Africana Studies

A Disciplinary Quest for Both Theory and Method
Herausgeber: Conyers, James L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Known variously as African studies, black studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, and Africology, the academic study of the African diaspora as a holistic discipline is a relatively new phenomenon. University programs have been created with reference to a disciplinary matrix, retarding the development of appropriate theory and methods throughout Africana studies. Fifteen leaders in the field of Africana studies provide the conceptual framework for establishing the field as a mature discipline. The focus is on four basic areas: administration and organizational structure; disciplinary matrix; Africana womanism; and cultural aesthetics. The work examines both the theory and the method of scholars in African and African-diaspora studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780786423040
• ISBN-10: 0786423048
• Artikelnr.: 22159196

Autorenporträt

The late James L. Conyers, Jr., winner of the Cheikh Anta Diop Ankh Award for Distinguished Research in the Discipline of African American Studies, was the director of the African American Studies Program and university professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
A Note to the Reader     
Preface     
Part 1: Administration and Organizational Structure in Africana Studies
1. Black Studies: An Overview     
2. Notes on Administration of Africana Studies Departments and
Programs     
3. Black Studies: A New Story     
4. Administration of African American Studies at Black Colleges     
5. "Can the Big Dog Run?" Developing African American Studies at the
University of Georgia     
6. Africology: Building an Academic Discipline     
Part 2: Disciplinary Matrix and Analysis
7. Afrocentricity and the Quest for Method     
8. Africana Studies and Epistemology: A Discourse in the Sociology of
Knowledge     
9. Reaching for Higher Ground: Toward an Understanding of Black/Africana
Studies     
10. African American Studies: Locating a Niche in the Public Sphere of
Higher Eucation     
Part 3: Africana Womanism
11. Womanist Issues in Black Studies: Towards Integrating Africana Womanism
into Africana Studies     
12. Black Women, Feminism, and Black Liberation     
13. Feminism or Womanism? A Black Woman Defining Self     
14. On the Myth of Male Supremacy: Adam and Eve and the Imperative of a New
African-centered Epistemology of Gender     
Part 4: Cultural Aesthetics
15. Culture, Language, and Symbols in Africana Studies: An Etymological
Analysis     
16. The Black poet in Mississippi, 1990-1980     
About the Contributors     
Index