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London buildings : David Walker Architects
\"London Buildings focuses on the particular expertise of the award-winning and internationally respected firm, David Walker Architects, which makes explicit their seemingly simple approach to each project, focusing on its concern for context, use, and detail. Beyond the emphasis on the practice's London-based projects, the book features an appendix documenting their work on a global scale, including previous projects in the United States, and current work in Russia.\" --Provided by publisher.
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The Image of God and Immediate Emancipation: David Walker’s Theological Foundation of Equality and the Rejection of White Supremacy
In the 1820s it was predominantly Black abolitionists who opposed gradualist abolitionism and the concept of colonization, while, in general, White abolitionists opposed slavery, viewing it as seductive or as sin in itself, but did not want full emancipation for Blacks. Therefore, David Walker’s Appeal from 1829 is a central document in that it calls for immediate and full emancipation as well as opposition to racism and White supremacy. This article argues that the shift in political aim of Black radical abolitionists correlates with an innovation in theological foundation. Walker grounds his quest for immediate and full emancipation in an egalitarian concept of imago Dei. It is this theological foundation that became influential in radical abolitionist discourse and was employed by Maria M. Stewart as well as William Lloyd Garrison. As a result of research on Walker’s theological innovation, it comes to the fore that he most likely was influenced by Black Freemasonry, especially Prince Hall.
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Barbaric culture and Black critique : Black antislavery writers, religion, and the slaveholding Atlantic
\"In an interdisciplinary approach to black antislavery literatures at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan Wheelock shows how the political character of freedom and a religious sensibility allowed Black antislavery writers to countermand ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he selects--Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart--were principally concerned with ending racial slavery and the slave trade, but they employed antislavery rhetoric at a time when the institution of slavery was preparing progressive Western politics to enter a new phase of imperial and racial domination. This contradictory circumstance, Wheelock argues, poses a significant challenge for understanding the development of this watershed moment in Western political identity. The author looks at the ways in which, during this period, religious and secular versions of collective political destiny both competed and cooperated to forge a vision for a more perfect and just society. What especially captures his interest is how the writers of the African Atlantic deployed religious sensibilities and the call for emancipation as a way of characterizing the liberal foundations of Atlantic political modernity. Although neither \"modernity\" nor \"progress\" is a term these writers used, Wheelock contends that a concern with modernity and its liberal character is implicit in their critiques and/or portrayals of the advanced political structures that gave rise to racial enslavement in the first place\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Coyote's Swing
Using a traditional Yakama tale as a motif, \"Coyote's Swing\" combines the author's firsthand experiences as a consulting psychologist with rare history and sociocultural critique, revealing how the U.S. mental health system reframes Native American reactions to oppression and marginalization into \"mental disorders\" and \"mental illness,\" and how the Indian Health Service's contemporary practices echo historical injustices.
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Struggle on their minds : the political thought of African American resistance
\"The rise of the American economy, the persistence of social inequality, and the ongoing struggle for adequate political representation cannot be evaluated separately from slavery, the country's original sin. Five activists who have fought to incorporate slavery into American political discourse are the focus of this timely book, in which Alex Zamalin considers past African American resistance to underscore its future democratic necessity. He looks at the language and conceptions put forward by the American abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey P. Newton, and the prison reformer Angela Davis. Each through passionate argument revised the core values of the American political tradition and reformed ideas about power, justice, community, action, and the role of emotion in elective outcomes. Zamalin finds numerous examples in which political theory developed a more open and resilient conception of individual liberty after key moments of African American resistance provoked by these activists' work. Their thought encouraged slaves to revolt against their masters, black radical abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery by any means necessary, black journalists to chastise American institutions for their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in tense times. Struggle on Their Minds is a critical text for our contemporary moment, showing how constructive resistance can strengthen the practice of democracy and help disenfranchised groups achieve political parity.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Struggle on Their Minds
American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.Struggle on Their Mindsshows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial justice.Zamalin looks at the language and concepts put forward by the abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey Newton, and the prison abolitionist Angela Davis. Each helped revise and transform ideas about power, justice, community, action, and the role of emotion in political action. Their thought encouraged abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery, black journalists to chastise American institutions for their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in tense times.Struggle on Their Mindsis a critical text for our contemporary moment, showing how the political thought that comes out of resistance can energize the practice of democratic citizenship and ultimately help address the prevailing problem of racial injustice.
