Africana studies : philosophical perspectives and theoretical paradigms / edited by Delores P. Aldridge and E. Lincoln James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldridge, Delores P.

James, E. Lincoln.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

Black people--Study and teaching.

Black people.

Africa--Study and teaching.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xxix, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, [2007]

Summary:

The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the United States during the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new academic discipline.

Written by emerging and established scholars and published in The Western Journal of Black Studies over a span of three decades beginning in 1977, the 27 essays included in Africana Studies provide an evolutionary trajectory of the discipline, including theoretical, ideological, and methodological perspectives and paradigms. The primary focus is the African American experience with emphasis on how theoretical and methodological approaches have changed over time as the discipline matured.

Topics include pre-colonial literacy and scholarship in West Africa, Black Nationalism, intellectual foundations of racism, and the ideology of European dominance. Articles also address African American personality development, gender relationships, self-identity, masculinity, crime, blueprints for economic development, and digitalization of the discipline. This fundamental collection challenges assumptions, misconceptions, and negative stereotypes within the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and liberal arts fields, and portrays the strength, resilience, and diversity of African and African American peoples.

Contents:

University of Sankore at Timbuctoo : a neglected achievement in Black intellectual history / John Henrik Clarke

Historical dialectics of Black nationalist movements in America / James E. Turner

Toward the evolution of a unitary discipline : maximizing the interdisciplinary concept in African/Afro-American Studies / Karla J. Spurlock

Ideology for liberation : a response to Amirí Baraka and other "Marxists" / Betty J. Collier and Louis N. Williams

Historical consciousness and politics in Africa / Lansiné Kaba

Intellectual foundations of racism / Chukwuemeka Onwubu

Ideology of European dominance / Dona Richards

Black Studies and sensibility : identity, the foundation for a pedagogy / Johnnella E. Butler

Notes on Africentric theory of Black personality / Joseph A. Baldwin

Toward a theory of popular health practices in the Black community / Clovis E. Semmes

Theories of Black culture / Amuzie Chimezie

Toward an understanding of Black male/female relationships / Delores P. Aldridge

Conceptual and logical issues in theory and research related to Black masculinity / Clyde W. Franklin II

Race and raceness : a theoretical perspective of the Black American experience / Jacqueline E. Wade

Consensus and neo-conservatism in the Black community : a theoretical analysis of Black leadership / Richard A. Davis

Emerging paradigm in Black Studies / Terry Kershaw

Re-examining the Black on Black crime issue : a theoretical essay / Robert L. Perry

Afrocentricity and the critique of drama / Molefi Kete Asante

Africentricity in social science / Gordon D. Morgan

Beyond Afrocentricism : alternatives for African American Studies / Perry A. Hall

Blueprint for African American economic development / Robert E. Weems

Perception of power/control among African Americans : a developmental approach / Rudolph A. Cain

Towards an Africological pedagogical approach to African civilization / Victor Oguejiofor Okafor

Towards a grand theory of Black Studies : an attempt to discern the dynamics and the direction of the discipline / Arthur Lewin

Africana Womanism : the flip side of a coin / Clenora Hudson-Weems

Africana Studies and gender relations in the twenty first century / Delores P. Aldridge

Will the revolution be digitized? Using digitized resources in undergraduate Africana Studies courses / James B. Stewart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780874222944

087422294X

OCLC:

166357741