| Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms Contributor(s): Aldridge, Delores P. (Editor), James, E. Lincoln (Editor), Asante, Molefi Kete (Author) |
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ISBN: 087422294X ISBN-13: 9780874222944 Publisher: Washington State University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2008 Annotation: 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 the 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 960.07 |
| LCCN: 2007047719 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.04" W x 9" (1.27 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - African |