Early Black Thought Leaders and the Reframing of American Intellectual History

IF 0.8 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Richard Newman
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Abstract:This essay examines the broad impact of African American thought leadership on early American intellectual history. Though marginalized in many mainstream histories of American intellectual life–which often focus on the emergence of Black philosophers and Black professional historians later in the 19th century -- early national Black thinkers helped shape public understanding of critical ideas in American society and politics, including the meaning of citizenship and civil rights, emancipation and equality, and racial justice. African Americans also influenced public discourses on other key topics in American intellectual life, including the nature of human dignity and spiritual redemption in the Second Great Awakening, the meaning of Romanticism and Transcendentalism in American reform culture, and the authority of science and technology in antebellum society. Using the concept of thought leadership as a framing device to understand the power and impact of early Black ideas, I follow recent trends in the field of African American intellectual history that focus on that way that African American men and women became public authorities on key ideas and issues in American culture between the American Revolution and Civil War. Though they did not often occupy positions of educational, institutional, or legal power (the main provinces of intellectual leadership), Black thought leaders had a significant impact on early American intellectual history.
早期黑人思想领袖与美国思想史的重构
摘要:这篇文章探讨了非裔美国人的思想领导力对美国早期思想史的广泛影响。虽然在许多关于美国知识分子生活的主流历史中被边缘化--这些历史通常侧重于 19 世纪晚期黑人哲学家和黑人专业历史学家的出现--但早期的全国性黑人思想家帮助塑造了公众对美国社会和政治中关键思想的理解,包括公民权和民权的意义、解放和平等以及种族正义。非裔美国人还影响了公众对美国知识生活中其他关键主题的讨论,包括第二次大觉醒中人类尊严和精神救赎的本质、浪漫主义和超验主义在美国改革文化中的意义以及前贝鲁姆社会中科学和技术的权威。我将思想领袖的概念作为理解早期黑人思想的力量和影响的框架工具,紧跟非裔美国人思想史领域的最新趋势,关注非裔美国人在美国革命和内战之间成为美国文化中关键思想和问题的公共权威的方式。虽然黑人思想领袖并不经常占据教育、机构或法律权力职位(思想领导的主要领域),但他们对美国早期思想史产生了重大影响。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the Early Republic is a quarterly journal committed to publishing the best scholarship on the history and culture of the United States in the years of the early republic (1776–1861). JER is published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. SHEAR membership includes an annual subscription to the journal.
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