African Philosophy Final Exam

David Walker's Appeal Article 2

consequence of ignorance

David Walker's Appeal Article 1

consequence of slavery

David Walker's Appeal Article 4

consequence of the colonizing plan

David Walker's Appeal Article 3

consequence of the preachers of Jesus Christ

Community Activities of Black Panther

Feed our children, Liberation schools

Marcus Garvey

-Africa for Africans and the future as I see it -founded UNIA -agrees with Blyden for Africa to win respect for black people, insists there is little chance for black dignity or self determination in the Caribbean of the US. -Black colonization in Africa will not repeat the oppression of its indigenous ppl. grounded form notion that status in the community depends on loyalty/ community service -new aristocracy service will create a framework where african people may once again recognize achievements of pre-colonial African History and Culture

Molefi Asante

-Afrocentrism -education is a social phenomenon whose ultimate power is to socialize the learner -sending a child to school is to prepare that child to become part of a social group

Walter Rodney

-Black power understanding -argues modern history can only be understood if the concept of race is used as the cornerstone of analysis -race is mark of power- power is kept pure milky white -challenge of facing nonwhite people is to recognize that power can only come from racial identification -black power can only be recognized by using justified violence to attempt to right wrongs that have not been successful using nonviolent ways -black power he defines is a doctrine about black people, for black ppl, preached by black ppl

Angela Davis

-Empowerment of Afro-American women -shunned from general federation of women -National Association of Colored Women's Club -primary function to fight racism -open to all members -goes beyond right to vote also higher wages, better working conditions -agenda: unemployment, offer organized resistance to racist violence

Bell Hooks

-Feminism -movement to end sexism

Martin Luther King JR

-Understanding Black power -BPM was a cry of disappointment & reaction to the failure of white power -feeling of hopelessness, angered by the lack of humanity for africans -BPM call for blacks to gain power -supports BPM to develop political awareness and election of blacks to key positions

CLR James

-West Indian Middle Class supports Jean-Price Mars call for reclaiming racial identity in the Caribbean -Argues the middle classes believe they benefit significantly from imperialist economic structure

Universal Negro Improvement Association

-advocated Africa for africans whereby people of african descent should concentrate on building up for themselves a great nation in Africa

Malcolm X

-black revolution: included worldwide nonwhites need to turn from white nationalism to policy of black nationalism -africans elect democrats to office but receive little in return -believes in bloodless revolution & worldwide unity -black nationalism: encouraged africans to gain complete control over politics in their community and eliminate evils in community & lift society

Edward Blyden

-call for those of african descent to return and christianize the continent. -gives religious dimensions to the relationship between self and community. -wanted to create a country where blacks throughout Africa can take pride in the glory of their race To accomplish this: 1. Take self-pride in themselves and Africa 2. Called for African power-where the great centers of African collected strength may be collected 3. African descendants have enough talent, wealth and enterprise for form a respectable nationality on the continent of Africa

Aime Cesaire

-colonization and civilization -poet & statesman -argues Christian civilization brought about by colonization is a lie- neither civil nor a source of significant cultural gift -makes case for moral preference of traditional African society and culture -colonization= "thingification" -one of the most visible proponents of negritude

Cornel West

-learning to talk race -race was a visible catalyst leading to LA riots but not the cause -to prevent: people need to unite as a race as an issue, need to focus on a common public square so races come together to improve square, generate leadership to prevent race as an issue

Merle Hodge

-male/female dynamics -indictment on the continuing brutality and violence towards women in Caribbean society -analyzes domestic violence & other forms of abuse -calls for a revaluation of black womanhood and radical transformation of relations between man and women so that it is not shadowed by the white man's whip

Jean-Price Mars

-presented a new concept of Haitian philosophy and identity -calls on his countrymen and women and people of african descent to take traditions more seriously because they constitute the communities resistance to the continuing pressures of euro ideology and institutions

Franz Fanon

-racism and culture -Argues racism is singularly important consequence of colonial rule -dispel the notion that racism is just a "psychological flaw" and is crucial to seeing the ways in which racism contributes to the inferiorization of the colonized -maintains rediscovery and reclaiming of traditional culture represents a pivotal movement of decolonization

Lucius Outlaw

-relationship between race/ethnicity/philosophy -we seek comfort in what seems to be the wisdom of knowledge and experience -politic of difference: grouping ppl based on differences and then using differences to get noticed -challenge to philosophy: attempt to provide the definitive characterization of what it is to be human-enlightemenment led to lost individuality and gender race -Philosophy: architect and custodian of man. code of being and reason--all humans share these attributes -reason and universalism: artistolian strategy--defining human diversity as function of different natures

World War II Created:

1. US vs USSR friction 2. Expansionist- anti- expansionist

(Black Panther Speaks) What do they want

10 point platform

Eldridge Cleaver

Black man's stake in Vietnam

Bobby Seale

Explains BPP politics

Black panther women speaks

Kathleen Cleaver, Connie Matthews

Founders of the BPP

Newton and Seale

David Walker's Appeal Biography

Over the course of more than 70 pages, he used references within the Bible and the Declaration of Independence to passionately argue against slavery and discrimination.

Huey Newton

Speaks on self-defense

David Hilliard

Speaks on the ideology of BPP

Monroe Doctrine

US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in the North or South America would be viewed as acts of regression

Imperialism

a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force