Tag Archives: African American History
Sojourner and Frederick Part 1
Nell Irvin Painter discusses her new book, Sojourner Truth — a Life, a Symbol. John Sekora discusses his new book, Frederick Douglass. [unpublished?] 853 – Sojourner and Frederick Part 1
Posted in Episodes, Painter, Nell Irvin, Sekora, John
Tagged African American History, Art, Biography
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Afro-American History, Part 3 of 3: (1) Commentary on William Wells Brown; (2) Haiti
John Sekora outlines the life and work of the first black American man of letters, William Wells Brown, the nineteenth-century novelist, historian, physician, and journalist. Sekora’s comments begin and conclude this episode of Soundings and continue the overview he began in the program … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Sekora, John, Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
Tagged African American History, Haiti -- History, William Wells Brown
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Afro-American History, Part 2 of 3: (1) Ethiopia; (2) Commentary on William Wells Brown
By nearly all accounts–political, social, and moral–Ethiopia in the mid-1980s was one of the crisis points in contemporary global relations. According to Harold Marcus, the answers to many Ethiopian issues, including politics and subsistence, are as varied as Ethiopia’s cultural, linguistic, … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Marcus, Steven, Sekora, John
Tagged African American History, Ethics, Ethiopia, Politics, William Wells Brown
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Afro-American History, Part 1 of 3: European Colonialism, Ethiopia
David Levering Lewis discusses his book, The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa (1987), positing that historical studies of British and French colonialism frequently lack an African perspective. Hollis Lynch joins this conversation. … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Harris, Joseph E., Lewis, David Levering, Lynch, Hollis R.
Tagged Africa -- Colonial history, African American History, Ethiopia, French
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Racial Freedom in the Americas
In recognition of Black History Month, February 1985, Armstead Robinson and David Gaspar discuss the idea of racial emancipation in North America and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Where does emancipation find its philosophical origins in the … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gaspar, David B., Robinson, Armstead L.
Tagged African American History, Atlantic World, Caribbean history, Emancipation
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(1) Edmund Burke and Modern Conservatism, Part 5 of 5; (2) Looking Back in Wonder
Joseph Hamburger, Paul Kress, Lewis Lipsitz, and Harvey Mansfield discuss the extent to which Edmund Burke’s philosophical and political notions of conservatism affect modern politics, conservatism, and liberalism in the 1980s. The speakers focus on the “moral majority” style of … Continue reading
Posted in Ballard, Allen B., Episodes, Hamburger, Joseph, Kress, Paul F., Lipsitz, Lewis, Mansfield, Harvey C.
Tagged African American History, Edmund Burke, History -- U.S. -- Philadelphia PA, Political Conservatism, Politics
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Afro-American History
Benjamin Quarles talks about the challenges in 1980 of locating primary resources in his area of scholarship–antislavery movements and the roles of African Americans in the American Revolution and the Civil War. Quarles also comments on the accounts, which were … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Mullikin, Kent, Quarles, Benjamin
Tagged African American History, Civil War, Fiction
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