The History of Black Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Alkalimat
Keyword(s):  
Black Studies ◽  
History Of

A Campus Counter Tour: Performing institutional narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-183
Author(s):  
Claire Syler
Keyword(s):  
Black Studies ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Walking Tour ◽  
Applied Theatre ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Us University ◽  
Walking Tours

Abstract This article traces the work of a cross-listed Theatre and Black Studies performance course at a US university that had recently experienced campus protests concerning anti-black racism. The course culminated in an admissions-style walking tour that critically analysed the university environment by juxtaposing dominant institutional narratives with counter accounts performed by a multi-ethnic ensemble of students. The article begins by contextualizing the university's history of anti-black racism and then describes the curriculum created for the class and the broader Campus Counter Tour performance. To conclude, it discusses the assets embedded in the Counter Tour project (accessibility, coalition building, and participation in a movement), which could be valuable for applied theatre practitioners interested in using walking tours to address institutional narratives bound up in racism or colonialism more broadly.

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.

Cultures of Compensation

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (99) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Jeremy Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Ecological Site ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

The current highly-advanced form of capitalism – turbocharged by the cybernetic revolution and engaging in all imaginable forms of creative destruction – provides the backdrop to many of the articles in this issue. They are broadly concerned with the question of how capitalist cultures (and their agents) retain legitimacy in an era of extreme commercialisation and insecurity. Josh Bowsher and Theo Reeves-Evison examine the politics of ecological credit schemes, that allow businesses to destroy a discrete ecosystem in return for the restoration of an ecological site elsewhere. Nancy Ettlinger situates the emergence of for-profit crowdsourcing as a key contemporary mode of value-extraction in the longer history of ‘prosumption’. Michael Symons and Marion Maddox offer a fascinating study of the mechanisms by which the explicitly commercial and profit-oriented nature of a range of social activities within advanced capitalist societies – including megachurches - come to be understood as guarantees of the legitimacy and authenticity of those activities themselves. Ella Harris’ considers ‘compensatory cultures’: cultures that are compensatory responses to crisis, but are presented and received as desirable, even preferable ways of organising life. On a somewhat different topic, but one no less relevant to the exigencies of our present moment, or less central to the core concerns of New Formations – Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma’s ‘What is this ‘Black’ in Black Studies ?’maps out a new presence in race discourse in the UK arts and higher education, under the heading of ‘US Black Critical Thought’. And the issue begins with a substantial interview with the great Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller who died in 2019.

Expanding the History of the Black Studies Movement: Some Prefatory Notes

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Fenderson ◽  
James Stewart ◽  
Kabria Baumgartner
Keyword(s):  
Black Studies ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Against colonial grounds: Geography on Indigenous lands

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Curley ◽  
Sara Smith
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Us South ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inside Out

In this response to Natalie Oswin’s provocation, ‘An other geography’, we consider how we might work against settler narratives and structures from our situated positions in the discipline and in a specific academic institution in the US South. Following Diné student Majerle Lister, we ask what it would mean to consider giving the land back: what does that entail? The academic institutions we inhabit were built to insure white futurity, on fictive histories. Can they be retrofitted in the present to enable the futurity of Indigenous people and theorizations? Can we turn our discipline’s history of erasure inside out, to center the land, people, and practices that were both crucial to and absent from it except as shadowy and metaphorical presences? We draw on our own teaching, and from scholarship in Indigenous and Black Studies, to consider what it might look like to return land and reconfigure relations among those who have been cast aside by white patriarchal settler structures, but in incommensurate ways.

scholarly journals Racial geographies of the Anthropocene: Memory and erasure in Rio de Janeiro

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110264
Author(s):  
Mariana Reyes-Carranza
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Port Area ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe

This paper interrogates the extent to which imaginaries of climate and ecological breakdown attend to the memories, knowledges, and experiences of communities already impacted by histories of racism, colonialism, and poverty. Drawing on insights from Black studies and decolonial thinking, the article reflects on how the causes and effects of anthropogenic climate change can be mapped onto geographies of racialised violence and social dispossession. Specific emphasis is given to Rio de Janeiro, notably its port area, a geographical space where future-oriented narratives remain oblivious to the city’s history of anti-Black violence and Indigenous genocide. In parallel, the paper looks at the recently built Museum of Tomorrow and its public representations of the Anthropocene. Overall, the article contends that pluralising accounts of the Anthropocene might offer alternative epistemic entry points for understanding and interrupting the mounting ecological catastrophe.

scholarly journals After Sexology

Social Text ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Joan Lubin ◽  
Jeanne Vaccaro
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moynihan Report

Abstract Is sexology over? What does one do with its history, at once a seemingly remote relic and a persistent logic of biopolitics today? “Sexology and Its Afterlives” begins from the premise that the history of sexology lives in the infrastructures of the present. Locating the afterlives of sexology in material and aesthetic form, this introduction to the special issue engages the largely unmarked detritus of a disaggregated sexological project, whose components have found renewed life in the biopolitical apparatus. The contributors to this issue identify not only familiar sites of sexological persistence (the sex-segregated public toilet) but also less immediately obvious ones (the Moynihan report, redlining, the army base) as executing the unfinished business of the sexological project. This breadth of sexological diffusion makes its analysis a necessarily interdisciplinary prospect, and the contributors call on disability studies, trans studies, Black studies, women-of-color feminism, visual culture, and the history of sexuality, generating emergent concepts, including crip-of-color critique (Kim), binary-abolitionist praxis (Stryker), a “trans-mad” aesthetic (Crawford), and a shift toward expressivity as a framework (Musser). Across the issue, newly imagined sites of collective politics come into view as a payoff for working through the stalled-out imaginaries of sexological binarisms.

“This Quiet Revolution”

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-330
Author(s):  
Eli Meyerhoff
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Third World ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Student Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
State College ◽  
Experimental College ◽  
History Of ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
The Third World

One of the most revolutionary movements in the history of US universities—the Third World students’ strike that shut down San Francisco (SF) State College for five months in 1968–69—had a key precursor in the Experimental College (EC), which supported student-organized courses, including the first Black studies courses, at SF State. The EC offers inspiration for creating infrastructures of radical imagination and study. The EC appropriated resources—including spaces, money, teachers, credits, and technologies—for studying within, against, and beyond the normal university. The EC facilitated courses with revolutionary content, and they fostered modes of study in these courses that were radically alternative to the education-based mode of study. Contributing my concept of “modes of study,” I offer guidance for revolutionary movements on the terrain of universities today. Through analysis of archival materials and interviews with organizers of the EC and Black Student Union, I found that the EC organizers’ potentials for supporting revolutionary study were limited by their romanticizing of education, which was coconstituted with subscriptions to modernist imaginaries. Rejecting the education-based mode of study as bound up with liberal-capitalist modernity/coloniality, organizers today can appropriate their universities’ resources for alternative modes of study and world-making.

The History of Black Studies in Japan

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 829-845
Author(s):  
Tsunehiko Kato
Keyword(s):  
Black Studies ◽  
History Of
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