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Book SynopsisAs Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline's theoretical paths. The essays inAfricana Studiesfocus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and music; the crisis of the state; issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism; and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to this volume open exciting avenues for new narratives, philosophies, vision, and scale in this critical field of studyformed during the 1960s around issues of racial injustice in Americato show what Africana Studies is already in the process of becoming. Africana Studiesrecognizes how the discipline has been shaped, changing over the decades as scholars have opened new modes of theoretical engagement such as addressing issues of gender and sexuality, politics, and cultural studies. The essays debate and (re)consider black and diasporic life to sust
Trade Review"This collection, edited by Farred, may be more relevant to comparative literature and European theorists than to Africana studies. Farred's introduction hails Friedrich Nietzsche via French theorists to imagine the future task of Africana studies as the creation of theoretical concepts.... Many of the contributors similarly draw heavily from the works of European theorists.... Summing Up: Recommended."—
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