The African American Studies Reader

by Norment, Nathaniel, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781594601552
• ISBN10: 1594601550
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Summary

This book is the most comprehensive anthology in the field. The discipline continues to evolve as to the intellectual, political, and social aspects of African American Studies, and how the discipline will advance knowledge about African Americans for the future. This edition contains new authors, updated introductions to each section and the bibliography, expansion of the glossary of biographies, and review questions and critical analyses for each section. Topics include: The Discipline; African American Women's Studies; Historical Perspectives; Philosophical Perspectives; Theoretical Foundations; Political Perspectives; Critical Issues and Perspectives; and Curriculum Development and Program Models.

Author Biography

Nathaniel Norment, Jr. is a professor in the department of African American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

Table of Contents

The case for black studies	p. 9
Questions and answers about black studies	p. 16
Black studies : an intellectual crisis	p. 25
Reflections on structure and content in black studies	p. 34
The field and function of black studies	p. 44
Black studies : an overview	p. 53
Black studies : discipline or field of study?	p. 61
Africology : building an academic discipline	p. 68
Africana studies and epistemology : a discourse in the sociology of knowledge	p. 74
Classifying black studies programs	p. 88
Black studies : a discussion of evaluation	p. 102
What direction black studies?	p. 113
African-American studies and the state of the art	p. 126
African studies and the state of the art	p. 145
Black women's studies : threat or challenge?	p. 172
Black women's studies : the interface of women's studies and black studies	p. 181
The politics of black women's studies	p. 187
Womanist issues in black studies : towards integrating Africana womanism into Africana studies	p. 199
The social construction of black feminist thought	p. 209
But who do you really belong to - black studies or women's studies?	p. 225
New directions in black women studies	p. 229
Early black studies movements	p. 248
Black studies at San Francisco State	p. 255
Black studies : training for leadership	p. 268
The coming of age of black studies	p. 275
The struggle and dream of black studies	p. 284
Africana studies : a decade of change, challenge and conflict	p. 292
Black studies in historical perspective	p. 302
The black studies movement : Afrocentric-traditionalist-feminist paradigms for the next stage	p. 311
Afro-American studies	p. 321
What happened to black studies?	p. 338
Black studies and the problematic of paradigm : the philosophical dimension	p. 356
Optimal theory and the philosophical and academic origins of black studies	p. 369
Intellectual questions and imperatives in the development of Afro-American studies	p. 377
The intellectual and institutional development of African studies	p. 395
The status of black studies in the second decade : the ideological imperative	p. 401
Africology : a discipline of the twenty-first century	p. 411
Reaching for higher ground : toward an understanding of black/Africana studies	p. 420
Towards an intellectual history of Africana studies : genealogy and normative theory	p. 438
Theory building in black studies	p. 461
Black studies : overview and theoretical perspectives	p. 469
Toward a paradigm of unity in black studies	p. 480
The emerging paradigm in black studies	p. 496
The acrocentric metatheory and disciplinary implications	p. 506
Systematic and thematic principles for black studies	p. 519
Articulating the distinction between black studies and the study of blacks : the fundamental role of culture and the African-centered worldview	p. 525
Africology : normative theory	p. 547
Black studies : a political perspective	p. 568
The political nature of black studies departments and programs	p. 575
Toward a new role and function of black studies in white and historically black institutions	p. 587
Politics of the attack on black studies	p. 594
Black studies and global perspectives : an essay	p. 600
Black studies : education for liberation	p. 612
Critical issues in black studies : a selective analysis	p. 624
Critical issues on black studies	p. 632
Preface : straight black studies	p. 642
Black studies : trouble ahead	p. 648
White experts, black experts, and black studies	p. 654
The black college as focus for black studies	p. 664
Afrocentricity : problems of method and nomenclature	p. 675
White colleges and the future of black studies	p. 695
Taking stock : African American studies at the edge of the 21st century	p. 703
African American studies in the 21st century	p. 719
Black studies curriculum development in the 1980s : its patterns and history	p. 733
Black studies : a survey of models and curricula	p. 750
Black studies consortia : a proposal	p. 760
Toward the evolution of a unitary discipline : maximizing the interdisciplinary concept in African/Afro-American studies	p. 767
The importance of black studies for science and technology policy	p. 773
Computers and black studies : toward the cognitive revolution	p. 780
The institute of the black world, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, Atlanta, Georgia	p. 788
Teaching black studies for social change	p. 792
Black studies and Africana studies curriculum model in the United States	p. 811
Needed research and related projects in African American studies	p. 832
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