Contemporary critical thought in Africology and Africana studies / edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Clyde Ledbetter Jr.

"Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric stu...

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Main Authors: Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942- (Author, Editor), Ledbetter, Clyde, Jr (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016.
Series:Critical Africana studies.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Introduction: Contemporary critical contours: Africology and Africana studies /  |r Molefi Kete Asante and Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr. --  |t Decolonizing the universities in Africa: an approach to transformation /  |r Molefi Kete Asante --  |t Postmodernist diversions in African American thought /  |r Daryl B. Harris --  |t Afrocentricity: a critical bibliography /  |r Molefi Kete Asante --  |t Boundless James Baldwin: assessing the creative freedom of a cultural critic /  |r Aaron X. Smith --  |t The role of an Afrocentric ideology in reducing obstacles to integration /  |r Molefi Kete Asante --  |t Writing history and reading texts: an Afrocentric narrative of culture /  |r Nilgun Anadolu Okur --  |t Retrospective analysis: the movement against African centered thought /  |r Michael T. Tillotson --  |t Lewis Gordon's existential cartography /  |r Molefi Kete Asante --  |t Human rights studies as a sub-field of Africology /  |r Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr. --  |t Engaging Kwame Nkrumah's consciencism: an Afrocentric close reading /  |r Molefi Kete Asante --  |t African and African diaspora culture in the world /  |r Molefi Kete Asante --  |t Interrogating the legacy of African contributions /  |r Molefi Kete Asante --  |t The universal periodic review and Malcolm X's human rights strategy /  |r Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr. 
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520 |a "Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. The book brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology (Africana Studies) for the purpose of sparking further debate, critical interpretations and extensions, and to reform and reformulate the way we approach our critical thought. The contributors' Afrocentric approach offers new interpretations and analysis, and challenges the predominant frameworks in diverse areas such as philosophy, social justice, literature, and history"--Provided by publisher 
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