African-American Studies: Legacies & Challenges: “What Would Black Studies Be If We'd Listened to Toni Cade?”

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
African American Studies

Controversial Blackness: The Historical Development & Future Trajectory of African American Studies

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Biondi
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
African American Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
The Road ◽  
History Of

The forty-year history of African American studies has led some scholars to take stock of its roots and its future. This essay examines the field's unexpected origins in black colleges, as well as at predominantly white ones, and assesses the early debates and challenges along the road to academic incorporation. Biondi takes up such questions as: Did the field's origins in the Black Power movement jeopardize its claims to academic legitimacy? If black studies is a discipline, what is its methodology? As an outgrowth of black nationalism on campus, to what extent was black studies U.S.-centric? How did the field relate to the rise of diaspora studies and black feminism? Who takes black studies classes and to what extent does the field retain a political mission? The essay concludes that African American studies remains a vital and dynamic field as it moves into the twenty-first century.

Temple University’s African American Studies PhD Program @ 30: Assessing the Asante Affect

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-575
Author(s):  
Patricia Reid-Merritt
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
African American Studies ◽  
State University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Phd Program

Temple University’s Department of Africology and African American Studies is celebrating its 30th year of operation as a PhD program. Since its inception in l988, the doctoral program at Temple has attracted and produced world-class scholars in the discipline of Africology. Initially started by students at San Francisco State University in l968 as Black Studies, the field has been called by many names, including Afro-American Studies, African American Studies, African World Studies, Africana Studies, Pan African Studies, and Africology. As this modern-day field of study marks its 50th anniversary, it is important that we examine the impact of the 30-year history of the establishment of the first PhD program in Black Studies in the nation, founded at Temple University in the City of Philadelphia. This article offers a preliminary assessment of the far-reaching impact of Temple’s academic leadership in establishing a fundamental base for innovative scholarship and the maturing of the discipline of Africology. More specifically, it focuses on Molefi Kete Asante’s influence, his vision for the discipline, and his extraordinary impact on the field of Africology.

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Kocić Stanković
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American Studies ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
African American Studies ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Academic Courses ◽  
The U.S

My purpose in compiling this book was to produce a “student-friendly” course book in African American Studies, the elective course I designed and introduced into the English Department curriculum at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš. The book is meant to provide a brief introduction into the history and culture of African Americans in the U.S., but could also be of interest to the general public, and, hopefully, may add to the practice of teaching African American literature and history already established at Serbian universities. The main purpose of the book is to get the readers/students acquainted with the key events in African American history, the most important political and cultural figures and the most prominent themes in African American culture. One of the goals would also be to spark further interest in this topic area and open possibilities for similar postgraduate academic courses. As most available books in African American studies deal either with history or literature, I have made an attempt to consider the subject from the perspective of cultural studies, integrating historical data with sociological, political and cultural commentary. I have deemed that such an integrative approach would provide the best insight into the study area and give the fullest picture of the African American contribution to the U.S. and world history and culture. The book is divided into eight chapters covering the period from the origins of the Atlantic slave trade to the contemporary period. The concept of individual chapters is as follows: an outline of the most important events, developments and historical figures of a particular period is followed by two or three brief excerpts from some of the most important works by major African American writers which illustrate the most important theme(s) covered in the chapter, accompanied by a brief commentary with topics and questions for further study.

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