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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788011303321

Titolo

Apologie de la raison : hommages à Marcien Towa (1931-2014) = The apology of reason : homages to Marcien Towa / / par Jacob Emmanuel Mabe (éd.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nordhausen : , : Traugott Bautz, , 2015

ISBN

3-86945-503-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

158.1092378

Soggetti

Philosophy, Comparative

Philosophy and civilization

Philosophy, African

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Titelei; Impressum; Table des matières/Contents; Marcien Towa: Présentation biographique - Par Jacob Emmanuel Mabe ; Introduction: Marcien Towa ou l'éternité de la raison - Par Jacob Emmanuel Mabe; Introduction: Marcien Towa, or the Eternity of Reason - By Jacob Emmanuel Mabe; Première partie/Part one - Analyses critiques/Critical analyses; Senghor, La Philosophie Africaine et La Religion DANS L'OEUVRE DE MARCIEN TOWA - Par Ebénézer Njoh Mouelle; Reflections on Marcien Towas unique idea of contemporary African Philosophy - By Josephat Obi Oguejiofor

D'une Aufhebung de la mentalité mythique en Afrique Towa dans la continuité du regard Hégélien - Par Abou SangaréMarcien Towa comme lecteur critique de Hegel - Par Guillaume Nguemba; «Towa critique de la feymania» - Par Joseph Ndzomo-Molé; Deuxième partie/Second part Témoignages et Discours d'adieu/Testemonies and farewell speech; Temoignage Marcien Towa: sur la raison et le libre-arbitre - Par Hubert Mono Ndjana; Reading Marcien Towa - or how to learn from an African philosopher - By the Society for African Philosophy

The Philosopher Marcien Towa from the Point of View of Motivation-Medicine - By Emmanuel EtoungTexte d'hommage des disciples de Marcien Towaà l'occasion de la cérémonie d'Hommages Académiquesrendus à l'Amphi 700 de l'Université de Yaoundé 1, le



vendredi 8 août 2014. - Par Charles Romain Mbele

Sommario/riassunto

This book project is intended to eulogize an outstanding hero of African intellectual history. It is, of course, Marcien Towa (1931-2014), a brilliant philosopher known for his tireless fight, not only for the advancement and advocacy of reason, but also against the civilizing mission of the West in Africa.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960771603321

Autore

García Mario T

Titolo

Blowout! : Sal Castro and the Chicano struggle for educational justice / / Mario T. García & Sal Castro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-908850-3-6

979-88-9313-415-5

1-4696-0330-6

0-8078-7791-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CastroSal

Disciplina

371.829/68073

B

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Education - United States

Hispanic Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Educational equalization - United States

Race discrimination - United States

United States Race relations

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

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Sal Castro Story; 1 Born in East L.A; 2 Veterano; 3 Viva Kennedy; 4 Mr. Castro; 5 The Mexican Schools; 6 Blowout: Part I; 7 Blowout: Part II; 8 The East L.A. 13; 9 Reprisals and Struggles; 10 All My Children; 11 Education Today and Legacies; EPILOGUE: The Camp Hess Kramer Spirit; AFTERWORD: Pedagogy of Chicano Power: Sal Castro, Paulo Freire, and the Mexican



American Youth Leadership Conferences, 1963-1968; APPENDIX: Chicano Movement Historiography; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called ""Mexican Schools."" During these historic walkouts, or ""blowouts,"" the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's,