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“Another World Is “Another World Is “Another World Is “Another World Is
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United Church of Chapel United Church of Chapel United Church of Chapel United Church of Chapel
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September 19September 19September 19September 19thththth, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015
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.
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Rev. Howard Thurman
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Dr. Carter G. Woodson
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Dr. Dwight Hopkins
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John Locke
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David Hume
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Immanuel Kant
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Lorenzo Dow Turner
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Dr. Carter G. Woodson
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Melville J. Herskovits
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George G.M. James
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William Leo Hansberry
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Cheikh Anta Diop
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Anthony B. PinnAnthony B. PinnAnthony B. PinnAnthony B. Pinn
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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
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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
All rights reserved
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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THEOLOGY (Black Theology/Womanist Theology)
� William Augustus Jones’ Paradigm
THEOLOGY = How I See God
THEOLOGY = How I See God
ANTHROPOLOGY = How I See Humans
THEOLOGY = How I See God
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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Dr. Dwight Hopkins