Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvMolefi Kete Asante,Clyde Ledbetter Jr.,Molefi Kete (Temple University) Asante,Clyde Ledbetter

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-03-27
Mått149 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Africana Studies
Antal sidor242
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498530729

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Introduction: Contemporary Critical Contours: Africology and Africana Studies, Molefi Kete Asante and Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr.Chapter 1: Decolonizing the Universities in Africa: An Approach to Transformation, Molefi Kete AsanteChapter 2: Postmodernist Diversions In African American Thought, Daryl B. HarrisChapter 3: Afrocentricity: A Critical Bibliography, Molefi Kete AsanteChapter 4: Boundless James Baldwin: Assessing the Creative Freedom of a Cultural Critic, Aaron X. SmithChapter 5: The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing Obstacles to Integration, Molefi Kete AsanteChapter 6: Writing History and Reading Texts: An Afrocentric Narrative of Culture, Nilgun Anadolu OkurChapter 7: Retrospective Analysis: The Movement Against African Centered Thought, Michael T. TillotsonChapter 8: Lewis Gordon’s Existential Cartography, Molefi Kete AsanteChapter 9: Human Rights Studies as a Sub-Field of Africology, Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr.Chapter 10: Engaging Kwame Nkrumah’s Consciencism: An Afrocentr

This anthology of Africological texts is both an outcry against senseless attempts to ignore and dismiss the intellectual production of Afrocentric critical thinkers and an important academic contribution to strengthening the identity of the discipline. Anchored to the best praxis of Temple School critical thinking, a stronghold of Africology, the contributors to this volume present their critical studies on history, culture, language, and politics from an Afrocentric perspective. In fact, they are working towards the creation of a liberating discourse that operates simultaneously in the spheres of the personal, the community, nature, and the world. This work is a fundamental piece of Africological scholarship for graduate and undergraduate students and researchers seeking to pursue their intellectual quest within the discipline.