A Companion to African-American Studies

by Editor: Jane Anna Gordon (Temple University); Editor: Lewis Gordon (Temple University)

ISBN13: 9781405154666

ISBN10: 1405154667

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Pub. Date: 2008-04-01

Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry.

Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Introduction: On Working through a Most Difficult Terrain
Stones That Former Builders Refused
On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story
Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline
Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-American Studies at Brown University, 1969-1986
Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View
From the Birth to a Mature Afro-American Studies at Harvard, 1969-2002
Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action
A Debate on Activism in Black Studies
Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African American Studies
On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project
The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace
Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man
Such Fertile FieldsA The Blues Are Brewing for a Humanistic Humanism
Homage to Mistress Wheatley
Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child: Placing the Humanities at the Core of Black Studies
Jazz Consciousness
B What Does It Mean to Be a Problem?
Afro-American Studies and the Rise of African-American Philosophy
Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience
Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics
Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social-Scientific Method by the Study of Race
African-American Queer Studies
Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law
C Having Hitherto Interpreted the World, the Point is to Change It
Unthinkable History?: Some Reflections on the Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery
Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African-American Studies to Modernity
An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African-American History
Reflections on African-American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom
Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age
D Not by Bread Alone
From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts
Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion
Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity
Orienting Afro-American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity in Literature on Black Jews in America
Creolization and the Geography of Reason
Playing with the Dark: The Deployment of Blackness and Brownness in the Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations
Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries
Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies
Works Cited
Index
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