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Dr. Samuel T. Livingston is Associate Professor and Director of the African American Studies Program at Morehouse College. His current research extends his concern for Africana resistance movements and their organic origins. He teaches a range of courses including, Africana Ethics and Social Justice: Black Lives Matter. In the Fall 2017 semester this Social Justice Course will be themed: “The Case for Reparations.” He is the author of several articles including his most recent, “An Unbroken Bond: The Place of Africa in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Liberation Thought and Praxis.” He is also engaged in the design and research of his home institution’s Global Africana Ethical Text Digital Mapping project, which traces African social justice thinking from its Ancient African Roots to the Black Lives Matter Movement.
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Research into the writings of twentieth-century Pan-Africanist leader, W.E.B. Du Bois yields a ne... more Research into the writings of twentieth-century Pan-Africanist leader, W.E.B. Du Bois yields a new claim on his Pan-African praxis. Among other texts an interesting letter from Du Bois to the German Consulate, Moritz Schanz raises the possibility of Black leaders obtaining lands to be settled in German West Africa by a small elite group of African Americans. The article examines Du Bois’s thinking as he conceptualized a repatriation effort by applying Afrocentric location theory and historical methods. The present research extends scholarship that uses an African-centered standard to analyze and assess Du Bois’s thought and praxis. Finally, the article discusses Du Bois’s colonization request in the context of Afrocentric interpretations of Black leadership, particularly during the Nadir.
Black nationalism during the American antebellum period has been described as emerging out of a w... more Black nationalism during the American antebellum period has been described as emerging out of a worldview characterized by at least four core tenets –a consciousness of shared racial exploitation, acceptance of the integrity of an African-based identity, a collective sense of responsibility for the condition of all Africans, and a self-help dynamic placing the onus of responsibility for progress on members of the African American nation. These four concerns frame the outlook of the overlooked figure of Moses Dickson, the militant abolitionist, educator, and pastor who became a witness to Black oppression during the American antebellum period. According to his own narrative in the Manual of the International Order of Twelve of Knights and Daughters of Tabor, beginning in 1846, Dickson organized and led the Knights of Liberty –a militia of free and escaped Blacks, purportedly, composed of between 47,240 and 150,000 men, who stood poised to converge on Atlanta at the end of 1856 or early in 1857. These claims and the biographical narrative from which they emerge raise several historical questions pertinent to Nineteenth century African American nationalist thought which, are addressed in the present article.
Research into the writings of twentieth-century Pan-Africanist leader, W.E.B. Du Bois yields a ne... more Research into the writings of twentieth-century Pan-Africanist leader, W.E.B. Du Bois yields a new claim on his Pan-African praxis. Among other texts an interesting letter from Du Bois to the German Consulate, Moritz Schanz raises the possibility of Black leaders obtaining lands to be settled in German West Africa by a small elite group of African Americans. The article examines Du Bois’s thinking as he conceptualized a repatriation effort by applying Afrocentric location theory and historical methods. The present research extends scholarship that uses an African-centered standard to analyze and assess Du Bois’s thought and praxis. Finally, the article discusses Du Bois’s colonization request in the context of Afrocentric interpretations of Black leadership, particularly during the Nadir.
Black nationalism during the American antebellum period has been described as emerging out of a w... more Black nationalism during the American antebellum period has been described as emerging out of a worldview characterized by at least four core tenets –a consciousness of shared racial exploitation, acceptance of the integrity of an African-based identity, a collective sense of responsibility for the condition of all Africans, and a self-help dynamic placing the onus of responsibility for progress on members of the African American nation. These four concerns frame the outlook of the overlooked figure of Moses Dickson, the militant abolitionist, educator, and pastor who became a witness to Black oppression during the American antebellum period. According to his own narrative in the Manual of the International Order of Twelve of Knights and Daughters of Tabor, beginning in 1846, Dickson organized and led the Knights of Liberty –a militia of free and escaped Blacks, purportedly, composed of between 47,240 and 150,000 men, who stood poised to converge on Atlanta at the end of 1856 or early in 1857. These claims and the biographical narrative from which they emerge raise several historical questions pertinent to Nineteenth century African American nationalist thought which, are addressed in the present article.