A companion to African-American studies / edited by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-

Gordon, Jane Anna, 1976-

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Series:

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 11.

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 668 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 history of race relations and in the academic field of race and ethnic studies. Bringing together a dazzling array of established and emergent voices, the Companion opens with a series of reflections from those who waged pitched battles to establish African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline. Students and scholars of the field will find this to be an exciting and comprehensive overview, and an ideal resource for study and further research.

Contents:

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. 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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-651) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780470996645

0470996641

Publisher Number:

99976463084

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