A companion to African-American studies /
The Companion to African-American Studies is a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Each original essay by an expert scholar in the field covers its topic with authority and clarity. This book is a definitive intervention at a critical time in the histor...
| Other Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006
Malden, MA ; Oxford : 2006 Malden, MA : 2006 |
| Series: | Blackwell companions in cultural studies ;
11 Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 11 Blackwell companions in cultural studies 11 |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Beavers ; On how we mistook the map for the territory, and re-imprisoned ourselves in our unbearable wrongness of being, of Desetre : Black studies toward the human project / S. Wynter ; The new auction block : Blackness and the marketplace / H. Carby ; Black studies, Black professors, and the struggles of perception / N. Painter ; Autobiography of an ex-white man / R. Wolff
- ^
- Creolization and the geography of reason. Playing with the dark : the deployment of Blackness and brownness in the Africana and Latino literary imaginations / C. Milian Arias ; Africana studies : the international context and boundaries / A. Dzidzienyo ; Africana thought and African-diasporic studies / L. Gordon
- Facing the dawn of another day : from such fertile fields ... the blues are brewing ... for a humanistic humanism. Homage to Mistress Wheatley / R. Phillips ; Toni Cade Bambara's Those bones are not my child : placing the humanities at the core of Black studies / J. Joyce ; Jazz consciousness / P. Austerlitz ; "What does it mean to be a problem?" ; Afro-American studies and the rise of African-American philosophy / P. Henry ; Sociology and the African diaspora experience / T. Zuberi ; Suicide in Black and white : theories and statistics / A. Poussaint, A. Alexander ; Some reflections on challenges posed to social-scientific method by the study of race / J. Gordon ; African-American queer studies / D. Fryer ; Black studies, race, and critical race theory : a narrative deconstruction of law / C.^
- Headley ; 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 / S. Fischer ; Historical consciousness in the relation of African-American studies to modernity / S. Wheelock ; An emerging mosaic : rewriting postwar African-American history / P. Joseph ; Reflections on African-American political thought : the many rivers of freedom / B. Bogues ; Politics of knowledge : Black policy professionals in the managerial age / F. Hayes, III ; Not by bread alone ; From the Nile to the Niger : the evolution of African spiritual concepts / C. Finch, III ; Three rival narratives of Black religion / W. Hart ; Babel in the north : Black migration, moral community, and the ethics of racial authenticity / E. Glaude, Jr. ; Orienting Afro-American Judaism : a critique of white normativity in literature on Black Jews in America / W. Isaac
- ^
- Not only stones that former builders refused : reflections on building Black, Afro-American, African-American, and Africana studies. On my first acquaintance with Black studies : a Yale story / H. Baker, Jr. ; Sustaining Africology : on the creation and development of a discipline / M. Asante ; Dreams, nightmares, and realities : Afro-American studies at Brown University, 1969-1986 / R. Jones ; Black studies in the whirlwind : a retrospective view / C. Morgan-Cato ; From the birth to a mature Afro-American studies at Harvard, 1969-2002 / M. Kilson ; Black studies and ethnic studies : the crucible of knowledge and social action / J. Butler ; A debate on activism in Black studies / H. Gates, Jr., M. Marable ; Singing the challenges : the arts and humanities as collaborative sites in African-American studies / H.^