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1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain -- PART ONE Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter 1 Toward an Effective Antiracism -- Chapter 2 The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution -- Chapter 3 Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean -- Chapter 4 Race and Revolution in Cuba: African American Perspectives -- Chapter 5 The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter 6 Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health |
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PART TWO Mapping African American Studies -- Chapter 7 African American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands -- Chapter 8 The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth" -- Chapter 9 Black Studies and the Question of Class -- Chapter 10 Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment -- Chapter 11 Black Studies Revisited -- Chapter 12 Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class -- Chapter 13 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies -- PART THREE Afrocentricity and Its Critics |
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Chapter 14 Afrocentricity, Race, and Reason -- Chapter 15 Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Student Struggles of the Sixties -- Chapter 16 Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity -- Chapter 17 Afrocentrism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality -- Chapter 18 Afrocentricity and the American Dream -- Chapter 19 Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy -- PART FOUR Race and Ethnicity in American Life -- Chapter 20 The Problematics of Ethnic Studies |
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Chapter 21 Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West -- Chapter 22 Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Index |
| Summary |
What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century' In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable - one of the leading scholars of African American history - gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk. Here are numerous voices expressing very different political, cultural, and historical views, from black conservatives, to black separatists, to blacks who advocate radical democratic transformation. Here are topics ranging from race and revolution in Cuba, to the crack epidemic in Harlem, to Afrocentrism and its critics. All of these voices, however, are engaged in some aspect of what Marable sees as the essential triad of the black intellectual tradition: describing the reality of black life and experiences, critiquing racism and stereotypes, or proposing positive steps for the empowerment of black people. Highlights from Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: -Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Manning Marable debate the role of activism in black studies.-John Hope Franklin reflects on his role as chair of the President's race initiative.-Cornel West discusses topics that range from the future of the NAACP through the controversies surrounding Louis Farrakhan and black nationalism to the very question of what "race" means.-Amiri Baraka lays out strategies for a radical new curriculum in our schools and universities.-Marable's introduction provides a thorough overview of the history and current state of black studies in America |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Black people -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Black people -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Ethnic relations -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Race relations -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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United States -- Race relations -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.
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| ISBN |
0231507941 |
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9780231507943 |
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9780231114776 |
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023111477X |
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