A Companion to African-American Studies

by Editor: Jane Anna Gordon (Temple University); Editor: Lewis Gordon (Temple University)

• ISBN13: 9781405154666
• ISBN10: 1405154667
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Introduction: On Working through a Most Difficult Terrain

Stones That Former Builders Refused

On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story

Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline

Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-American Studies at Brown University, 1969-1986

Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View

From the Birth to a Mature Afro-American Studies at Harvard, 1969-2002

Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action

A Debate on Activism in Black Studies

Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African American Studies

On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project

The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace

Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception

Autobiography of an Ex-White Man

Such Fertile FieldsA The Blues Are Brewing for a Humanistic Humanism

Homage to Mistress Wheatley

Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child: Placing the Humanities at the Core of Black Studies

Jazz Consciousness

B What Does It Mean to Be a Problem?

Afro-American Studies and the Rise of African-American Philosophy

Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience

Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics

Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social-Scientific Method by the Study of Race

African-American Queer Studies

Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law

C 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

Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African-American Studies to Modernity

An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African-American History

Reflections on African-American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom

Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age

D Not by Bread Alone

From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts

Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion

Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity

Orienting Afro-American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity in Literature on Black Jews in America

Creolization and the Geography of Reason

Playing with the Dark: The Deployment of Blackness and Brownness in the Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations

Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries

Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies

Works Cited

Index

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