Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms
Molefi Kete Asante · Joseph A. Baldwin · Johnnella E. Butler · Rudolph A. Cain · Amuzie Chimezie · John Henrik Clarke · Betty J. Collier · Richard A. Davis
Sep 2021 · Washington State University Press
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The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new academic discipline. Written by emerging and established scholars and published in the Western Journal of Black Studies over a span of three decades beginning in 1977, the 27 essays included in Africana Studies provide an evolutionary trajectory of the discipline, including theoretical, ideological, and methodological perspectives and paradigms. The primary focus is the African American experience with emphasis on how theoretical and methodological approaches have changed over time as the discipline matured. Topics include pre-colonial literacy and scholarship in West Africa, Black Nationalism, intellectual foundations of racism, and the ideology of European dominance. Articles also address African American personality development, gender relationships, self-identity, masculinity, crime, blueprints for economic development, and digitalization of the discipline. This fundamental collection challenges assumptions, misconceptions, and negative stereotypes within the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and liberal arts fields, and portrays the strength, resilience, and diversity of African and African American peoples.
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Delores P. Aldridge is a director of African-American and African studies at Emory University. She has served as president of several national organizations and is widely published.
E. Lincoln James served as a Professor in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He was the managing editor of the Western Journal of Black Studies.
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