Dispatches from the ebony tower : intellectuals confront the African American experience / edited by Manning Marable.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Study and teaching (Higher).

African Americans.

Black people--Study and teaching (Higher).

Black people.

United States--Race relations--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations--Study and teaching (Higher).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain

PART ONE Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era

Chapter 1 Toward an Effective Antiracism

Chapter 2 The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution

Chapter 3 Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean

Chapter 4 Race and Revolution in Cuba: African American Perspectives

Chapter 5 The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century

Chapter 6 Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health

PART TWO Mapping African American Studies

Chapter 7 African American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands

Chapter 8 The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth"

Chapter 9 Black Studies and the Question of Class

Chapter 10 Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment

Chapter 11 Black Studies Revisited

Chapter 12 Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class

Chapter 13 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies

PART THREE Afrocentricity and Its Critics

Chapter 14 Afrocentricity, Race, and Reason

Chapter 15 Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Student Struggles of the Sixties

Chapter 16 Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity

Chapter 17 Afrocentrism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter 18 Afrocentricity and the American Dream

Chapter 19 Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy

PART FOUR Race and Ethnicity in American Life

Chapter 20 The Problematics of Ethnic Studies

Chapter 21 Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West.

Chapter 22 Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin

Contributors

About the Editor

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-231-50794-1

OCLC:

243615903