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This Committee was organised by interested scholars meeting in December 1962 at McGill University in Montreal. Representatives were present from the Islamic Institute, the Universities of Alberta (Edmonton), McGill, Montreal, New Brunswick, and Toronto, and from Loyola College and the Ontario Agricultural College. Expressions of interest were also received from Alberta (Calgary), British Columbia (Vancouver and Victoria), Manitoba, Memorial, Queens, Carleton, Waterloo, and York Universities. Professor Ronald Cohen (McGill) was elected chairman, Professor Donald C. Savage (Loyola) executive secretary, and Professor Donald L. Wiedner (Alberta-Edmonton) editor of a proposed annual bulletin. Organisational support and assistance was given by Dr J. R. Kidd, executive secretary of the Social Science Research and Humanities Research Councils of Canada, with which the Committee on African Studies is to be affiliated for its first two years.

Bringing together a range of scholars from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies offers an overview of contemporary debates as well as an exploration of new directions in the dynamic field of race and ethnicity

Despite a decade of sociological research documenting black fathers' significant level of engagement with their children, stereotypes of black men as "deadbeat dads" still shape popular perceptions and scholarly discourse. In Fathering from the Margins, sociologist Aasha M. Abdill draws on four years of fieldwork in low-income, predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to dispel these destructive assumptions. She considers the obstacles faced—and the strategies used—by black men with children.Abdill presents qualitative and quantitative evidence that confirms the increasing presence of black fathers in their communities, arguing that changing social norms about gender roles in black families have shifted fathering behaviors. Black men in communities such as Bed-Stuy still face social and structural disadvantages, including disproportionate unemployment and incarceration, with significant implications for family life. Against this backdrop, black fathers attempt to reconcile contradictory beliefs about what makes one a good father and what makes one a respected man by developing different strategies for expressing affection and providing parental support. Black men's involvement with their children is affected by the attitudes of their peers, the media, and especially the women of their families and communities: from the grandmothers who often become gatekeepers to involvement in a child's life to the female-dominated sectors of childcare, primary school, and family-service provision. Abdill shows how supporting black men in their quest to be—and be seen as—family men is the key to securing not only their children's well-being but also their own.

[Italiano]: L'idea e il materiale di questo libro sulla questione dell'agency negli studi africani derivano dal seminario di studi internazionale organizzato dal CeSAC (Centro Studi sull'Africa Contemporanea) dell'Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", presso la Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione a ottobre 2019. Il tema è stato affrontato da diverse prospettive e approcci disciplinari agli studi africani nelle scienze umane e sociali. La prima parte del volume comprende nove capitoli basati su altrettante ricerche empiriche sul terreno nelle scienze politiche e sociali che affrontano la questione dell'agency attraverso le più svariate sfere di indagine quali migrazioni e studi urbani, pratiche religiose, lavoro informale, élite, analisi delle politiche pubbliche. La seconda parte invece consiste di sei capitoli che riguardano gli studi culturali, di genere e dei media, analizzando la versione culturalmente mediata dell'agency, che si ritrova in particolari pratiche e luoghi, così come negli interventi/azioni (auto)etnografici, teoretici e militanti. Il libro è il prodotto della collaborazione tra l'Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (UNIOR) e la University of Johannesburg (UJ) ed è stato curato da Antonio Pezzano e Daniela Pioppi per il CeSAC-UNIOR e da Varona Sathiyah e Pier Paolo Frassinelli per il Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Media (UJ)./ [English]: The idea and material for this book on the question of agency in African studies came from an international workshop organised by the Centre for Contemporary African Studies (CeSAC), University of Naples "L'Orientale", held at the Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione, in October 2019. The topic was tackled from different perspectives and approaches to African studies in the humanities and social sciences. The first part of the volume collects nine chapters based on nine empirical research in the field of social and political sciences with very diverse spheres of enquiry such as migration and urban studies, religious practices, ...

The idea of "Area studies" emerged before the Cold War. However, we must distinguish the genesis of the idea from its later institutionalisation in Western universities post-1945. Using African studies as a case, this paper examine the early origins of Area studies pre-1945, chiefly in England. We then trace the development of African studies in the USA, its connection to the changing political and economic interests after 1945 and its belated development in Brazil. This version of African studies largely reflected the evolving interests of countries who supported and funded it. It produced usable knowledge that primarily advanced their colonial and neo-colonial enterprises. Gatekeepers arose in the Global North, who founded well supported academic journals and African studies associations that, for a while, seldom engaged with black scholars in Africa. African studies scholars are still dealing with these fractured legacies and research agenda that favours funders from the Global North.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Finding Du Bois -- Introduction -- 1. Double Consciousness: The Phenomenology of Racialized Subjectivity -- 2. Racial and Colonial Capitalism -- 3. Du Bois's Urban and Community Research Program -- 4. Public Sociology and Du Bois's Evolving Program for Freedom -- 5. A Manifesto for a Contemporary Du Boisian Sociology -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Key Concepts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors

Thinking about the African Studies Association – what it could do, ought to be doing, or should have done – brings to mind the suggestion once offered by some prominent academic group that the priority of their university African studies program should be Phonetics.