Afrocentricity and the Academy

Essays on Theory and Practice
Herausgeber: Conyers, James L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Afrocentricity is a philosophical and theoretical perspective that emphasizes the study of Africans as subjects, not as objects, and is opposed to perspectives that attempt to marginalize African thought and experience. Afrocentricity became popular in the l980s as scores of African American and African scholars adopted an Afrocentric orientation to information. The editor of this collection argues that as scholars embark upon the 21st century, they can no longer be myopic in their perceptions and analyses of race. The seventeen essays examine a wide range of variations on the Afrocentric paradigm in the areas of history, literature, political science, philosophy, economics, women's studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies and social policy. The essays, written by professors, librarians, students and others in higher education who have embraced the Afrocentric perspective, are divided into four sections: "Pedagogy and Implementation," "Theoretical Assessment," "Critical Analysis," and "Pan Africanist Thought."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780786415427
• ISBN-10: 0786415428
• Artikelnr.: 21882814

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
Preface     
Part 1: Pedagogy and Implementation
African American Achievement: Using Critical Pedagogy to Critique a Plan
Intending to Address Educational Disparities
Carol Lloyd     
The Black Studies Paradigm: The Making of Scholar Activists
Terry Kershaw     
The Afrocentric Idea in Education
Mole. Kete Asante     
Afrocentricity and the Arrangement of Knowledge
Kathleen E. Bethel     
Part 2: Theoretical Assessment
W.E.B. Du Bois and/as Africana Critical Theory: Pan-Africanism, Critical
Marxism, and Male Feminism
Reiland Rabaka     
A Theoretical Analysis of Persuasive Tactics Used by Frederick Douglass in
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
Jason J. Thompson and Reynaldo Anderson     
The Philosophy of the Black Power Movement Using Ntu as a Theoretical
Construct
Paul Easterling     
African American Intellectual History: Philosophy and Ethos
Malachi Crawford     
Part 3: Critical Analysis
Afrocentricity and African Psychology
Kevin Cokely     
The Black Male Narrative: An Afrocentric Assessment
James L. Conyers, Jr.     
What Is Afrocentric? Applying Afrocentric Analysis to a Non-Fiction Text
Sandy Van Dyk     
Part 4: Pan-Africanist Thought
The Return: Slave Castles and the African Diaspora
Tanya Y. Price     
The Shebanization of Knowledge
Miriam Ma'at-Ka-Re Monges     
Why Write "Black"? Reclaiming African Culture Resource Knowledges in
Diasporic Contexts
George J. Sefa Dei     
"There Was No Better Place to Go"? Quintard Taylor, Afrikancentricity, and
the Historiography of the Afrikan Experience in the American West
Ahati N.N. Toure     
Mulattos, Freejacks, Cape Verdeans, Black Seminoles, and Others:
Afrocentrisim and Mixed-Race Persons
Rhett Jones     
The Interaction Sphere of Nubia and Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the
Meroitic Period
Larry Ross     
About the Contributors     
Index