African-American Ideas
Summary
The five major ideological expressions of social thought by which African-Americans have sought to reconstruct their racial/ethnic identity, to contemplate the structures, ideologies, and functions of racial oppression, and to envision a future free from that oppression constitute an extraordinarily complex body of evolving political theory. All are shaped by dynamic interaction with their sociohistorical experiences and the dominant and emerging ideologies and discourses in U.S. society and the world, especially pan-African ideas and the black intellectual tradition.
See also Afrocentricity; Assimilation; Black Consciousness; Civil Disobedience; Class; Conservatism; Critical Race Theory; Diasporas: African Diaspora; Discrimination; Diversity; Equality: Racial Equality; Feminism: Africa and African Diaspora; Liberalism; Negritude; Pan-Africanism; Philosophies: Feminist, Twentieth-Century; Political Protest, U.S.; Segregation; Slavery; Womanism.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
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