Dispatches from the ebony tower : intellectuals confront the African American experience /

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 ric...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marable, Manning, 1950-2011
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
African Americans > Study and teaching (Higher)
Black people > Study and teaching (Higher)
HISTORY > United States > General.
Ethnic relations > Study and teaching (Higher)
Race relations > Study and teaching (Higher)
United States > Race relations > Study and teaching (Higher)
United States > Ethnic relations > Study and teaching (Higher)
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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