The African American Studies Reader
by Norment, Nathaniel, Jr.Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2007-03-01
Publisher(s): Carolina Academic Press
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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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