1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480398203321

Autore

Austin Algernon

Titolo

Achieving Blackness : Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century / / Algernon Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : New York University Press, , 2006

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2006

ISBN

0-8147-6390-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/07300904

Soggetti

Islam

Nationalismus

Rassische Identität

Afrozentrismus

Schwarze

Nationalbewusstsein

Muslim

Ethnische Beziehung

Black nationalism

Black Muslims

Afrocentrism

African Americans - Race identity

African Americans - Race identity - History - 20th century

Black Muslims - History - 20th century

Afrocentrism - United States - History - 20th century

Black nationalism - United States - History - 20th century

History

Electronic books.

USA

Schwarze

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Making races -- Asiatic identity in the Nation of Islam -- Achieving blackness during the Black power era -- The racial structures of Black power -- The racial ideology of Afrocentrism -- Conservative Black nationalism in the Afrocentric era -- Change in Black nationalism in the 20th century -- Making races, making ethnicities.

Sommario/riassunto

"Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the "Afrocentric era" of the 1980s through 1990s Austin shows how theories of race have shaped ideas about the meaning of "Blackness" within different time periods of the twentieth-century. Achieving Blackness provides both a fascinating history of Blackness and a theoretically challenging understanding of race and ethnicity. Austin traces how Blackness was defined by cultural ideas, social practices and shared identities as well as shaped in response to the social and historical conditions at different moments in American history. Analyzing black public opinion on black nationalism and its relationship with class, Austin challenges the commonly held assumption that black nationalism is a lower class phenomenon. In a refreshing and final move, he makes a compelling argument for rethinking contemporary theories of race away from the current fascination with physical difference, which he contends sweeps race back to its misconceived biological underpinnings. Achieving Blackness is a wonderful contribution to the sociology of race and African American Studies"--Publisher description.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459167303321

Titolo

Human identity at the intersection of science, technology, and religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nancey Murphy and Christopher C. Knight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2010

ISBN

1-317-12003-5

1-282-77408-5

9786612774089

1-4094-1051-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Ashgate science and religion series

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyNancey C

KnightChristopher C. <1952->

Disciplina

202/.2

Soggetti

Human beings

Religion and science

Theological anthropology - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Limits of Religion, the Limits of Science; 1 Homo Religiosus: A Theological Proposal for a Scientific and Pluralistic Age; 2 Religious Symbolism: Engaging the Limits of Human Identification; 3 Fundamentalism in Science, Theology, and the Academy; Part II The Emergence of the Distinctively Human; 4 Reductionism and EmergenceA Critical Perspective; 5 Nonreductive Human UniquenessImmaterial, Biological, or Psychosocial?; 6 Human and Artificial IntelligenceA Theological Response; 7 The Emergence of Morality

Part III The Future of Human Identity8 What Does It Mean to Be Human?Genetics and Human Identity; 9 Distributed Identity:Human Beings as Walking, Thinking Ecologies in the Microbial World; 10 Without a Horse:On Being Human in an Age of Biotechnology; 11 From Human to PosthumanTheology and Technology; 12 Can We Enhance the Imago Dei?; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Ideas of human nature in the West have always been shaped by the interplay of philosophy, theology, science, and technology. The fast pace of developments in the latter two spheres (neuroscience, genetics, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering) call for fresh reflections on what it means, now, to be human, and for theological and ethical judgments on how we might shape our own destiny in the future. The leading scholars in this book offer fresh contributions to the lively quest for an account of ourselves that does justice to current developments in theology, science, technology, and