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Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

Teshale, Tibebu

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Book 56

Biographies GeneralAfrican HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1580464289
ISBN13: 9781580464284
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Dec 15 2012
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

A critical study of Edward Wilmot Blyden, whose voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century.

Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden's powerful black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans to uplift Africa; yet he was a defender of Africa's culture and customs. He was the most sophisticated critic of Eurocentrism; yet he was an avid Anglophile. He was a Protestant who admired Islam's civilizing role in Africa. Blyden was the first black intellectual to advocate for the symbiosis of Africa's triple heritage indigenous, Islamic, and Western. His voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important ideas of African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century, including Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Chiekh Anta Diop, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney.

Though Blyden is often overlooked in the history of modern black thought, in this book, Teshale Tibebu brings him out of oblivion and engages the reader in an extended, systematic evaluation of his written works.

Teshale Tibebu is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of The Making of Modern Ethiopia,1896-1974, Hegel and Anti-Semitism, and Hegel and the Third World: The Making of Eurocentrism in World History.

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