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A Full Course of African-American History from Stanford: Clayborne Carson

March 20, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer 11 Comments

Here's that Stanford African-American Freedom Struggle course I referred to several times during the episode by Clayborne Carson. iTunes U link.

It's really an excellent course, with maybe 2 and a half lectures on DuBois covering his (long) life, starting with this one:

Watch the introductory DuBois lecture on youtube.

Carson's lecture on MLK is great; you can see him respond to the plagiarism issue, talk about King's theology, and more. For more King, don't miss the later ones by Vincent Harding and Clarence Jones, who worked directly with King. Other lectures fill the historical gaps between DuBois and MLK, and this course is one of the few (Carson says) that goes up to modern times, with episodes on Tupac and Obama (as he was running in the primary for the 2008 election).

-Mark Linsenmayer

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Filed Under: Things to Watch Tagged With: Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King, philosophy blog, W.E.B. DuBois

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  1. dmf says

    March 21, 2012 at 9:37 am

    ML, is there any discussion of MLK’s working thru the idea(l)s of Personalism?

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    • Mark Linsenmayer says

      March 22, 2012 at 9:52 am

      I don’t recall that term being raised.

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      • dmf says

        March 22, 2012 at 11:33 am

        thanks, that’s too bad as MLK was certainly in the mix of that Boston school of thought.
        http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/pilgrimage_to_nonviolence

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        • Law Ware Twitter: @law_ware says

          March 22, 2012 at 11:39 am

          Oh yeah, dmf–King was deeply influenced by personalism. That served as a foundation for how he theologically argued for non-violence.

          It is too bad that many remember his nonviolent approach, but few have taken the time to really study his arguments for said approach. He does some his best ‘conceptual engineering’ when discussing the theory behind the practice of nonviolence.

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          • Mark Linsenmayer says

            March 22, 2012 at 12:57 pm

            I’m forgetting what of my recent MLK knowledge comes from which source at this point; I’ll post a couple more sources w/in the next few days.

          • dmf says

            March 22, 2012 at 1:34 pm

            Law, that’s been my sense of him and I think that many miss how deeply his thought is part of the stream of American philosophy and its commitments to demos not just as a means but as a comprehensive way of life, maybe now what we , after Mead and all, think of as cosmopolitanism.

          • Joan says

            March 22, 2012 at 5:56 pm

            i’ve listened to lecture one, and some of 2, and am enjoying it.
            may i ask your opinion on haile selassie, and the rastafari movement?

          • Law Ware Twitter: @law_ware says

            March 22, 2012 at 10:43 pm

            I think Selassie was brilliant, but deeply, deeply suspicious of their claim that he is the reincartation of Jesus. However, there are many good people who adhere to that position.

          • dmf says

            March 23, 2012 at 8:54 am

            Selassie brilliantly emptied the coffers of his country, when Bob Marley saw up close and personal how Selassie treated his people he reformed his religion with the quickness..

  2. Joshua says

    March 22, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    #11 was my favorite

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  3. Erich Hicks says

    April 12, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Keep history alive by telling that history:

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    Rescue at Pine Ridge is the story of the rescue of the famed 7th Cavalry by the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers. The 7th Cavalry was entrapped again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn’t for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry. This story is about, brutality, compassion, reprisal, bravery, heroism, redemption and gallantry.

    You’ll enjoy the novel that embodies the Native Americans, Outlaws and African-American/Black soldiers, from the south to the north, in the days of the Native American Wars with the approaching United States of America.

    The novel was taken from my mini-series movie with the same title, “RaPR” to keep the story alive. The movie so far has the interest of, Mr. Bill Duke, Hill Harper, Glynn Turman, James Whitmore Jr., Reginald T. Dorsey and a host of other major actors in which we are in talks with, in starring in this epic American story.

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    Peace.

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