African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9781433161292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 684 str.

Nathaniel Norment Jr.

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is an ambitious and successful project. Wonderfully balanced and nicely nuanced, the text examines a variety of conventional academic disciplines through the lenses of the Black experience, as well as Black scholars who study the black world. Nathaniel Norment, Jr. has brought together various elements of African American Studies as an intellectual enterprise that seeks a comprehensive exploration of that field of study grounded in an African-center perspective. In a single text, he contributes to our understanding of the limits of traditional Western conceptions of knowledge, as well as the unswerving commitment of black scholars and African American Studies to advance counterarguments, theories, and methodologies related to the ongoing struggle for Black freedom and liberation."-Floyd W. Hayes, III, retired Senior Lecturer, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Spis treści

List of Tables - List of Figures- Preface - A Note to the Reader - Acknowledgments - Introduction to African American Studies - African American History - African American Literature - African American Literature - African American Sociology - African American Psychology - African American Religion - African American Philosophy - African American Political Science - African American Economics - African American Music - African American Dance - African American Art - African American Film - African American Education - African American Science and Technology - African American Sports - Index.

O autorze

Nathaniel Norment, Jr. is the Director of the Writing Lab and Professor in the Department of English at Morehouse College. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at The City College of New York and the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He is a former Chair and Graduate Director of African American Studies at Temple University where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in African American Studies and African American literature and culture. His publications include The African American Studies Reader (2001, 2007); Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features and Perspectives (Vol. I 2003, Vol. II 2005); and The Addison Gayle, Jr. Reader (2009). Norment earned his B.S. at Ball State University, his M.S. at Saint Francis University, and his Ph.D. at Fordham University.