A Companion to African-american Studies

A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry.

Lewis R. Gordon is the Laura Carnell University Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University and Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. He is the author of several books, including Her Majesty’s Other Children (1997), which won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for Advancing Human Rights, and Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (2000).

Jane Anna Gordon teaches in the Department of Political Science at Temple University, where she is also an Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. She is author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black–Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean Hill–Brownsville, 1967–1971 (2001), and co-editor, with Lewis R. Gordon, of Not Only the Master’s Tools: Theoretical Explorations in African-American Studies (2005).

Notes on Contributors

xi

Preface and Acknowledgments

xvi

Note on the Text

xix

Introduction: On Working Through a Most Difficult Terrain

xx

Lewis R. Gordon

Jane Anna Gordon

Part I Stones That Former Builders Refused

1

(168)

On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story

3

(17)

Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline

20

(13)

Molefi Kete Asante

Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-American Studies at Brown University, 1969--1986

33

(18)

Rhett Jones

Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View

51

(8)

Charlotte Morgan-Cato

From the Birth to a Mature Afro--American Studies at Harvard, 1969--2002

59

(17)

Martin Kilson

Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action

76

(20)

Johnnella E. Butler

A Debate on Activism in Black Studies

96

(6)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Manning Marable

Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African-American Studies

102

(5)

Herman Beavers

On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project

107

(12)

Sylvia Wynter

The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace

119

(17)

Hazel V. Carby

Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception

136

(6)

Nell Irvin Painter

Autobiography of an Ex-White Man

142

(27)

Robert Paul Wolff

Part II Such Fertile Fields

169

(430)

The Blues Are Brewing . . . for a Humanistic Humanism

171

(1)

Homage to Mistress Wheatley

171

(21)

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child as a Model for Black Studies

192

(17)

Joyce Ann Joyce

Jazz Consciousness

209

(14)

Paul Austerlitz

What Does It Mean to Be a Problem?

223

(1)

Afro-American Studies and the Rise of African-American Philosophy

223

(23)

Paget Henry

Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience

246

(19)

Tukufu Zuberi

Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics

265

(14)

Alvin Poussaint

Amy Alexander

Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social Scientific Method by the Study of Race

279

(26)

Jane Anna Gordon

African-American Queer Studies

305

(25)

David Ross Fryer

Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law

330

(30)

Clevis Headley

Having Hitherto Interpreted the World, the Point is to Change It

360

(1)

Unthinkable History? The Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery

360

(17)

Sibylle Fischer

Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African-American Studies to Modernity

377

(23)

Stefan M. Wheelock

An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African-American History

400

(17)

Peniel E. Joseph

Reflections on African-American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom

417

(18)

B. Anthony Bogues

Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age

435

(18)

Floyd W. Hayes, III

Not by Bread Alone

453

(1)

From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts

453

(23)

Charles Finch, III

Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion

476

(18)

William D. Hart

Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity

494

(18)

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Locating Afro-American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity

512

(31)

Walter Isaac

By Way of Concluding: Thinking Creolization, Thinking Diaspora

543

(1)

Playing with the Dark: Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations

543

(25)

Claudia M. Milian Arias

Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries

568

(22)

Anani Dzidzienyo

Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies

590

(9)

Lewis R. Gordon

References

599

(53)

Index

652

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