Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies

Herausgeber: Asante, Molefi Kete; Ledbetter, Clyde

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Produktbeschreibung

Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. The book brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology (Africana Studies) for the purpose of sparking further debate, critical interpretations and extensions, and to reform and reformulate the way we approach our critical thought. The contributors' Afrocentric approach offers new interpretations and analysis, and challenges the predominant frameworks in diverse areas such as philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Africana Studies
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781498530705
• ISBN-10: 1498530702
• Artikelnr.: 43955821

Autorenporträt

Molefi Kete Asante is current chair and creator of the first doctoral program in African American studies at Temple University and co-editor of the Journal of Black Studies. Clyde Ledbetter Jr. is instructor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science at Cheyney University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Contemporary Critical Contours: Africology and Africana
Studies, Molefi Kete Asante and Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr. Chapter 1:
Decolonizing the Universities in Africa: An Approach to Transformation,
Molefi Kete Asante Chapter 2: Postmodernist Diversions In African American
Thought , Daryl B. Harris Chapter 3: Afrocentricity: A Critical
Bibliography, Molefi Kete Asante Chapter 4: Boundless James Baldwin:
Assessing the Creative Freedom of a Cultural Critic, Aaron X. Smith Chapter
5: The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing Obstacles to
Integration, Molefi Kete Asante Chapter 6: Writing History and Reading
Texts: An Afrocentric Narrative of Culture, Nilgun Anadolu Okur Chapter 7:
Retrospective Analysis: The Movement Against African Centered Thought,
Michael T. Tillotson Chapter 8: Lewis Gordon's Existential Cartography,
Molefi Kete Asante Chapter 9: Human Rights Studies as a Sub-Field of
Africology, Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr. Chapter 10: Engaging Kwame Nkrumah's
Consciencism: An Afrocentric Close Reading, Molefi Kete Asante Chapter 11:
African and African Diaspora Culture in the World, Molefi Kete Asante
Chapter 12: Interrogating the Legacy of African Contributions, Molefi Kete
Asante Chapter 13: The Universal Periodic Review and Malcolm X's Human
Rights Strategy, Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr.