Rescuing the Literary in Black Studies

Temple, Christel N.

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“…A new generation of professors and scholars trained in the field of Africana Studies has and will continue to assume responsibility for the discipline. They are making their mark on the academy and the larger community (Bankole, 2006;Conyers, 1997;Christian, 2006;Rabaka, 2006;Temple, 2006). These 21st-century Africana Studies scholars will continue to investigate and reconstruct the past, interrogate new theoretical claims, and help to conceptualize a vision of the future where knowledge from the discipline is utilized to enhance the quality of life and empower the African world community.…”

Section: Africana Studies Professionalsmentioning

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Defining Ourselves

Reid‐Merritt

2009

Journal of Black Studies

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What's in a name? For the discipline that has become familiar to so many of us as Black Studies, much can be made of this question. While the study of Black people from multiple approaches and perspectives reflective of African worldviews and orientations is at the very core of the discipline, properly naming the field with a single, unifying designation has remained an elusive goal. In the past 40 years, the multidisciplinary nature of the field has contributed to the ongoing development of new programs and academic units with specialized foci and creative titles to match. This article examines the historical emergence and expansion of the field of Black Studies and the challenges that remain in appropriately naming the discipline and correctly identifying those who portend to be its practitioners.

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Section: Africana Studies Professionalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining Ourselves

Reid‐Merritt

2009

Journal of Black Studies

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Building intellectual bridges: from African studies and African American studies to Africana studies in the United States

Železa

2011

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The study of Africa and its peoples in the United States has a complex history. It has involved the study of both an external and internal other, of social realities in Africa and the condition of people of African descent in the United States. This paper traces and examines the complex intellectual, institutional, and ideological histories and intersections of African studies and African American studies. It argues that the two fields were founded by African American scholar activists as part of a Pan-African project before their divergence in the historically white universities after World War II in the maelstrom of decolonization in Africa and civil rights struggles in the United States. However, from the late 1980s and 1990s, the two elds began to converge, a process captured in the development of what has been called Africana studies. The factors behind this are attributed to both demographic shifts in American society and the academy including increased African migrations in general and of African academics in particular fleeing structural adjustment programs that devastated African universities, as well as the emergence of new scholarly paradigms especially the field of diaspora studies. The paper concludes with an examination of the likely impact of the Obama era on Africana studies. Key words: African studies, African American studies, African diaspora studies, Africana studies

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Rescuing the Literary in Black Studies

Cited by 2 publications

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Defining Ourselves

Defining Ourselves

Building intellectual bridges: from African studies and African American studies to Africana studies in the United States

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