TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilder,Craig Steven
TI  - In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City 
SN  - 9780814793688
AV  - F128.9.N4 W55 2001 
U1  - 305.38/8960730747 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African American men
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Societies, etc
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Relations with Africans
KW  - Black nationalism
KW  - History
KW  - Voluntarism
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African-American
KW  - Africans
KW  - City
KW  - Examines
KW  - York
KW  - centuries
KW  - could
KW  - culture
KW  - enslaved
KW  - flourish
KW  - foundation
KW  - institutional
KW  - over
KW  - political
KW  - provided
KW  - religious
KW  - show
KW  - social
KW  - that
KW  - three
KW  - upon
KW  - which
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuriesFrom the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities. In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis in collectivism-a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege the group over the individual-it explores the institutions that arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action and mass resistance. Craig Steven Wilder's research is particularly exciting in its assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift from previous work which has viewed African-American male associations as derivative and imitative of white male counterparts, In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for investigating antebellum black institutions
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