Leseprobe
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David Walker
Sherrow O. Pinder
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Völkerkunde
Beschreibung
David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted his life to fighting slavery and antiblack racism. In this book, Sherrow O. Pinder brings to light Walker's lived experience, activism, and the synchronizing of his Christian principles and reformist radicalism to demonstrate why and how slavery must be eliminated. Walker's call for blacks to regain their natural rights culminated in his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, an enormously influential work that is now considered a founding text of black studies. Today, given the escalation of antiblack racism manifested in the upholding of institutionalized violence by the state and the continued marginality of African-Americans, we cannot afford to forget Walker's push for racial egalitarianism: it is more urgent than ever.
Rezensionen
"An indispensable book about an indispensable figure in black history. So much of Walker's thinking rings true still, and Pinder exquisitely articulates its importance. A must-read, feel, and experience."
"Why does David Walker matter today? Sherrow O. Pinder has done us a great service, as she invites us to let Walker be our avatar should a vibrant Black politics and equality for all be our goal."
Kundenbewertungen
Geschichte der USA, Race & Ethnicity Studies, African/African-American Studies, Cultural Studies, US History, Afrika-/Afroamerika-Forschung, Kulturwissenschaften, Rassen- u. Ethnienforschung, Geschichte, History, Walker, David