Handbook of Black Studies

Molefi Kete Asante - Temple University, USA, Associate Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Queensland
Maulana Karenga - California State University, Long Beach, USA

Other Titles in:
Black Studies | Sociology of Race & Ethnicity

February 2006 | 472 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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Contents

The Handbook has three main divisions: historical and cultural foundations; philosophical and conceptual basis; and critical and analytical concepts and brings together all the main research and scholarship in the field of African-American or black studies.

All contributors are pre-eminent scholars in the field.

The Editors are two of the most prominent scholars in the field with high name recognition.

The Excellent 3-Part organization brings the latest conceptual and analytical thinking into focus.

Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga

Preface

PART I: Historical and Cultural Foundations

The Intellectual Basis of the Black Studies Discourse

Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary or Unidisciplinary: Africana Studies and the Vexing Question of Definition

Ama Mazama

Black to the Future: Black Studies and Network Nommo

Norman Harris

Impact and Significance in the Academy

African Communication Patterns and the Black Studies Inheritance

Charles Okigbo

Women in the Development of Africana Studies

Delores P. Aldridge

Theorizing in Black Studies

Afrocentricity and Racial Socialization Among African American College Students

P. Masila Mutisya and Louie E. Ross

Philosophy and Practice for Black Studies: The Case of Researching White Supremacy

Mark Christian

Researching the Lives of the Enslaved: The State of the Scholarship

Katherine Olukemi Bankole

Antiracism: Theorizing in the Context of Perils and Desires

George J. Sefa Dei

PART II. Philosophical and Practical Bases

Reflection and Knowledge

Graduate Studies Programs in African American Studies

Ama Mazama

Africana Critical Theory of Contemporary Society: The Role of Radical Politics, Social Theory, and Africana Philosophy

Reiland Rabaka

Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position

Molefi Kete Asante

Black Studies, Social Transformation and Education

Revisiting Brown, Reaffirming Black: Reflections on Race, Law and Struggle

Maulana Karenga

African American Politics: The Black Studies Perspective

Charles P. Henry

Black Studies in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Daryl Zizwe Poe

African American Studies Programs in North America and the Teaching of Africa: Myth, Reality, and Reconstruction

Emmanuel Ngwainmbi

An African Nationalist Ideology in Diaspora and the Development Quagmire: Political Implications

Cecil Blake

PART III. Critical and Analytical Measures

Analytical Methods

The Canons of Afrocentric Research

Ruth Reviere

Africana Studies and the Problems in Egyptology: The Case of Ancient Egyptian Kinship

Troy Allen

The Context of Agency: Liberating African Consciousness From Postcolonial Discourse Theory

Virgilette Nzingha Gaffin

Kilombismo: An African Brazilian Orientation to Africology

Elisa Larkin Nascimento

Black Studies and the Social Work Paradigm: Implications of a New Analysis

Mekada Graham

The Pursuit of Africology: On the Creation and Sustaining of Black Studies

Molefi Kete Asante

Data Collection and Reporting

The Interview Technique as Oral History in Black Studies

Diane D. Turner

Decapitated and Lynched Forms: Suggested Ways of Examining Contemporary Texts

Willie Cannon-Brown

Film as Historical Method in Black Studies: Documenting the African Experience

Adeniyi Coker

PART IV. The Future of the Field

Sciences, Agency, and the Discipline

Social Discourse Without Abandoning African Agency: An Eshuean Response to Intellectual Dilemma

Molefi Kete Asante

Social Science and Systematic Inquiry in Africana Studies: Challenges for the 21st Century

James B. Stewart

The Field, Function and Future of Africana Studies: Critical Reflections on Its Mission, Meaning and Methodology

Maulana Karenga

Appendix. The Naming of the Discipline: The Unsettled Discourse

Index

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