Higher Flight : refocusing Black/Africana studies for the 21st century / James B. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, James B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

Summary:

"In Higher Flight, pre-eminent scholar and activist James B. Stewart offers a much-needed critical assessment of the current state of Black/Africana Studies in order to chart a path forward. Each section incorporates various forms of expression, including Stewart's essays, speeches, and poems, and the book as a whole covers a vast range of figures, issues, and phenomena, from W.E.B, Du Bois to James Baldwin, from conscious hip-hop to the Black Lives Matter movement, from Hurricane Katrina to Covid-19, and very much in between"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1: Transdisciplinary Theoretical and Methodological Trajectories

Pursuit of Knowledge?

Prologue

Du Bois's The Negro and Contemporary Black/Africana Studies

Black/Africana Studies, Then and Now : Reconstructing a Century of Intellectual Inquiry and Political Engagement, 1915-

Art, Politics, Cultural Studies, and Post-Structuralist Philosophy in Black/Africana Studies : Deciphering Complex Relationships

Part 2: In Search of Progressive Cultural Production

Streaming to Nowhere

Neutering the Black Power Movement: The Hijacking of Protest Symbolism

"Until Justice Rolls Down Like Water and Righteousness like a Mighty Stream : The Celebration of

Black Life in the Music of Mausiki Scales and the Common Ground Collective

"I Think We Killed Bigfoot"

Conscious Rap Music in the Pacific Northwest : Introducing "The Rhetorician"

No More Water, The Fire This Time! Channeling James Baldwin's Perspectives on History and Identity to Pursue Racial Equity in the 21st Century

Does Anyone Know My Name? Resurrecting the Artistic Activism of Paul Robeson

Part 3: Advancing the Global Liberation Struggle

Social Inactivism (poem)

Reparations Now!!! (poem)

Onward Africana Women Warriors!

The Institutional Decimation of Black Male : A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

Resocializing Gang Bangers : A Comprehensive Strategy to Promote Violence Reduction and Community Reintegration

Globalizing Black Identity : Challenges and Possibilities for Developing Liberatory Coalitions

Still Seeking Forty Acres and a Mule : Tracking the Global Reparations Movement

Showdown at the Crossroads?: Technology Development, Cyberspace, Liberation, and Identity Construction

Searching for Wakanda: Understanding and Mastering Liberatory Technologies

A Higher Flight to Liberation : Don't Let Them Clip Our Wings!.

Notes:

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