African American theological ethics : a reader /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Louisville, Kentucky :
Westminster John Knox Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Library of theological ethics.
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Table of Contents:
- The origin of races and color / Martin R. Delany
- Opposing the slave trade: "An oration on the abolition of the slave trade in the United States" / Peter Williams Jr.
- Opposing slavery as the paramount moral evil: "An address delivered on the celebration of the abolition of slavery in the state of New York" / Nathaniel Paul
- Opposing the hypocrisy of slave-owning Christians: Appendix to his 1845 Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass
- Opposing slavery by escaping: Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad
- Opposing slavery through abolitionism: "Slavery brutalizes man" / Daniel A. Payne
- Opposing slavery by repudiating the American Colonization Society: "Slavery and colonization" / Peter Williams Jr.
- Opposing slavery by force: Appeal, in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America / David Walker
- Opposing slavery by rebelling: "Call to rebellion" / Henry Highland Garnet
- Opposing slavery by emigrating to Africa: "The regeneration of Africa" / Alexander Crummell
- Opposing racial segregation by withdrawing from racist churches: The life experiences and gospel labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen / Richard Allen
- Opposing racial segregation through self-help programs: "The Atlanta Exposition address" / Booker T. Washington
- Opposing racial segregation by condemning lynching: "This awful slaughter" / Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Opposing racial segregation by moral suasion: "To the nations of the world" / W.E.B. DuBois
- Opposing racial segregation by rebuilding Africa: "Declaration of the rights of the Negro peoples of the world" / Marcus Garvey
- Opposing racial segregation by demanding civil rights: "Behold the land" / W.E.B. DuBois
- Opposing racial segregation and discrimination by legal redress: "Remarks on the bicentennial of the Constitution" / Thurgood Marshall
- Opposing racial segregation by direct nonviolent protest: "A realistic look at the question of progress in the area of race relations" / Martin Luther King Jr.
- Opposing racial segregation through congressional legislation: "Speech on civil rights" / Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
- Advancing in politics: "From protest to politics" / Bayard Rustin
- Supporting the Equal Rights Amendment: "I am for the Equal Rights Amendment" / Shirley Chisholm
- Speaking for the common good: "Who then will speak for the common good?" / Barbara Jordan
- Common ground: "Keeping hope alive" / Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.
- An incredible achievement: "Election night victory speech" / Barack Obama
- Dr. King's vision of America: "I have a dream": / Martin Luther King Jr.
- The spirituals: "Understanding spirituals" / Miles Mark Fisher
- The Black church: the genius of the Negro church / Benjamin Elijah Mays, Joseph William Nicholson
- Black power and the Black churches: Black theology and Black power / James H. Cone
- Womanist theology: White women's Christ and Black women's Jesus: feminist Christology and womanist response / Jacquelyn Grant
- A chronological overview: The Negro in the United States: a brief history / Rayford Logan
- Spiritual strivings: The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois
- Hope: "A testament of hope" / Martin Luther King Jr.
- Black America's major threat: Nihilism in Black America / Cornel West
- The problem of theodicy: Is God a white racist? / William R. Jones
- An alternative view of religion: "Perspectives for a study of Afro-American religion in the United States" / Charles H. Long
- A poem on memory and hope: "Lift every voice" / James Weldon Johnson
- The theologies of Black folk in North America: Presidential address to the American Theological Society, March 30, 2012 / Peter J. Paris.