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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A Companion to African-American Studies is a groundbreaking reappraisal of the history and future of African-American studies. Each original essay by an expert scholar in the field covers its topic with authority and clarity. This book is a definitive intervention at a critical time in the history of race relations and in the academic field of race and ethnic studies. Bringing together a dazzling array of established and emergent voices, the Companion opens with a series of reflections from those who waged pitched battles to establish African-American studies as a bona fide academic discipline. Students and scholars will find this to be an exciting and comprehensive overview, and an ideal resource for study and further research. Zusammenfassung A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgments. Note on the Text. Introduction: On Working through a Most Difficult Terrain. (Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon). Part I: Stones That Former Builders Refused. 1. On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story. (Houston Baker, Jr.). 2. Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline. (Molefi Kete Asante). 3. Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-American Studies at Brown University, 1969-1986. (Rhett Jones). 4. Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View. (Charlotte Morgan-Cato). 5. From the Birth to a Mature Afro-American Studies at Harvard, 1969-2002. (Martin Kilson). 6. Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action. (Johnnella E. Butler). 7. A Debate on Activism in Black Studies. (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Manning Marable). 8. Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African American Studies. (Herman Beavers). 9. On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project. (Sylvia Wynter). 10. The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace. (Hazel V. Carby). 11. Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception. (Nell Irvin Painter). 12. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man. (Robert Paul Wolff). Part II: Such Fertile Fields. . .. A The Blues Are Brewing . . . for a Humanistic Humanism. 13. Homage to Mistress Wheatley . (Rowan Ricardo Phillips). 14. Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child: Placing the Humanities at the Core of Black Studies. (Joyce Ann Joyce). 15. Jazz Consciousness. (Paul Austerlitz).<...
