New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of Critical African-American Studies

by Marable,Manning

• ISBN13: 9781594511424
• ISBN10: 159451142X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Against a backdrop of multiculturalism and Afrocentricity in the intellectual traditions of African-American Studies, this book sets new standards and directions for the future. It is the first book to systematically address the many themes that have changed the political and social landscape for African Americans. Among these changes are new transnational processes of globalization, the devastating impact of neoliberal public policies upon urban minority communities, increasing imprisonment and attendant loss of voting rights especially among black males, the surging of Hispanic population, and widening class differences as deindustrialization, crack cocaine, and gentrification entered urban communities. Marable and a cast of influential contributors suggest that a new beginning is needed for African American scholarship. They explain why Black Studies needs to break its conceptual and thematic limitations, exploring "blackness" in new ways and in different geographic sites. They outline the major intersectionalities that should shape a new Black Studies - the complex relationships between race, gender, sexuality, class and youth. They argue that African-American Studies scholarship must help shape and redirect public policies that affect black communities, working with government, foundations and other private institutions on such issues as housing, health care, and criminal justice.

Table of Contents

Introduction,
Manning Marable	ix
Part I Remapping the Black Experience	1	(110)
1. Rethinking Black Studies
Living Black History: Resurrecting the African-American Intellectual Tradition,
Manning Marable	3	(11)
Teaching Race and Racism in the Twenty-First Century: Thematic Considerations,
Howard Winant	14	(9)
2. Reinterpreting the Past: The New Black History
The Nature of African-American History,
Herbert Aptheker	23	(2)
Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith,
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie	25	(14)
Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution,
Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esch	39	(38)
3. Home to Harlem: Yesterday and Today
Losing Ground: Harlem, the War on Drugs, and the Prison Industrial Complex,
Leith Mullings	77	(23)
Toward an Ethnography of a Quotation-Marked-Off Place,
John L. Jackson Jr.	100	(11)
Part II Old Constructs, New Contexts	111	(92)
4. The New Racial Domain
"Good at the Game of Tricknology": Proposition and the Struggle for the Historical Memory of the Civil Rights Movement,	209
George Derek Musgrove	113	(11)
Notes on a National Report,
Nikhil Singh	124	(6)
Cheap Talk, er, Dialogue,
Gary Y Okihiro	130	(7)
5. Black Feminist Studies: The New Politics of Gender
Black Feminism and the Challenge of Black Heterosexual Male Desire,
Michael Awkward	137	(5)
Establishing Black Feminism,
Barbara Smith	142	(4)
Working It Off: Welfare Reform, Workfare, and Work Experience Programs in New York City,
Dana Ain Davis, Ana Aparicio, Audrey Jacobs, Akemi Kochiyama, Leith Hullings, Andrea Queeley, and Beverly Thompson	146	(22)
"It's Not Right but It's Okay": Black Women's R & B and the House That Terry McMillan Built,
Daphne A. Brooks	168	(15)
6. The Hip-Hop Nation: Black Youth Culture Today
Hip-Hop and the Aesthetics of Criminalization,
Andrea Queeley	183	(14)
From Elvis to Eminem: Play That Funky Music, White Boy!
Todd Boyd	197	(6)
Part III Beyond Traditional Boundaries	203	(102)
7. Beyond Black and White: Redefining Racialized Identities
Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry,
Lee D. Baker	205	(7)
The Politics of Studying Whiteness,
Noel Ignatiev	212	(2)
The Political Economy of Whiteness Studies,
Eric Klinenberg	214	(4)
Defending Critical Studies of Whiteness but Not Whiteness Studies,
David Roediger	218	(2)
The Difference between Whiteness and Whites,
John Hartigan, Jr.	220	(4)
Brilliance without Passion: Whiteness Scholarship and the Struggle against Racism,
Tim Wise	224	(3)
Whiteness: A Mixed Bag,
Karen Brodkin	227	(4)
8. Transnational Blackness: Africa and the African Diaspora, Asia, and Globalization
The Continuity of Struggle: An Interview,
Assates Shakur	231	(9)
The New South Africa and the Process of Transformation,
Bill Fletcher Jr.	240	(9)
Globalized Punishment, Localized Resistance: Prisons, Neoliberalism, and Empire,
Julia Sudbury	249	(10)
Let Us Be Moors: Islam, Race, and "Connected Histories,"
Hishaam D. Aidi	259	(20)
9. The Responsibility of the Critical Black Studies Scholar
Eight Lessons from the Black Front: A Primer,
Farah Jasmine Griffin	279	(2)
Aftermath,
Hazel V. Carby	281	(3)
And the Beat Goes On: Challenges Facing Black Intellectuals,
Kathleen Neal Cleaver	284	(12)
A Scholar in Struggle,
Clayborne Carson	296	(9)
About the Contributors	305	(6)
Index	311