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David Walker and the Political Power of the Appeal
David Walker's famous 1829 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World expresses a puzzle at the very outset. What are we to make of the use of \"Citizens\" in the title given the denial of political rights to African Americans? This essay argues that the pamphlet relies on the cultural and linguistic norms associated with the term appeal in order to call into existence the political standing of black folks. Walker's use of citizen does not need to rely on a recognitive legal relationship precisely because it is the practice of judging that illuminates one's political, indeed, citizenly standing. Properly understood, the Appeal aspires to transform blacks and whites, and when it informs the prophetic dimension of the text, it tilts the entire pamphlet in a democratic direction. This is the political power of the pamphlet; it exemplifies the call-and-response logic of democratic self-governance.
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Reading Pleasures
In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of
resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that
these activities also brought pleasure. Tara A. Bynum tells the
compelling stories of four early American writers who expressed
feeling good despite living while enslaved or only nominally free.
The poet Phillis Wheatley delights in writing letters to a friend.
Ministers John Marrant and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
memorialize their love for God. David Walker's pamphlets ask Black
Americans to claim their victory over slavery. Together, their
writings reflect the joyous, if messy, humanity inside each of
them. This proof of a thriving interior self in pursuit of good
feeling forces us to reckon with the fact that Black lives
do matter.
A daring assertion of Black people's humanity, Reading
Pleasures reveals how four Black writers experienced positive
feelings and analyzes the ways these emotions served creative,
political, and racialized ends.
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“My Colour Will Yet Root Some of You Out of the Very Face of the Earth!!!!!!”: Demystifying David Walker’s Apocalypse
This essay does a close reading of David Walker’s Appeal to outline his prediction around the termination of American slavery and its aftermath, a prediction that scholars have nearly universally labeled “apocalypse.” My contention is that this label has foreclosed a thorough explication of what Walker actually forecast and therefore has resulted in inadequate treatments and mischaracterizations of Appeal . Contrary to most scholars, I argue that Walker’s apocalypse was not conditional; rather, he was certain that it was going to occur, and it was not the parousia or the millennium as popularly conceived by Americans in his time. Instead, Walker’s apocalypse has Black people violently overthrowing slavery and the existing American government and political order. This demystification of Walker’s apocalypse challenges conventional scholarly positions of Walker on the United States and its founding, the nature of white people, the role that Black people play in their emancipation, and the future of America. Perhaps most relevant for literary scholars, I posit that Walker’s Appeal defies the literary category of jeremiad, and it would be better categorized as revolutionary literature.
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David Alan Walker (1928–2012)
David Alan Walker, Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Sheffield, UK and Fellow of the Royal Society, died on February 13, 2012. David had a marvelous 60 year career as a scientist, during which he was a researcher, mentor, valued colleague, and a prolific writer in the field of photosynthesis. His career was marked by creative breakthroughs in isolation and analysis of chloroplast metabolism in vitro and simple but valuable technical advances for measurement of photosynthesis in vivo that remain relevant on a global scale to production of crops and biofuels, as well as plant responses to climate change. We include here personal remembrances by the authors (GEE and UH), and by (in alphabetical order): Zoran Cerovic (France), Bob Furbank (Australia), Geoffrey Hind (USA), John Humby (UK), Agu Laisk (Estonia), Peter Lea (UK), Ross Lilley (Australia), Barry Osmond (Australia), Simon Robinson (Australia) and Charles Stirling (UK).
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