Abdul Alkalimat is a founder of the field of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar-activist with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught and directed academic programs across the US, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and China. His activism extends from having been chair of the Chicago chapter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, to a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress in 1998.
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Introduction
PART I BLACK STUDIES AS AFROFUTURISM
1. Rethinking Afrofuturism
2. Imagining the Future
3. Back to the Future
4. Struggle for the Future
PART II BLACK STUDIES AS DIASPORA STUDIES
5. History, Ideology, and Culture
6. African Diaspora Studies in Contemporary Academic Practice
7. Diaspora Studies in the African Diaspora
PART III BLACK STUDIES AS KNOWLEDGE NETWORK
8. Science and Technology in Black History
9. Theories of eBlack
10. Toledo Model for eBlack Studies
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
