In previous lectures, Abdul Alkalimat talked about the box of segregation and discrimination. Now Alkalimat talks about three dynamics which enabled black americans to attempt to get out of the box. Alkalimat discusses migration, political culture, and agency as three dimensions of change used to escape discrimination and segregation.
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Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement: In The Box: Part 2 (University of Illinois)
In the first lecture, Abdul Alkalimat looked at Civil Rights organizations which mobilized people from every part of black society. Women, lawyers, social workers, militants and priests all took part. Now Alkalimat looks at the activities of activists, and the backlash they faced. The 1960s was a war against racist terror, during which non-violent protestors faced murder, bombing, shooting and lynching. What was this mobilization? Who led it? How was unity maintained? What was the response? Abdul Alkalimat answers these and other questions by talking about the critical years of the 1960s in the Civil Rights movement.
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Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement: In The Box: Part 1 (University of Illinois)
There are many types of boxes- some, like prison, are made of concrete. Others are built around illusions and preconceptions. American history has been a dialectic between exclusion of blacks from American society, and their attempts to get in. The civil rights movement was and is part of that struggle to be included in society, a struggle which continues to today. In this lecture, Abdul Alkalimat talks about the organization of six civil rights organizations in terms of time, space and force.
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Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement: The Box: Part 2 (University of Illinois)
Abdul Alkalimat continues his lecture “The Box.” Critical reading is an important method of understanding the meaning of important essays and thinkers. W.E.B. DuBois was one of the most important thinkers in African American studies. Here, Alkalimat guides listeners through a close reading of W.E.B. DuBois, and talks about DuBois’ analysis, his struggles and his fight to change American society.
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Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement: The Box: Part 1 (University of Illinois)
Henry “Box” Brown was a former slave who escaped slavery by shipping himself in a box from a slave state to a free state. But in some sense, he remained in a box- the fugitive slave act threatened his freedom. In this lecture, “The Box” is used as a metaphor for the conditions placed on black people limiting their freedom, including racism and economic exploitation. Abdul Alkalimat looks some of the conditions that limit African-Americans including government, the economy, and the capitalist society.
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Debate (University of Illinois)
This is the fifth and final lecture in the AFRO 490 lecture series. This lecture focuses on the some of the questions raised by debates in African American history. What is debate? What is a great African American debate? Abdul Alkalimat argues there were three great debates- the Emancipation Debate, the Self-Determination Debate, and the Black Liberation Debate. He talks about what can be learned from these debates, and asks what is the next Great Debate?
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Tradition (University of Illinois)
This is the fourth lecture in the AFRO 490 series. This lecture talks about the role of tradition within ideological frameworks and also in the political culture of everyday life. It covers the origins of African American food, names, speech, hair and stories.
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Methodology (University of Illinois)
This is the second lecture in the AFRO 490 series. Alkalimat talks about methods for production of thought in Black studies. He outlines them as epistemology, sociology, history and comparative. He then talks about the D-7 approach to answering questions. This approach involves defining the problem, gathering data, digitizing information, discovering the problem, designing a response, distributing your findings, and making a difference.
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: History (University of Illinois)
This is the third lecture in the AFRO 490 series. This lecture aims to answer two questions. First, what is history? What has been the history of the African American experience? Second, can people create a theory of Black history, and if so, how? It talks about the Eurocentrist traditional approach, and how Black History has emerged as a theoretical approach to reinterpret and challenge this perspective.
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Ideology (University of Illinois)
Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, and Online & Continuing Education, this course is an introduction to various theories and methodologies rising out of the study of the Black world based on African American intellectual traditions. 45 years after Black Power posed a challenge to thinking by and about the African American experience it is necessary to rethink this legacy of changing consciousness. This is both a look at the theoretical formulations in the academic field of Black Studies, but more importantly it is thinking about how people can understand and be more self determining about consciousness and reorient themselves to the fight for freedom.
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