Dispatches From The Ebony Tower

Author : Manning Marable
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0231507941

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Dispatches from the Ebony Tower by Manning Marable Pdf

What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable—one of the leading scholars of African American history—gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk. Here are numerous voices expressing very different political, cultural, and historical views, from black conservatives, to black separatists, to blacks who advocate radical democratic transformation. Here are topics ranging from race and revolution in Cuba, to the crack epidemic in Harlem, to Afrocentrism and its critics. All of these voices, however, are engaged in some aspect of what Marable sees as the essential triad of the black intellectual tradition: describing the reality of black life and experiences, critiquing racism and stereotypes, or proposing positive steps for the empowerment of black people. Highlights from Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Manning Marable debate the role of activism in black studies. John Hope Franklin reflects on his role as chair of the President's race initiative. Cornel West discusses topics that range from the future of the NAACP through the controversies surrounding Louis Farrakhan and black nationalism to the very question of what "race" means. Amiri Baraka lays out strategies for a radical new curriculum in our schools and universities. Marable's introduction provides a thorough overview of the history and current state of black studies in America.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:852664650

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The Ebony Tower by John Fowles Pdf

Author : Patricia L. Linn,Adam Howard,Eric Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780805841206

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Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships by Patricia L. Linn,Adam Howard,Eric Miller Pdf

Provides cooperative education and internship professionals and researchers design, carry out, and disseminate quality research and evaluation studies. Highlights key programs and shows how to demonstrate sound learning outcomes. --Publisher description.

Author : Christine Clarke,Carol Nelson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030446635

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Contextualizing Jamaica’s Relationship with the IMF by Christine Clarke,Carol Nelson Pdf

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of Jamaica’s ties to the International Monetary Fund, focusing on Jamaica’s historical relationship with the IMF and reflecting on the domestic and international discourse surrounding the evolution of this relationship. Notably, this volume presents a critical analysis of Jamaica’s first engagement with and departure from the IMF and interrogates the political economy of the period. Jamaica’s economic experiences are assessed in the context of major global events, including the food price crises of 2007 and the global economic crises of 2008 and 2009. This book also looks at policy implications, and its well-researched analysis will be of great value to practitioners and policymakers as well as academics.

Author : Anthony H. Normore,Jeffrey S. Brooks
Publisher : IAP
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623965372

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Educational Leadership for Ethics and Social Justice by Anthony H. Normore,Jeffrey S. Brooks Pdf

The purpose of this book is to examine and learn lessons from the way leadership for social justice is conceptualized in several disciplines and to consider how these lessons might improve the preparation and practice of school leaders. In particular, we examine philosophy, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, public policy, and psychology. Our contention is that the field of educational leadership might consider taking a step backward in order to take several forward. That is, educational leadership researchers might re-examine social justice, both in terms of social and individual dynamics and as disciplinary-specific, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary phenomenon. By adopting this approach, we can connect and extend long-established lines of conceptual and empirical inquiry and thereby gain insights that may otherwise be overlooked or assumed. This holds great promise for generating, refining, and testing theories of social justice in educational leadership and will help strengthen already vibrant lines of inquiry. That is, rather than citing a single, or a few, works out of their disciplinary context it might be more fruitful to situate educational leadership for social justice research in their respective traditions. This could be carried out by extending extant lines of inquiry in educational leadership research and then incorporating lessons gleaned from this work into innovative practice. For example, why not more clearly establish lines of educational leadership and justice research into the Philosophy of Social Justice, Economics of Social Justice, Political Studies of Social Justice , Sociology of Social Justice, Anthropology of Social Justice, and the Public Policy of Social Justice as focused and discrete areas of inquiry? Once this new orientation toward the knowledge base of social justice and educational leadership is laid, we might then seek to explore some of the natural connections between traditions before ultimately investigating justice in educational leadership through a free association of ideas as the worlds of practice and research co-construct a “new” language they can use to discuss educational leadership. Such an endeavor may demand reconceptualization of both the processes and products of collaborative research and the communication of findings, but it will demand a breaking-down of methodological and epistemological biases and a more meaningful level and type of engagement between primary and applied knowledge bases.

