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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Negritude, the Talmudic tradition and the intellectual performance of Black and Jews |
Author: | Mazrui, Ali A. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 19-36 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa United States |
Subject: | black consciousness |
Abstract: | On the one hand, America has witnessed the Black Studies movement as an effort to intellectualize blackness. On the other hand, the Nation of Islam has emerged as an effort to secularize blackness. What is missing is a viable movement which combines both intellectual and religious strengths. If the Talmudic tradition is a fusion of religion, ethnicity and analytical power, there is as yet no black equivalent. There is as yet no pooling of resources between the Black Studies movement as an intellectual effort and the Nation of Islam as a religious endeavor in Black America. Only a combination of the strengths of the two movements could produce a black equivalent - a tradition which takes pride in the history of the Jews, seeks to understand and analyze the heritage of codified morality, studies the implications of a covenant with sacred origins, finds solace and strength in the collective martyrdom of its members over the centuries, and constantly re-examines the historic role of its people in human affairs generally. A black Talmudic tradition is needed Fusion of the Black Muslim movement with the Black Studies movement would lead to the fulfillment of a black prophecy. Notes. |