文森特·哈丁的新美国黑人史观探析

On Vincent Harding's New View of American Black History

作为黑人学者、社会活动家以及马丁·路德·金激进思想的继承者,文森特·哈丁专注于研究黑人历史,主张为其人民写作。在黑人权力和黑人研究运动引发的学术革命浪潮中,哈丁认识到美国社会结构和主流文化的根本问题,遂公开拒绝“自由融入主义”,倡导一种批判性的、自我定义的、政治性的新黑人史思想和价值观革命,以培育美国社会任何重大变革的文化基础。当黑人运动陷入低谷后,哈丁从黑人宗教、黑人斗争中反思黑人经历的价值,认为黑人是劈开老美国神话的楔子,是“罪恶美国”的救赎者和未来新美国的创造者。黑人需要摆脱受害者心态,与世界被压迫人民站在一起,为创生一个“真正人道、多元和民主”的新社会而努力。

As a black scholar-activist and inheritor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical legacy,Harding advocates writing for his people.In the wave of academic revolution sparked by the Black Power and Black Studies movements,Harding recognized fundamental problems within the structure of American society and mainstream culture,and publicly rejected"liberal integrationism"and advocated a critical,self-defining,and political new Black history and value revolution to cultivate the cultural basis for any major change in American society.When the black movement fell into the trough,Harding reflected on the value of black experience from the black religion and the black struggle,and believed that black people were the wedge that split the old American myth,the redeemer of"evil America"and the creator of the future new America.Black people need to get rid of the victim mentality,stand with the oppressed people of the world,and work for the creation of a new society that is"truly humane,pluralistic and democratic".