African American history reconsidered / Pero Gaglo Dagbovie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo.

Series:

New Black studies series

The new Black studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Historiography.

African Americans.

African American historians--History.

African American historians.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]

Summary:

This groundbreaking volume establishes new perspectives on black history--its scholarship and pedagogy, scholars and interpreters, and evolution as a profession. Pero Gaglo Dagbovie discusses a wide range of issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history, the twentieth century black historical enterprise, and the teaching of African American history for the twenty-first century. Additional topics include the hip-hop generation's relationship to and interpretations of African American history; past, present, and future approaches to the subject; and the social construct of knowledge in African American historiography. An examination of definitions of black history from W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and a survey of early black women historians lend further dimension and authenticity to the volume. A bold contribution to the growing fields of African American historiography and the philosophy of black history, African American History Reconsidered offers numerous analytical frameworks for understanding and delving into a variety of dimensions of the African American historical experience.

Contents:

Conceptualizing black history, 1903-2006

Approaches to teaching and learning African American history

Carter G. Woodson's appeal, black history, and black radical thought

Ample proof of this may be found : early black women historians

Shadow vs. substance : deconstructing Booker T. Washington

Genocide and African American history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252035210

0252035216

9780252077012

0252077016

OCLC:

456551364