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Slave Culture Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America

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ISBN-10: 0199931674

ISBN-13: 9780199931675

Edition: 2nd 2014

Authors: Sterling Stuckey

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Twenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey's ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion that has had profound implications for theories of black liberation and race relations in America. Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an…    
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Book details

List price: $35.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.29" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Foreword
Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Introduction: Slavery and the Circle of Culture
David Walker: In Defense of African Rights and Liberty
Henry Highland Garnet: Nationalism, Class Analysis, and Revolution
Identity and Ideology: The Names Controversy
W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Cultural Reality and the Meaning of Freedom
On Being African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice
Notes
Bibliography
Index