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Amiri Baraka Double Consciousness Audio Lecture and Strivings of the Negro People by WEB Du Bois

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“Double-consciousness is a concept in social philosophy referring, originally, to a source of inward “twoness” putatively experienced by African-Americans because of their racialized oppression and devaluation in a white-dominated society. The concept is associated with William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, who introduced the term into social thought in his groundbreaking The Souls of Black Folk (1903).” From the article below.

 “Amiri Baraka, a BAM founder, wrote: We felt (and I still do feel) that Afro American people were and are still involved in a war. A war for Self Determination, Self Respect and Self Defense. It is a war for equal rights and democracy. But how can we press this struggle to victory if we suffer form a Double consciousness (Bracey et. al 17).” (From The Black Arts Movement’s Attack on W.E.B. Du Bois’ Theory of Double Consciousness by Tony Lindsay)

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SUPPLEMENTAL I: Strivings of the Negro People By W. E. B. Du Bois

Audio version of the above essay: (Feel free to click the audio below and then pop the article out to read along.)

SUPPLEMENTAL II: WEB Du Bois Criticizes Capitalism

W.E.B. DuBois Speaks! Socialism and the American Negro. The venerable W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), historian and activist, gives an address to the Wisconsin Socialist Club in Madison on socialism and the struggle of Black people in America. This speech was given on April 9, 1960 when DuBois was over 90 years of age and just months before his removal to Africa where he died Ghana on August 27, 1963 at the age of 95. In the speech Du Bois asserts that African Americans must learn the truth about socialism that they may “preserve their culture, get rid of poverty, ignorance and disease, and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

To learn more go to RBG Communiversity’s eLibrary| Imamu Amiri Baraka Folder ; W.E.B. Du Bois Folder

Amiri Baraka’s Blues People| Discussion, Lecture, eBook

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Amiri Baraka at the Five Spot in New York in 1963, the year he published “Blues People: Negro Music in White America.”Credit…Ben Martin/Getty Images
Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo| NYT

From the description of the livestream discussion that follows : Writer, director, and actor David Shakes will lead Evolution Community Read, a virtual community conversation on Amiri Baraka’s Blues People: Negro Music in White America…continue below

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SUPPLEMENTAL: Amiri Baraka’s “Blues People” at Fifty, Professor Robert O’Meally speaks at this talk which marks the 50th anniversary of the influential volume’s publication.

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Learn more in RBG Communiversity eLibrary| Imamu Amiri Baraka and The Black Arts Movement Folder

Return To The African Mother Principle of Male and Female Equality_Dr. Oba T’shaka | “A Very Rich RBG Lesson”

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This work by Dr. Oba T’Shaka is an inquiry into some long neglected dimensions of African culture, history and cosmology. The dilemma of African people in the world is that they are lost from their traditional and historical moorings. There is now a need for them to make a serious study of themselves in order for them to understand the world that they live in and the kind of world they must shape for their children.

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