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In The Company Of Black Men : The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City / Craig Steven Wilder.

Wilder, Craig Steven, author.
2002
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Title
In The Company Of Black Men : The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City / Craig Steven Wilder.
Author
Wilder, Craig Steven, author.
ISBN
9780814784624
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814784624.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814784624.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.38/8960730747
Summary
Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuriesFrom the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities. In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis in collectivism-a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege the group over the individual-it explores the institutions that arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action and mass resistance. Craig Steven Wilder's research is particularly exciting in its assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift from previous work which has viewed African-American male associations as derivative and imitative of white male counterparts, In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for investigating antebellum black institutions.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
"Some Little Tribute" An Introduction
Part I African Voluntary Associations and the Rise of Black Spiritual Culture
1 A Taunt from the Oppressed: The West African Institutional Legacy in New York City, 1644-1783
2 Raising Mother Zion: The Fusion of African and British Institutions in New York, 1784-1822
3 The Liberating Power of the Cross The NYAS and the African Encounter with the Protestant Ethic, 1774-1796
4 "The Aristocracy of Character" African Societies and the Moral Consequence of Nationalism, 1784-1845
Part II African Voluntary Associations and the Making of the Public Sphere
5 "The Inmates of My Sanctum Sanctorum" African Voluntary Associations and the Public Sphere, 1808-1845
6 In the Company of Black Men Manhood and Obligation in the African Confraternity, 1808-1857
7 "A Single Voice" African Societies, the Press, and the Public Sphere, 1827-1861
8 When Black Men Spoke of Freedom Voluntary Associations and Nationalist Culture, 1809-1865
Part III The Transformation of African American Voluntarism
9 "The Gaudy Carnival" The African Declension in the NYASMR, 1863-1945
10 "Shall It Be a Woman?" The Transformation of Black Men's Voluntarism, 1865-1960
Notes
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