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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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List of Tables
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Printing
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1
. INTRODUCTION
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Afro-American Studies:,Who,
What, Why, for Whom
Intellectual History
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William 'Edward Burghart DuBois .......................
Carter Godwin Woodson ................................
Edward Franklin Frazier
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Langston Hughes
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The Disciplines
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The Movement ................................................
Innovation ......................................................
Experimentation
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Institutionalization
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The
Text
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Biology and Race
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Political Economy and Class
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Society and Nationality
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Ideology and Consciousness ................................ |
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AFRICA
BEFORE AND AFTER THE SLAVE TRADE:
THE AFRO-AMERICAN HERITAGE
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Africa:
The Continent and Its' People
..................... Production
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Politics
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Religion
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Education
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Women and the Family
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Culture
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The European Penetration
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Colonialism and Imperialism in
Africa ......................
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COLONIALISM AND THE SLAVE TRADE
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Why
the Slave Trade
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Aspects of
Capitalist Slavery
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The Demands for Markets
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The Struggle for Land
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The Struggle for Labor
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The Source of Profit
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The
Impact of the Slave Trade
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THE SLAVE EXPERIENCE:
THE MELTING POT OF AFRICAN
PEOPLES
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The
Institution of
Slavery
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Social Organization
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Religion and
Slavery
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Mechanisms Strengthening Slavery
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Mechanisms Weakening
Slavery
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THE
RURAL EXPERIENCE:
THE EMERGENCE OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN NATIONALITY ..... 81
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Tenant
Farming
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Peonage
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Middle-Class Aspects of the Agricultural
Experience
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The Church
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Disfranchisement and social repression
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Organized Resistance
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Decline of Rural Life : Outmigration ............................ |
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THE URBAN EXPERIENCE:
THE
PROLETARIANIZATION OF AFRO- AMERICANS .............. 99
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The
Urbanization of Blacks
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The "New Negro"
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The Proletarianization of Blacks
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Changes in Social and Cultural Life
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Resistance
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BLACK
WORKERS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT .............. 121
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Black
People in the Work Force ...........................
Scabs ............................................................
"Shit-Work" ......................................................
Labor Reserve .................................................
Black
Workers and Organized Resistance .................
Early National Unions: NLU, CNLU, and the Knights ...
Craft Unionization: AF of L
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"One Big Union": The Wobblies
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A National Black Union.- The Brotherhood ................
Radicalism: American Negro Labor Congress and
Unemployed
Councils
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Industrial Unionization: CIO and the Black Community
Reactionary Forces: AFL-CIO Merger .....................
Black Militancy
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Black Revolutionary Union Movement:
DRUM, the League, BWC
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The Contemporary Scene
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THE
BLACK MIDDLE CLASS
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The
Slave Period
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The Rural Period
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The Urban Period
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Business
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The Professions
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Government and the Black Middle Class
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The Future of the Black Middle Class ...................... |
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BLACK CULTURE AND THE ARTS
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Traditional
African Culture
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The Slave Period
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The Rural Period
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The Urban Period
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The Arts Movements
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The
20s: The Harlem Renaissance ..................
The 30a and 40s: The WPA Artists and the Be Bop
Musicians
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The 60s: The Black Arts Movement
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Black Culture and Imperialism
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RELIGION AND THE BLACK CHURCH
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The
African Connection ..................................
The Slave Period
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The Rural Period
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Social Stability
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Economic Cooperation
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Education
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Arena of Politic al Life
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The Urban Period
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Secularization
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Storefront Churches
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Black Religious Cults
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The Contemporary Situation
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BLACK
WOMEN AND THE FAMILY
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The
Slave Period
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Rural Period
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The Urban Period
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EDUCATION
AND THE SCHOOL IN THE BLACK
COMMUNITY
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The
Slave Period
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The Rural Period ..........................................
The
Urban Period
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Elementary and Secondary Education .............
Higher Education ....................................... |
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BLACK
POWER AND THE U.S. POLITICAL SYSTEM ............
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Slavery,
The Struggle for Human Rights ................
Rural Period: The Struggle for Civil Rights ..............
Urban
Period: The Struggle for Equal Rights ........... |
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CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY
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Legal
Action
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The National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People
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The Urban league
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Mass Struggle
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Student Non-violent- Coordinating
Committee ...
Electoral
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NATIONALISM
AND PAN-AFRICANISM
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The
Historical Basis for Black Nationalism ...............
The Historical Basis for Pan-Africanism
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Ideological and Political Character of Nationalism .....
The Slave Period
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The Rural Period
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The
Urban Period
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The Role of Malcolm X
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Politics
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Culture
and Art
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The Black Nation
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Two Lines on Pan-Africanism in Africa
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Two Lines on Pan-Africanism in the United States
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The
Prospects for Pan-Africanism and Nationalism ... |
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16. MARXISM
AND THE BLACK LIBERATION ......................
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International
Marxist Theory
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U.S. Marxist Movements
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Current Tasks.,
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Toward a Scientific Approach to Black Liberation ........ |
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17.
EVERYONE
HAS A ROLE TO PLAY
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Summary
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The Future
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Bibliography
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APPENDICES
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