Stewart, a Professor Emeritus at Penn State University, has published fifteen books, including Introduction to African American Studies, Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications, and over eighty articles in Economics and Africana Studies professional journals. Stewart is a Senior Fellow at the New School’s Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, and Director of the Black Economic Research Center for the 21st Century. Evans, Aaron David Gresson III, Claudrena N. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberation.Įxpansive in scope and interdisciplinary in practice, The Black Intellectual Tradition explores the ideas that animated a people’s striving for full participation in American life.Ĭontributors: Derrick P. By including women’s and men’s perspectives from the United States and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2021) presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals, performers and protest activists, institutions and organizations, and educators and religious leaders. About the Bookįrom 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world.
This program is free to the public, but registration is required. The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the many thought perspectives behind the fight for racial justice as developed by various segments of the Black community.
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