{"product_id":"9781782045717","title":"Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination","description":"\u003ci\u003eEdward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden's powerful black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans to \"uplift\" Africa; yet he was a defender of Africa's culture and customs. He was the most sophisticated critic of Eurocentrism; yet he was an avid Anglophile. He was a Protestant who admiredIslam's \"civilizing\" role in Africa. Blyden was the first black intellectual to advocate for the symbiosis of Africa's \"triple heritage\": indigenous, Islamic, and Western. His voluminous writings laidthe groundwork for some of the most important ideas of African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century, including Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Chiekh Anta Diop, Leopold Sedar Senghor,Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Though Blyden is often overlooked in the history of modern black thought, in this book, Teshale Tibebu brings him out of oblivion and engages the reader in anextended, systematic evaluation of his written works. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Teshale Tibebu is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Modern Ethiopia, 1896-1974\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHegel and Anti-Semitism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHegel and the Third World: The Making of Eurocentrism in World History\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Group Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158314238192,"sku":"9781782045717","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782045717_p0.jpg?v=1763720957","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782045717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}