Author : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521004373

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Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman Pdf

In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

Author : Theodore Koditschek,Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua,Helen A. Neville
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Race
ISBN : 9780252076480

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Race Struggles by Theodore Koditschek,Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua,Helen A. Neville Pdf

The essays in this collection start with the premise that although race, like class and gender, is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. Race, in other words, is a historical category that develops not only in dialectical relation to class and gender but also in relation to the material conditions in which all three are forged. In addition to discussing and analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience, contributors also consider the ways in which race plays itself out in the experience of Asian Americans and in the very different geopolitical environments of the British Empire and postcolonial Africa. Contributors are Pedro Caban, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, David Crockett, Theodore Koditschek, Scott Kurashige, Clarence Lang, Minkah Makalani, Helen A. Neville, Ibitola O. Pearce, David Roediger, Monica M. White, and Jeffrey Williams.

Author : Jeanette R Davidson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748686971

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African American Studies by Jeanette R Davidson Pdf

This book presents the diverse, expansive nature of African American Studies and its characteristic interdisciplinarity. It is intended for use with undergraduate/ beginning graduate students in African American Studies, American Studies and Ethnic Studie

Author : Jonathan Fenderson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252051272

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Building the Black Arts Movement by Jonathan Fenderson Pdf

As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses historical snapshots of Fuller's life and achievements to rethink the period and establish Fuller's important role in laying the foundation for the movement. In telling Fuller's story, Fenderson provides provocative new insights into the movement's international dimensions, the ways the movement took shape at the local level, the impact of race and other factors, and the challenges--corporate, political, and personal--that Fuller and others faced in trying to build black institutions. An innovative study that approaches the movement from a historical perspective, Building the Black Arts Movement is a much-needed reassessment of the trajectory of African American culture over two explosive decades.

Author : Stephen Ferguson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137549976

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Philosophy of African American Studies by Stephen Ferguson Pdf

In this ground-breaking book, Stephen C. Ferguson addresses a seminal question that is too-often ignored: What should be the philosophical basis for African American studies? The volume explores philosophical issues and problems in their relationship to Black studies. Ferguson shows that philosophy is not a sterile intellectual pursuit, but a critical tool to gathering knowledge about the Black experience. Cultural idealism in various forms has become enormously influential as a framework for Black studies. Ferguson takes on the task of demonstrating how a Marxist philosophical perspective offers a productive and fruitful way of overcoming the limitations of idealism. Focusing on the hugely popular Afrocentric school of thought, this book’s engaging discussion shows that the foundational arguments of cultural idealism are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. In turn, Ferguson argues for the centrality of the Black working class—both men and women—to Black Studies.

Author : Julie Cupples,Ramón Grosfoguel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351667296

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Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University by Julie Cupples,Ramón Grosfoguel Pdf

The westernized university is a site where the production of knowledge is embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies that are posited as objective, disembodied and universal and in which non-Eurocentric knowledges, such as black and indigenous ones, are largely marginalized or dismissed. Consequently, it is an institution that produces racism, sexism and epistemic violence. While this is increasingly being challenged by student activists and some faculty, the westernized university continues to engage in diversity and internationalization initiatives that reproduce structural disadvantages and to work within neoliberal agendas that are incompatible with decolonization. This book draws on decolonial theory to explore the ways in which Eurocentrism in the westernized university is both reproduced and unsettled. It outlines some of the challenges that accompany the decolonization of teaching, learning, research and policy, as well as providing examples of successful decolonial moments and processes. It draws on examples from universities in Europe, New Zealand and the Americas. This book represents a highly timely contribution from both early career and established thinkers in the field. Its themes will be of interest to student activists and to academics and scholars who are seeking to decolonize their research and teaching. It constitutes a decolonizing intervention into the crisis in which the westernized university finds itself.

Author : Molefi Kete Asante,Maulana Karenga
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761928409

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Handbook of Black Studies by Molefi Kete Asante,Maulana Karenga Pdf

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Author : Jane Anna Gordon,Lewis Gordon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405154666

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A Companion to African-American Studies by Jane Anna Gordon,Lewis Gordon Pdf

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

Author : Violet Showers Johnson,Gundolf Graml,Patricia Williams Lessane
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786948205

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Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles by Violet Showers Johnson,Gundolf Graml,Patricia Williams Lessane Pdf

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the African diasporic experience in the 21st century.

Author : Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786421350

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Richard Wright by Keneth Kinnamon Pdf

African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.