The End of Black Studies: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns

ISBN-13: 9780367876746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 134 str.

Clovis E. Semmes

Opis

This book examines the foundational parameters and historical mission of the field of African-American Studies, which emerged from a broad-based Black intellectual tradition defined by the metaproblem of cultural hegemony, broadening our thinking about the field and identifying Afrocentric or Black-centered approaches to knowledge production tha

Spis treści

Introduction: The End of Black Studies: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns

1. The End of Black Studies and the Closing of Oppositional Discourse

2. Minority Status and the Problem of Legitimacy

3. Religion and the Challenge of Afrocentric Thought

4. Existential Sociology or the Sociology of Group Survival , Elevation, and Liberation

5. Foundations in Africana Studies: Revisiting Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976.

6. The Normative Assault on Black Studies

7. Entrepreneur of Health: Dick Gregory, Black Consciousness, and the Human Potential Movement

8. E. Franklin Frazier’s Theory of the Black Family: Vindication and Sociological Insight

Conclusions: Toward the End of Black Studies

O autorze

Clovis E. Semmes is Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies at Eastern Michigan University, USA and Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.