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Some Legit Black Scholars???
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Just saw him at black liberation day
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the great-grandson of Elijah Muhammad.
Khalil is director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He has a bachelors from the University of Pennsylvania in economics and a PhD from Rutgers in American history.
Muhammad is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, published by Harvard University Press.[8] The Condemnation of Blackness won the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize,[9] which is awarded annually to the best published book in American studies.[10] The book is notable for its lengthy discussion of the role of the social sciences - and of black and white social scientists - in shaping and sanctifying racial "data," with terrible consequences for African Americans.
As an academic, Muhammad is at the forefront of scholarship on the enduring link between race and crime that has shaped and limited opportunities for African Americans. His research interests include the racial politics of criminal law, policing, juvenile delinquency and punishment, as well as immigration and social reform.[11] Dr. Muhammad is now working on his second book, Disappearing Acts: The End of White Criminality in the Age of Jim Crow,[12] which traces the historical roots of the changing demographics of crime and punishment so evident today. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Nation, New Yorker, Washington Post, The Guardian, and Atlanta Journal Constitution, as well as on Moyers & Company, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and Radio One[disambiguation needed].[13]
Khalil is director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He has a bachelors from the University of Pennsylvania in economics and a PhD from Rutgers in American history.
Muhammad is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, published by Harvard University Press.[8] The Condemnation of Blackness won the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize,[9] which is awarded annually to the best published book in American studies.[10] The book is notable for its lengthy discussion of the role of the social sciences - and of black and white social scientists - in shaping and sanctifying racial "data," with terrible consequences for African Americans.
As an academic, Muhammad is at the forefront of scholarship on the enduring link between race and crime that has shaped and limited opportunities for African Americans. His research interests include the racial politics of criminal law, policing, juvenile delinquency and punishment, as well as immigration and social reform.[11] Dr. Muhammad is now working on his second book, Disappearing Acts: The End of White Criminality in the Age of Jim Crow,[12] which traces the historical roots of the changing demographics of crime and punishment so evident today. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Nation, New Yorker, Washington Post, The Guardian, and Atlanta Journal Constitution, as well as on Moyers & Company, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and Radio One[disambiguation needed].[13]
C'mon @Blackking is that all you got? I was expecting yall to drop more.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
not a "scholar" but easily the best black writer right now
http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/
http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/
The Father of Pan Africanism
Well, maybe others can also post some...
Dr. George G.M. JamesDr. George Granville Monah James (unknown – 1954) was a well-regarded historian and author from Georgetown, Guyana. He’s best known for his 1954 book “Stolen Legacy,” in which he presented evidence that Greek philosophy originated in ancient Egypt. He gained his doctorate degree at Columbia University in New York, became a professor of logic and Greek at Livingstone College in Salisbury, N. C., for two years, and then taught at the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff.
In “Stolen Legacy,” James painstakingly documents the African origins of Graco-Roman philosophical thought. He asserted that “Greek philosophy” was not created by the Greeks at all, instead it was borrowed without acknowledgement from the ancient Egyptians.
James even challenged the foundations of Judaism and Judeo-Christianity and argued that the statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis with her child Horus in her arms is the origin of the Virgin Mary and child.
He mysteriously died, shortly after publishing Stolen Legacy.
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta...orge-gm-james-guyanas-shining-star-a-tribute/
Put some info.
The Father of Pan Africanism
Dr. Marimba Ani
Dr. Marimba Ani is an anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her book “Yurugu,” a comprehensive critique of European thought and culture. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Chicago, and holds masters and doctorate degrees in anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School University.
In her ground-breaking work, “Yurugu: An Afrikan-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior,” Ani uses an African perspective through the myths of the Dogon people and the language of Swahili to examine the impact of European cultural influence on black people and the world. She developed a framework that methodically debunked the belief that Western civilization was the best, most constructive society ever built and instead she pointed out its inherent destructive tendencies.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimba_Ani
Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912), the father of pan-Africanism; was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician primarily in Liberia. Born in the West Indies, he joined the free black immigrants to the region from the United States; he also taught for five years in the British West Africa colony of Sierra Leone in the early 20th century. His writings on pan-Africanism were influential in both colonies, which were started during the slavery years for the resettlement of free blacks from the United States and Great Britain. His writings attracted attention in the sponsoring countries as well. He felt that Zionism was a model for what he called Ethiopianism, and that African Americans could return to Africa and redeem it. Later he supported Islam[citation needed].
Blyden was recognised in his youth for his talents and drive; he was educated and mentored by John Knox, an American Protestant minister in St Thomas, Danish West Indies, who encouraged him to continue his education in the United States. Blyden was refused admission in 1850 to three Northern theological seminaries because of his race. Knox encouraged him to go to Liberia, the colony set up for freedmen by the American Colonization Society; Blyden emigrated that year, in 1850, and made his career and life there. He married into a prominent family and soon started working as a journalist.
Writings[edit]
As a writer, Blyden is regarded widely as the "father of Pan-Africanism". His major work, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race (1887), promoted the idea that practising Islam was more unifying and fulfilling for Africans than Christianity. He argues that the latter was introduced chiefly by European colonizers. He believed it had a demoralising effect, although he continued to be a Christian. He thought Islam was more authentically African, as it had been brought to sub-Saharan areas by people from North Africa.
His book was controversial in Great Britain, both for its subject and because many people at first did not believe that a black African had written it. In later printings, Blyden included his photograph as the frontispiece.[9]
Blyden wrote:
"'Let us do away with the sentiment of Race. Let us do away with out African personality and be lost, if possible, in another Race.' This is as wise or as philosophical as to say, let us do away with gravitation, with heat and cold and sunshine and rain. Of course, the Race in which these persons would be absorbed is the dominant race, before which, in cringing self-surrender and ignoble self-suppression they lie in prostrate admiration."
Due to his religious affiliations, in the late 19th century Blyden publicly supported the creation of a Jewish state in Israel; he praised Theodore Herzl as the creator of "that marvelous movement called Zionism."[10]
This shyt is confusing. ...
West indies to being pan africanist to Islam to anti christian to support of zionism to let's pretend race doesn't exist? ? ?
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is an African-American psychiatrist practicing in Washington, D.C. She is noted for authoring the “Cress Theory of Color Confrontation” and “The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors,” which explore and define the global system of white supremacy.
In “The Isis Papers,” Welsing contradicts the notion that white supremacy was rooted in an idea of genetic superiority. Instead, she presents a psychogenetic theory suggesting whites fear genetic annihilation because their genes are recessive to the majority of the world’s population, which consists of people of color – the most threatening being black. Therefore they established white supremacy to prevent people of color from diluting their genes and subsequently rendering them extinct.
AJaRuleStan
All Star
Thomas Sowell, black economist, master historian, and social theorist. His efficiency with words and logic is a marvel to behold.
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