African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge.
This book presents the diverse, expansive nature of African American Studies and its characteristic interdisciplinarity.
This book is a definitive intervention at a critical time in the history of race relations and in the academic field of race and ethnic studies.
This volume assembles the keywords of this field for the first time, exploring not only the history of those categories but their continued relevance in the contemporary moment.
Promises broken , or kept ; the difficulty of ferreting out loyalties and ties that bind or bruise wend their way throughout the action and the shifting relationships . So the agent's flight , like that of the Solomon in the title ...
107 S.Walker, Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). 108 W.E.B. Du Bois, “Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?
With unflinching honesty, Rooks shows that the only way to create a stable future for African American studies is by confronting its complex past.
In Civil Wars: Observations from the Front Lines of America, 45–55. ... White over Black: American Attitudes towards the Negro, 1550–1812. ... Africa Speaks, American Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times.
Part III contains readings about Jim Crow, the roots of Plessy vs. Ferguson, and the Niagara Movement. In Part IV, students learn about the impact of African American artists on literature, arts, and culture from 1927 - 1940.
African-American Studies is a unique field of scholarly inquiry and critical interpretation whose intellectual foundation and development have significantly influenced other disciplines in the academy. The African-American Studies Reader is...
The work examines both the theory and the method of scholars in African and African-diaspora studies.