The African American studies reader

by Nathaniel Norment

Paper Book, 2001

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, ©2001.

ISBN

0890896402 / 9780890896402

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CONTENTS
SECTION I: The discipline: definitions and perspectives
The case for black studies / DeVere E. Pentony
Questions and answers about black studies / Nathan Hare
Black studies: an intellectual crisis / John W. Blassingame
Reflections on structure and content in black studies / Martin Kilson
The field and function of black studies / James B. Stewart
Black studies: an overview / Darlene Clark Hine
Black studies: discipline or field of study? / Philip T.K. Daniel
Classifying black studies programs / Carlos A. Brossard
Black studies: a discussion of evaluation / LeRoi R. Ray, Jr.
What direction black studies? / Donald Henderson
African-American studies and the state of the art / Russell L. Adams

SECTION II: African American women's studies
Black women's studies: threat or challenge? / Charles P. Henry and Frances Smith Foster
Black women's studies: the interface of women's studies and black studies / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
The politics of black women's studies / Gloria T. Hull and Barbara Smith
Womanist issues in black studies: toward integrating Africana womanism into Africana studies / Delores P. Aldridge
The social construction of black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins
But who do you really belong to: black studies or women's studies? / Barbara Christian

SECTION III: Historical perspectives
Early black studies movements / Lawrence Crouchett
Black studies at San Francisco State / John H. Bunzel
The coming of age of black studies / Vivian V. Gordon
The struggle and dream of black studies / Carlene Young
Black studies in historical perspective / Ronald Bailey
The black studies movement: afrocentric-traditionalist-feminist paradigms for the next stage / Darlene Clark Hine
Afro-American studies / Nathan I. Huggins
What happened to black studies? / St. Clair Drake.

SECTION IV: Philosophical perspectives
Black studies and the problematic of paradigm: the philosophical dimension / Maulana Karenga
Optimal theory and the philosophical and academic origins of black studies / Linda James Myers
Intellectual questions and imperatives in the development of Afro-American studies / Russell L. Adams
The intellectual and institutional development of African studies / Robert L. Harris, Jr.
The status of black studies in the second decade: the ideological imperative / Tilden LeMelle
African American studies: the future of the discipline / Molefi Kete Asante
Reaching for higher ground: toward an understanding of black/Africana studies / James B. Stewart

SECTION V: Theoretical foundations
Theory building in black studies / Philip T.K. Daniel
Black studies: overview and theoretical perspectives / Talmadge Anderson
Toward a paradigm of unity in black studies / Abdul Alkalimat
The afrocentric metatheory and disciplinary implications / Molefi Kete Asante
Articulating the distinction between black studies and the study of blacks: the fundamental role of culture and the African-centered worldview / Daudi Ajani ya Azibo
Africology: normative theory / Lucius Outlaw

SECTION VI: Political perspectives
Black studies: a political perspective / Mike Thelwell
The political nature of black studies departments and programs / J. Owens Smith
Toward a new role and function of black studies in white and historically black institutions / Delores P. Aldridge
Politics of the attack on black studies / Robert L. Allen
Black studies and global perspectives: an essay / St. Clair Drake
Black studies: education for liberation / William H. McClendon

SECTION VII: Critical issues and perspectives
Critical issues in black studies: a selective analysis / Alan K. Colón
Critical issues in black studies / Ronald Walters. Black studies: trouble ahead / Eugene D. Genovese
White experts, black experts, and black studies / Pat M. Ryan
The black college as focus for black studies / Nick Aaron Ford
Afrocentricity: problems of method and nomenclature / Erskine Peters
White colleges and the future of black studies / Nick Aaron Ford
Taking stock: African American studies at the edge of the 21st century / Floyd W. Hayes, III

SECTION VIII: Curriculum development
Black studies curriculum development in the 1980s: its patterns and history / Gerald A. McWorter and Ronald Bailey
Black studies: a survey of models and curricula / William D. Smith
Black studies consortia: a proposal / Gloria I. Joseph
Toward the evolution of a unitary discipline: maximizing the interdisciplinary concept in African/Afro-American studies / Karla J. Spurlock
The importance of black studies for science and technology policy / William M. King
Computers and black studies: toward the cognitive revolution / Melvin Hendrix [and others]
The institute of the black world, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, Atlanta, Georgia / Vincent Harding, Jr.
Teaching black studies for social change / James A. Banks
Black studies and Africana studies curriculum model in the United States / William A. Little, Carolyn M. Leonard, and Edward Crosby.
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