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This book examines the ideas and work of Jacob H. Carruthers, a key architect of the Nile Valley Studies Movement and a major theorist in the development of the African-centered paradigm. It explicates Carruthers's significant contributions and examines the theoretical and practical implications of his work.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Intellectual Project of Jacob H. Carruthers
Part I: Mis-education, Deeducation, and African-centered Education
Chapter 1: Slavery of the Mind: Carter G. Woodson and Jacob H. Carruthers-Intergenerational Discourse on African Education and Social Change
Chapter 2: Jacob H. Carruthers and the African-Centered Discourse on Knowledge, Worldview, and Power
Chapter 3: Thoughts on Returning Home and Healing the Casualties of Intellectual War
Part II: Jacob H. Carruthers on the Domains of Knowledge Production and African Liberation
Chapter 4: Jacob H. Carruthers, Disciplinarity, and the Limitations of the European-modes of Knowledge Construction
Chapter 5: Drawing from the Deep Well: Reflections on African-centered Social Inquiry
Chapter 6: Ideation and Freedom: Continued Meditations on African-centered Social Inquiry
Chapter 7: Kheper and Maat: Consubstantiality in Kemetic Thought
Part III: Re-Africanization and Transformation
Chapter 8: A Deep Commitment to the Higher Ideals of Life: Reflections on African Spirituality
Chapter 9: Building for Eternity: Institution Building and African Liberation
Chapter 10: The Sebayet of the Haitian Revolution: Lessons from Carruthers's Irritated Genie
Conclusion: Finding Our Way Through the Desert: Pan-African Historiography and Futurity
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Summary
This book examines the ideas and work of Jacob H. Carruthers, a key architect of the Nile Valley Studies Movement and a major theorist in the development of the African-centered paradigm. It explicates Carruthers’s significant contributions and examines the theoretical and practical implications of his work.
