African American Studies

This book brings together chapters authored by leading African American Studies/Black Studies scholars in the USA and the UK. It focuses on the roots of the discipline, reaching back to early brilliant Black intellectuals, discusses the historical and epistemological development of formal Black Studies, setting these in their socio-political contexts, and presents research methodologies and guidelines that are appropriate and valid for people of African descent. A number of chapters direct attention to the discipline’s longstanding commitment to social responsibility with chapters that focus on arts and activism, service learning and civic engagement, and present tangible examples for students. The book concludes with chapters on diverse research topics inclusive of history and gender, literature, sport, music, representation in comic books, afrofuturism, and the Black Studies Movement in the UK.

ISBN-13: 9781474487740

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date: 03-23-2021

Pages: 328

Product Dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

Jeanette R. Davidson is Professor, in the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies, at the University of Oklahoma. She is a member of the Board of Directors for The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) and is a member of the Executive Committee for the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, home of the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE). Jeanette R. Davidson was honoured in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: Top 25 Outstanding Women in Higher Education, in 2018, and The Knowledge Review: Inspiring Stories of Women Empowerment, in 2018. She was Director of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma for 15 years. Prior to teaching at the University of Oklahoma, she taught at Columbia UniversitySchool of Social Work, NY, NY. Jeanette R. Davidson was born in Scotland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction, Jeanette R. Davidson; I. HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES; 2. Danny Glover: Memories from 1968, Jeanette R. Davidson; 3. Pedagogy and Decolonization: Historical Reflections on Origins of Black Studies in the United States, Ben Keppel; 4. Toward Radical Pan-African Pedagogy and Civic Education, Greg Graham; 5. The "Field and Function" of Africana Studies: Insights from the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, James B. Stewart; II. AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES; 6. African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms, Perry A. Hall; 7. Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline, Molefi Kete Asante; 8. Revisiting White Privilege: Pedagogy in Black Studies, Tim Davidson and Jeanette R. Davidson; 9. Social Science Research in Africana Studies: Ethical Protocols and Guidelines, Serie McDougal III; 10. Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment, Leslie M. Alexander and Curtis J. Austin; III. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, SERVICE LEARNING AND ACTIVISM; 11. Africana Studies and Community Service: Using the STRENGTH Model, Jeanette R. Davidson and Tim Davidson; 12. Africana Studies and Civic Engagement, Kevin L. Brooks; 13. Danny Glover and Manning Marable: Activism Through Art and Scholarship, Jeanette R. Davidson; 14. Contemporary Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Artistic Expression and Activism, Ebony Iman Dallas, Marie Casimir and Jeanette R. Davidson; IV. SELECTED AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP IN THE DISCIPLINE; 15. He Wasn’t Man Enough: Black Male Studies and the Ethnological Targeting of Black Men in Nineteenth-Century Suffragist Thought, Tommy J. Curry; 16. Reading Black Through the Looking Glass: Decoding the Encoding in African Diasporic Literature, Georgene Bess Montgomery; 17. Diversity and Representations of Blackness in Comic Books, Grace D. Gipson; 18. Black Athletes and the Problematic of Integration in Sport, Jamal Ratchford; 19. African American Music: The Ties That Bind, Alphonso Simpson Jr.; 20. Afrofuturism and the Question of Visual Reparations, Tiffany E. Barber; 21. The Black Studies Movement in Britain, Kehinde Andrews; Index. Show More