Handbook of Black studies / editors, Molefi Kete Asante, Maulana Karenga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942-

Karenga, Maulana

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Study and teaching--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

African Americans.

African Americans--Research--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

African Americans--Research.

African Americans--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2006]

Summary:

Key Features: The first handbook that brings together research and scholarship in the field of African-American or Black Studies. All contributors will be pre-eminent scholars in the field. The Editors are two of the most prominent scholars in the field with high name recognition. Excellent 3-Part organization brings the latest conceptual and analytical thinking into focus.

The Handbook of Black Studies is meant to become the principal reference work for the state of the field in African American Studies. It is intended for libraries as well as graduate researchers seeking to ascertain the current state of the research in African American Studies. The Handbook will have three main divisions: Historical and Cultural Foundations, Philosophical and Conceptual Basis, and Critical and Analytical Concepts.

Contents:

I Historical and Cultural Foundations 1

1 The Intellectual Basis of the Black Studies Discourse 3

Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary, or Unidisciplinary? Africana Studies and the Vexing Question of Definition / Ama Mazama 3

Black to the Future: Black Studies and Network Nommo / Norman Harris 16

2 Impact and Significance in the Academy 31

African Communication Patterns and the Black Studies Inheritance / Charles Okigbo 31

Women in the Development of Africana Studies / Delores P. Aldridge 51

3 Theorizing in Black Studies 67

Afrocentricity and Racial Socialization Among African American College Students / P. Masila Mutisya, Louie E. Ross 67

Philosophy and Practice for Black Studies: The Case of Researching White Supremacy / Mark Christian 76

Researching the Lives of the Enslaved: The State of the Scholarship / Katherine Olukemi Bankole 89

Antiracism: Theorizing in the Context of Perils and Desires / George J. Sefa Dei 107

II Philosophical and Practical Bases 117

4 Reflection and Knowledge 119

Graduate Studies Programs in African American Studies / Ama Mazama 119

Africana Critical Theory of Contemporary Society: The Role of Radical Politics, Social Theory, and Africana Philosophy / Reiland Rabaka 130

Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position / Molefi Kete Asante 152

5 Black Studies, Social Transformation, and Education 165

Revisiting Brown, Reaffirming Black: Reflections on Race, Law, and Struggle / Maulana Karenga 165

African American Politics: The Black Studies Perspective / Charles P. Henry 185

Black Studies in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities / Daryl Zizwe Poe 204

African American Studies Programs in North America and the Teaching of Africa: Myth, Reality, and Reconstruction / Emmanuel Ngwainmbi 225

An African Nationalist Ideology in Diaspora and the Development Quagmire: Political Implications / Cecil Blake 243

III Critical and Analytical Measures 259

6 Analytical Methods 261

The Canons of Afrocentric Research / Ruth Reviere 261

Africana Studies and the Problems in Egyptology: The Case of Ancient Egyptian Kinship / Troy Allen 275

The Context of Agency: Liberating African Consciousness From Postcolonial Discourse Theory / Virgilette Nzingha Gaffin 282

Kilombismo: An African Brazilian Orientation to Africology / Elisa Larkin Nascimento 301

Black Studies and the Social Work Paradigm: Implications of a New Analysis / Mekada Graham 304

The Pursuit of Africology: On the Creation and Sustaining of Black Studies / Molefi Kete Asante 317

7 Data Collection and Reporting 329

The Interview Technique as Oral History in Black Studies / Diane D. Turner 329

Decapitated and Lynched Forms: Suggested Ways of Examining Contemporary Texts / Willie Cannon-Brown 333

Film as Historical Method in Black Studies: Documenting the African Experience / Adeniyi Coker 352

IV The Future of the Field 367

8 Sciences, Agency, and the Discipline 369

Social Discourse Without Abandoning African Agency: An Eshuean Response to Intellectual Dilemma / Molefi Kete Asante 369

Social Science and Systematic Inquiry in Africana Studies: Challenges for the 21st Century / James B. Stewart 379

The Field, Function, and Future of Africana Studies: Critical Reflections on Its Mission, Meaning, and Methodology / Maulana Karenga 402

Appendix The Naming of the Discipline: The Unsettled Discourse 421.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0761928405

OCLC:

60455114