African American History Reconsidered

Klappentext This groundbreaking volume discusses a wide range of issues, themes and paradigms for understanding and analyzing African American history, including the twentieth-century black historical enterprise, the teaching of African American history for the twenty-first century, the hip-hop generation's relationship to and interpretations of African American history, and the social construction of knowledge in African American historiography. A bold contribution to the growing fields of African American historiography and the philosophy of black history, African American History Reconsidered offers numerous analytical frameworks for understanding and delving into a variety of dimensions of the African American historical experience. Zusammenfassung Offers perspectives on black history - its scholarship and pedagogy! scholars and interpreters! and evolution as a profession. This book discusses various issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history! the 20th century black historical enterprise! and the teaching of African American history for the 21st century.

Product details

• Authors: Pero Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9780252077012
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07701-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: New Black Studies Series; New Black Studies; New Black Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology