Overview
The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new academic discipline. Written by emerging and established scholars and published in the Western Journal of Black Studies over a span of three decades beginning in 1977, the 27 essays included in Africana Studies provide an evolutionary trajectory of the discipline, including theoretical, ideological, and methodological perspectives and paradigms. The primary focus is the African American experience with emphasis on how theoretical and methodological approaches have changed over time as the discipline matured. Topics include pre-colonial literacy and scholarship in West Africa, Black Nationalism, intellectual foundations of racism, and the ideology of European dominance. Articles also address African American personality development, gender relationships, self-identity, masculinity, crime, blueprints for economic development, and digitalization of the discipline. This fundamental collection challenges assumptions, misconceptions, and negative stereotypes within the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and liberal arts fields, and portrays the strength, resilience, and diversity of African and African American peoples.
Full Product Details
Author: Delores P. Aldridge ,
E. Lincoln James ,
Molefi Kete Asante ,
Joseph A. Baldwin
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Imprint: Washington State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.576kg
ISBN: 9780874222944
ISBN 10: 087422294
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 21 December 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""[Africana Studies] will become a staple for black studies programs across the country and those interested in studying discipline's history."" --The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education"
[Africana Studies] will become a staple for black studies programs across the country and those interested in studying discipline's history. --The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Author Information
Delores P. Aldridge is a director of African-American and African studies at Emory University. She has served as president of several national organizations and is widely published. E. Lincoln James served as a Professor in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He was the managing editor of the Western Journal of Black Studies.
