A Renegade History of the United States, reviewed by Riggenbach and Woods

A Renegade History of the United States - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily

Riggenbach offers another interesting read - all I would say is if the exclusive pursuit of pleasure resulted in the birth of jazz, "America's classical music" (US Congress), complete with full time professional musicians, supported no doubt partially by middle-class patrons stepping down the (segregated) social ladder for access to alcohol during prohibition years, the praxeology of this event would be inseparable from the "authentic culture" Af-Ams brought with them from the continent, more so than libertine pleasure seeking which has rarely (if ever) produced any abiding fine art - both "pleasure" and "puritan" principles have co-existed in the black community, presenting much the same set of social conflicts as presented by the dichotomy of "repatriation" and "reparation", or that of "nationalism" and "integration", as contradictory threads in the evolution of Af-Am theology and ideology

(one of the views I hold, not yet established academically, is that Pan-Africanism is an american and christian contribution to black thought that predates the rise of the Marcus Garvey movement by at least David Walker's "Appeal")