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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- I History and Context of African American Studies -- 2 Danny Glover: Memories from 1968 -- 3 Pedagogy and Decolonization: Historical Refl ections on Origins of Black Studies in the United States -- 4 Toward Radical Pan-African Pedagogy and Civic Education -- 5 The "Field and Function" of Africana Studies: Insights from the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois -- II African American Studies: Theories and Methodologies -- 6 African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms -- 7 Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline -- 8 Revisiting White Privilege: Pedagogy in Black Studies -- 9 Social Science Research in Africana Studies: Ethical Protocols and Guidelines -- 10 Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment -- III Social Responsibility, Service Learning and Activism -- 11 Africana Studies and Community Service: Using the STRENGTH Model -- 12 Africana Studies and Civic Engagement -- 13 Danny Glover and Manning Marable: Activism Through Art and Scholarship -- 14 Contemporary Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Artistic Expression and Activism -- IV Selected Areas of Scholarship in the Discipline -- 15 He Wasn't Man Enough: Black Male Studies and the Ethnological Targeting of Black Men in Nineteenth-Century Suffragist Thought -- 16 Reading Black Through the Looking Glass: Decoding the Encoding in African Diasporic Literature -- 17 Diversity and Representations of Blackness in Comic Books -- 18 Black Athletes and the Problematic of Integration in Sport -- 19 African American Music: The Ties That Bind -- 20 Afrofuturism and the Question of Visual Reparations -- 21 The Black Studies Movement in Britain -- Index

A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Harlem rides the range": Expansion, modernity, and negro success -- 2. Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives: Exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution -- 3. Prisms of imperial gaze: Swinging the negro mikado -- 4. Lens/body: Anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora -- 5. Ethnographic refraction: Exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in the devil's daughter -- 6. No storm in the weather: Domestic bliss and African American performance -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This collection presents papers on various issues of social development in Africa. The contributors are historians, philosophers, economists, legal experts, sociologists, literary specialists, linguists, educationalists and scholars of culture. (DÜI-Hff)

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND MAP -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Legacies -- 3 Racial and Ethnic Identity Choices -- 4 West Indians at Work -- 5 Encountering American Race Relations -- 6 Intergenerational Dynamics -- 7 Segregated Neighborhoods and Schools -- 8 Identities of the Second Generation -- 9 Immigrants and American Race Relations -- Appendix: Notes on Methodology -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Changing Class Structure of Black America and the Political Behavior of African Americans -- 2. The Changing Class Structure of Black America and the Political Behavior of African Americans -- 3. The Politicization of African-American Racial Group Interests -- 4. Models of African-American Racial and Economic Group Interests -- 5. African-American Partisanship and the American Party System -- 6. African-American Political Choice -- 7. Racial Group Interests, African-American Presidential Approval, and Macroeconomic Policy -- 8. Group Interests, Class Divisions, and African- American Policy Preferences -- 9. Epilogue: Racial Group Interests, Class, and the Future of African-American Politics -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one. The historical foundation -- 1 Eurocentrism: Racial Formation and the Master Racial Project -- 2 The Brazilian Path: The Ternary Racial Project -- 3 The Brazilian Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Ternary Racial Project -- 4 The U.S. Path: The Binary Racial Project -- 5 The U.S. Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Binary Racial Project -- Part two. Converging paths -- 6 A New U.S. Racial Order: The Demise of Jim Crow Segregation -- 7 A New Brazilian Racial Order: A Decline in the Racial Democracy Ideology -- 8 The U.S. Convergence: Toward the Brazilian Path -- 9 The Brazilian Convergence: Toward the U.S. Path -- Epilogue. The U.S. and Brazilian Racial Orders: Changing Points of Reference -- References -- Index