{"product_id":"companion-to-afr-amer-studies-9780631235163","title":"Companion to Afr Amer Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to African-American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCreates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCaptures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent … resource … edited with an excellent introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon, which includes articles by a wide range of scholars that document the development of black studies in the United States and outline the trajectories of the field in all its multi-genre richness.” (\u003ci\u003eYear's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2008)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on the Text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: On Working through a Most Difficult Terrain. (Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Stones That Former Builders Refused.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story. (Houston Baker, Jr.).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline. (Molefi Kete Asante).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-American Studies at Brown University, 1969-1986. (Rhett Jones).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View. (Charlotte Morgan-Cato).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. From the Birth to a Mature Afro-American Studies at Harvard, 1969-2002. (Martin Kilson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action. (Johnnella E. Butler).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. A Debate on Activism in Black Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Manning Marable).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African American Studies. (Herman Beavers).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. 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).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace. (Hazel V. Carby).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception. (Nell Irvin Painter).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man. (Robert Paul Wolff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Such Fertile Fields. . ..\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA The Blues Are Brewing . . . for a Humanistic Humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Homage to Mistress Wheatley . (Rowan Ricardo Phillips).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child: Placing the Humanities at the Core of Black Studies. (Joyce Ann Joyce).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Jazz Consciousness. (Paul Austerlitz).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB What Does It Mean to Be a Problem?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Afro-American Studies and the Rise of African-American Philosophy. (Paget Henry).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience . (Tukufu Zuberi).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics. (Alvin Poussaint and Amy Alexander).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social-Scientific Method by the Study of Race. (Jane Anna Gordon).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. African-American Queer Studies . (David Ross Fryer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law . (Clevis Headley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC Having Hitherto Interpreted the World, the Point is to Change It.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Unthinkable History?: Some Reflections on the Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery. (Sibylle Fischer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African-American Studies to Modernity. (Stefan M. Wheelock).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African-American History. (Peniel E. Joseph).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Reflections on African-American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom. (B. Anthony Bogues).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age. (Floyd Hayes, III).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD Not by Bread Alone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts. (Charles Finch, III).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion. (William D. Hart).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity. (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Orienting Afro-American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity in Literature on Black Jews in America. (Walter Isaac).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Creolization and the Geography of Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Playing with the Dark: The Deployment of Blackness and Brownness in the Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations. (Claudia M. Milian Arias).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries. (Anani Dzidzienyo).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies. (Lewis R. Gordon).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403459666263,"sku":"9780631235163","price":144.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631235163.jpg?v=1730483535","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/companion-to-afr-amer-studies-9780631235163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}