A Companion To Africanamerican Studies Lewis R Gordon Jane Anna Gordon Eds by Lewis R. Gordon, Jane Anna Gordon (eds.) 9780470996645, 9780631235163, 0470996641, 0631235167 instant download after payment.

A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies.

Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies

Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field

Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline

Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry.

Content:
Chapter 1 On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story (pages 3–19): Houston A. Baker
Chapter 2 Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline (pages 20–32): Molefi Kete Asante
Chapter 3 Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro?American Studies at Brown University, 1969–1986 (pages 33–50): Rhett Jones
Chapter 4 Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View (pages 51–58): Charlotte Morgan?Cato
Chapter 5 From the Birth to a Mature Afro?American Studies at Harvard, 1969–2002 (pages 59–75): Martin Kilson
Chapter 6 Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action (pages 76–95): Johnnella E. Butler
Chapter 7 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies (pages 96–101): Henry Louis Gates and Manning Marable
Chapter 8 Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African?American Studies (pages 102–106): Herman Beavers
Chapter 9 On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project (pages 107–118): Sylvia Wynter
Chapter 10 The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace (pages 119–135): Hazel V. Carby
Chapter 11 Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception (pages 136–141): Nell Irvin Painter
Chapter 12 Autobiography of an Ex?White Man (pages 142–167): Robert Paul Wolff
Chapter 13 Homage to Mistress Wheatley (pages 171–191): Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Chapter 14 Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child as a Model for Black Studies (pages 192–208): Joyce Ann Joyce
Chapter 15 Jazz Consciousness (pages 209–222): Paul Austerlitz
Chapter 16 Afro?American Studies and the Rise of African?American Philosophy (pages 223–245): Paget Henry
Chapter 17 Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience (pages 246–264): Tukufu Zuberi
Chapter 18 Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics (pages 265–278): Alvin Poussaint and Amy Alexander
Chapter 19 Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social Scientific Method by the Study of Race (pages 279–304): Jane Anna Gordon
Chapter 20 African?American Queer Studies (pages 305–329): David Ross Fryer
Chapter 21 Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law (pages 330–359): Clevis Headley
Chapter 22 Unthinkable History? The Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery (pages 360–376): Sibylle Fischer
Chapter 23 Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African?American Studies to Modernity (pages 377–399): Stefan M. Wheelock
Chapter 24 An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African?American History (pages 400–416): Peniel E. Joseph
Chapter 25 Reflections on African?American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom (pages 417–434): B. Anthony Bogues
Chapter 26 Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age (pages 435–452): Floyd W. Hayes
Chapter 27 From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts (pages 453–475): Charles Finch
Chapter 28 Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion (pages 476–493): William D. Hart
Chapter 29 Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity (pages 494–511): Eddie S. Glaude
Chapter 30 Locating Afro?American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity (pages 512–542): Walter Isaac
Chapter 31 Playing with the Dark: Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations (pages 543–567): Claudia M. Milian Arias
Chapter 32 Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries (pages 568–589): Anani Dzidzienyo
Chapter 33 Africana Thought and African?Diasporic Studies (pages 590–598): Lewis R. Gordon