Dispatches from the ebony tower : intellectuals confront the African American experience

Dispatches from the ebony tower : intellectuals confront the African American experience / edited by Manning Marable.

"What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable - one of the leading scholars of African American history - gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the ri...

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Other Authors: Marable, Manning, 1950-2011
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
African Americans > Study and teaching (Higher)
Black people > Study and teaching (Higher)
United States > Race relations > Study and teaching (Higher)
United States > Ethnic relations > Study and teaching (Higher)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: black studies and the racial mountain / Manning Marable
  • Toward an effective antiracism / Nikhil Pal Singh
  • Political moment in Jamaica: the dimensions of hegemonic dissolution / Brian Meeks
  • Sandoms and other exotic women: prostitution and race in the Caribbean / Kamala Kempadoo
  • Race and revolution in Cuba: African American perspectives / Manning Marable
  • Fire this time: Harlem and its discontents at the turn of the century / Johanna Fernandez
  • Crack cocaine and Harlem's health / Beverly Xaviera Watkins and Mindy Thompson Fullilove.
  • African American studies and the "warring ideals": the color line meets the borderlands / Johnnella E. Butler
  • Future of black studies: political communities and the "talented tenth" / Joy James
  • Black studies and the question of class / Bill Fletcher
  • Black studies: a critical reassessment / Maulana Karenga
  • Black studies revisited / Martin Kilson
  • Theorizing black studies: the continuing role of community service in the study of race and class / James Jennings
  • Debate on activism in black studies / Henry Louis Gates and Manning Marable.
  • Afrocentricity, race, and reason / Molefi Kete Asante
  • Afrocentrics, afro-elitists, and afro-eccentrics: the polarization of black studies since the student struggles of the sixties / Melba Joyce Boyd
  • Reclaiming culture: the dialectics of identity / Leith Mullings
  • Afrocentrism, cultural nationalism, and the problem with essentialist definitions of race, gender, and sexuality / Barbara Ransby
  • Afrocentricity and the American dream / Lee D. Baker
  • Multinational, multicultural America versus white supremacy / Amiri Baraka.
  • Problematics of ethnic studies / Manning Marable
  • Prophetic alternatives: a conversation with Cornel West
  • Race in American life: a conversation with John Hope Franklin.

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