Paul C Mocombe: 7 books
The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit...
by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist...
Jesus and the Streets
The Loci of Causality for the Intra-Racial Gender Academic Achievement Gap in Black Urban America and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial...
Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies
The Case of Black Academic Underachievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy...
Identity and Ideology in Haiti
The Children of Sans Souci, Dessalines/Toussaint, and Pétion
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the...
Between Two Worlds
Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and...
by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of...