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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Rev. Howard Thurman


Dr. Carter G. Woodson


Dr. Dwight Hopkins


John Locke


David Hume


Immanuel Kant


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


Lorenzo Dow Turner


Dr. Carter G. Woodson


Melville J. Herskovits


George G.M. James


William Leo Hansberry


Cheikh Anta Diop


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22 Different Disciplines Now use an African Cantered Paradigm(Hilliard – Wright)

1. Biblical Studies - Hebrew – Randy BaileyJerome Ross

New Testament – Clarice Martin, Obery Hendricks

2. Theology – James Cone,

Dwight Hopkins,

John Kinney

3. Womanist Theology – Katie Cannon

Delores Williams,

Jacqueline Grant

4. Church History – Gayraud Wilmore

David Daniels

Ogbu Kalu

Dr. Julia Speller

L.H. Whelchel

5. History of Religions – Al Rabateau

Vincent Harding

Rachel Harding

Charles Long

Jeremiah Wright

6. World History – Cheikh Anta Diop

7. Psychology (A.B.Psy) - Wade Nobles

Asa Hilliard

A.J. Franklin

Thomas Parham

8. African Studies – Cheikh Anta Diop Chancellor WilliamsWilliam Leo HansberryMolefi Asante

9. Sociology – Iva CarruthersLinda ThomasWallace Best

10. Cultural Anthropology – Roots of SoulI Sought My Brother

11. Cultural Studies – Farah Jasmin GriffinMichael Eric Dyson

12. Pharmacology – Evans and Counter

13. Diasporan Studies – Cheikh Anta DiopDwight HopkinsIvan Van Sertima

Africans Sailing Around the Globe1350-1300 BCE



First African Diaspora

(Voluntary Diaspora)

a. Africans settle in the

3 Americas 800 – 750 BCE

b. Tres Zapotes and La Venta

(Olmec culture 1000 BCE)

c. Africans settle as far away as the

South Sea Islands (Hawaii &

Indonesia)

d. “Nesia” = Island (Micronesia / Indonesia / Melanesia) © Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., 2009

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Second African Diaspora

(Involuntary Diaspora)

a. Africans carried across the Sahara Desert

b. Africans carried across the Indian Ocean

(East African Slave Trade - Arabs)

c. Africans carried into the 3 Americas

14. African-Native American Studies - Jack Forbes

15. Philology - William Scarborough

16. African American Pastoral Theology – Dr. Lee Butler

17. Psychology of Religion – Arthur Pressley

Ed & Ann Wimberley

18. Education – Janice Hale

19. Ethnomusicology – Elkin Sithole

Portia Maultsby

20. Dance - Kariamu Welsh Asante

21. Epistemology – Dr. Jacob Carruthers

22. Lingustics – Geneva Smitherman

Lorenzo Dow Turner

Rickford and Rickford



Linguistics – Lorenzo Dow Turner – 1950’sGeneva Smitherman – 1960’s

Vass - The Bantu Speaking Heritage of the United States – 1970’s

Rickford and Rickford – 1980’sDillard (1950’s and ‘60’s)

African Speakers of English/Spanish/Portuguese/French – Created their own language

Five Subsets to every languagePragmaticsSyntaxSemanticsGrammarPhonics

Williams (1972-Ebony + phonics = Ebonics)

Only Black children were being taught that they speak “Bad English.”No American speaks “English.”


Interdisciplinary Study – 1960’s

a. Linguistics-languages from nineteen countries in Africa.

1) No fricatives2) No hard endings3) No tenses

4) The verb “to be”5) No diphthongs6) No cluster of consonants

(st, sk, ldr and th)th becomes d,n,v,f and/or is elided

b. Early Childhood Education1) Language patterns fixed for life

Lyaconia/Apostle Peter 2) Learn by echolalia-hearing at home

c. Socio Linguistics 1) How do you learn a foreign language

Your word order/ their vocabulary

2) How do you learn a foreign language under oppression. Charles DeBose Stanley Alsopp

a. Rapidlyb. Code Language/Code Switchingc. Group Reinforcement


d. Body Languages (Nonverbal)

1) Facial Expressions

2) Contractions

3) Bodily Involvement with Speech

Results

When you put the disciplines together what you end up with is Black English, Black Spanish, Black Portuguese and Black French (Creole)

Smitherman’s Title: Talkin’’’’ and Testifyin’’’’:The Language of Black America

Paul Lawrence Dunbar – African Spirituals –

Zora Neale Hurston – Sterling Brown

You can only understand the beauty, the complexity and the depth of Africans in the Diaspora when you start from an African-centered approach which assumes that difference is not synonymous with deficience.


THEOLOGY (Black Theology/Womanist Theology)

� William Augustus Jones’ Paradigm

THEOLOGY = How I See God


ANTHROPOLOGY = How I See Humans


ANTHROPOLOGY = How I See Humans

SOCIOLOGY = How I Order My Society

How I See God

(Theology)� White

� White Male

� Hierarchically (above me? or Immanu-el/ with me?)

