critical thinking and forethought and sacrificing their bodies to confront systems of oppression (Williams, 2015). Young activists such as Kate Brown of Virginia and Charlotte Brown of California, respectively, who in the 1880s were the first to legally challenge the railway and streetcar companies for racial discrimination through lawsuits rose to national prominence (McCluskey, 2014) becasue of their actions.…”

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Acknowledging the historical contributions of Black Youth's civic engagement in society

Webster

2021

Sociology Compass

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Historical contributions of Black youth voices and actions are overlooked from many of the narratives of youth civic engagement (YCE) literature. Specifically, the histories and stories of African American youth in the United States and Black Caribbean youth in the Anglophone Caribbean. The shared socio and political obstacles these particular groups have encountered throughout history shaped similar paths for their involvement in civic society to address many of these social and racial injustices. The article's premise centers on the need for the YCE literature to acknowledge the historical civic contributions African American and Black Caribbean youth have made throughout history. Fundamental historical civic movements that were designed, developed, and supported by Black youth set the tone of Black youth's civic engagement throughout history. These were shaped and contextualized by three specific macrosystem influences (political suppression, institutional racism, and cultural oppression). When YCE scholars begin to make greater meaning of the foundations and critical work developed by Black youth civic activists, a more comprehensive field emerges. With the acknowledgment and inclusion of civic contributions created and implemented during historical eras, more profound meaning is gained of civic engagement among communities and people who have generally been disenfranchised. Coming to terms with their civic legacies developed from racial injustices provides a more comprehensive depiction of civic engagement as a field and body of literature.

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Acknowledging the historical contributions of Black Youth's civic engagement in society

Webster

2021

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“…The absence of ecophilosophy and political ecology within Africana studies is largely linked to the sociohistorical and geographical context in which it developed as an academic discipline. As an outgrowth of the Black Freedom Movement (Williams, 2016), Africana studies emerged as a proactive strategy to institutionalize the intellectual demands of the struggle. It sought to redefine the meaning and function of educational institutions for predominantly urban African American communities, while challenging prevailing political and economic arrangements.…”

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Omenala: Toward an African-Centered Ecophilosophy and Political Ecology

Densu

2017

Journal of Black Studies

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This article seeks to contribute to the reconstruction of an Africancentered ecophilosophy and political ecology. Employing Cheikh Anta Diop's theory of African cultural unity, it considers the Ndi Igbo philosophy Omenala, its paradigmatic implications for Africana studies, and its capacity to demonstrate the continuity of indigenous African socioecological praxis cross culturally. In addition, it explores the relevance of Omenala to the development of an authentic social history of African people and as a theory to analyze contemporary problems in the African world. Three key issues are addressed. First, the article accounts for the absence of ecological theory within Africana studies. Second, it explicates the cultural and philosophical basis for an African-centered ecophilosophy and political ecology. Third, it envisions new approaches and areas of inquiry within Africana studies.

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“…These observations were not unique to SNCC; most of the leading black freedom organizations contributed to and led large-scale protest actions against the war. 30 These twin crises also broadened use of the anti-genocide norm among black freedom campaigns. In a November 6, 1965 column in the New York Amsterdam News, Congress of Racial Equality director James Farmer lamented the "slow genocide that invests the lives of black men everywhere in this nation, laws or no laws, President or no President."…”

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The Black Freedom Movement and the Politics of the Anti-Genocide Norm in the United States, 1951 - 1967

Solomon¹

2019

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6 For example, Charles H. Martin observes that "even before the CRC officially disbanded in 1956, the Genocide Petition had faded from public consciousness," till it "experienced a brief though less successful [than the Genocide Convention] renaissance" during the 1960s. Charles H. Martin, "Internationalizing 'The American Dilemma': The Civil Rights Congress and the 1951 Genocide Petition to the United Nations,"

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Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement

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Acknowledging the historical contributions of Black Youth's civic engagement in society

Acknowledging the historical contributions of Black Youth's civic engagement in society

Omenala: Toward an African-Centered Ecophilosophy and Political Ecology

The Black Freedom Movement and the Politics of the Anti-Genocide Norm in the United States, 1951 - 1967

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