� Patriarchically

� Valuing some above others

� Privileging some above others

� Choosing some to be blessed

� Choosing others to be cursed

� Approving slavery

� Vengeful or Compassionate?

� Transcendent or Immanent?

� Involved with humans or Aloof from humans

� Blessing individuals or Making covenant with community?

� Loving all or Loving some?

How I See Humans(Anthropology)

How do I see others? How do I see myself?

� White superior to all others

� Valorized by color

� Males superior to females

� Valorized by gender (Male/Female/LGBTQ)

� All equal in God’s sight

� Some “more equal” to others

� Subjects to be honored or objects to be used?

� As people or as property?

�As more important (or less) than property

� As “we” or as “us vs. them”?

� Valorized by worth/wealth

� Stereotyped as “deficient” or Embraced as Different

� Valorized by belief (Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Atheist)

How I Order My Society(Sociology)

� Educational System- Slavery - Psychology- Sociology – Kahlil Gibran Muhammad- Linguistically & Liturgically - Ecclesiologically

� Legal System- Slavery - Fugitive Slave Laws- Constitution- Dred Scott Decision- Jim Crow- Plessy vs. Ferguson - Ku Klux Klan – Lynching- Convict Lease System - The New Jim Crow

How I Order My Society

(Sociology)

� Military Complex

- Slavery

- Imperialism (Hawaii to Iraq) (Chaplaincy)

- Palestinians/Gaza/State of Israel

- Hiroshima/Nagasaki

- Preemptive Strikes (Falluja)

- Drones

� Economic System

- Slavery

- Workers Rights


THEOLOGY (Black Theology/Womanist Theology)

� William Augustus Jones’ Paradigm� One’s Theology Determines One’s Anthropology; and one’s Anthropology determines one’s sociology;� Theology = How Do I See God� Anthropology = How Do I See Human Beings� Sociology = How Do I Order My Society?

BLACK THEOLOGY/NEW TESTAMENT

� Jesus’ Birth 1. Matthew 2:1-13

(Dogon – Reading the stars/Charting the heavens)2. Luke 2:1-20

� Mark 5:1-20� Acts 2 (Diasporan Judasim)

� Acts 6 “Hellenic/Hellenized Jews/”Greek-speaking Jews”� Acts 8:26-39 (Septuagint Translation)� Acts 13:1-3� Acts 21:27-38� Mark 15:21� Romans 16:13


EARLY CHRISTIANITY

� Church in Egypt (Alexandria)

� Alexandria = Clement, Origin, Cyril and Athanasius

THE COPTIC CHURCH (NILE VALLEY – SOUTH)

� Ethiopian Church

(Preserved Egyptian Cultures and Rituals)

� Berbers

� Cyprian, Augustine, Monica, Tertullian, Perpetua and Felicity


European Colonization

Africa – Before Colonization

1400-1900’s

Destruction of a people

Destruction of a culture

Destruction of traditions

Chancellor Williams-(Destruction of Black

Civilization)


Africa – After Colonization

Colonies in Africa

after the Berlin Conference

Berlin Conference

(November 1884–February 1885)

After 1895 the only independent

Countries in Africa are Abyssinia

(Ethiopia) and Liberia

Africa Today


USA/Central America/South America

Indians-Reservation

Africans-Slavery

Triangular Trade

(Africa-Caribbean-North America/South America-Europe)

1630’s to 1787 – A. Leon Higginbottom –

In the Matter of Color

Legal Codification of Dehumanization

Constitution – 1787


What Were the People Doing?

1600’s – 1750’s Brush Arbors

Silver Bluff – George Lisle – 1660’s

1776 – Afro British – Turks and Caicos –Bahamas-Liverpool-Trinidad and Tobago

1787 – St. George Methodist Episcopal Church

1791 – St. Thomas African Episcopal Church

1792 – Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

1796 – African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

1790’s – Afro Baptist First African Presbyterian

1791 – 1804 – Haitian Revolution


1800 – Gabriel Prosser

1816 – A.M.E. First General Conference

1821 – Emigration American Colonization Society (Liberia)

1822 – Denmark Vesey

1828/29 – David Walker’s AppealNat Turner Insurrection

1830’s – Black Codes Underground Railroad/Invisible Institution Emigration to Canada

1850’s – Dred Scott

1865 – Civil War

Reconstruction Radical Reconstruction

1865-1968 Missionary Effort (Black Colleges)

1888 – Slavery Abolished in Brazil


1900 – 1 Yaa Asantewaa – Asante British War

1902 – Plessy vs. Ferguson

1919 – Great Migration

1920’s – Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey/UNIAIda B. Wells

Pan-African Movement

1954 – Brown vs. Board of Education

1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 – Ghana’s Independence

1965 - Malcolm X Assassinated


1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated

Black Revolution

Black Theology

Black Gospel Music Hits College Campuses

James Brown “I’m Black and I’m Proud”

Olympics in Mexico

Athletic Olympics – Carlos Moore

Cultural Olympics – The Music of Peru (Criollo)

South Africa – Black Revolution – Steve Biko

1995 – Million Man March

2008 – Barack Hussein Obama Elected President

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