7 Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Foreword x
5. Notes on Contributors xiii
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. I History and Context of African American Studies
8. 2 Danny Glover: Memories from 1968 17
9. 3 Pedagogy and Decolonization: Historical Refl ections on Origins of Black Studies in the United States 26
10. 4 Toward Radical Pan-African Pedagogy and Civic Education 38
11. 5 The “Field and Function” of Africana Studies: Insights from the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois 53
12. II African American Studies: Theories and Methodologies
13. 6 African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms 71
14. 7 Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline 84
15. 8 Revisiting White Privilege: Pedagogy in Black Studies 99
16. 9 Social Science Research in Africana Studies: Ethical Protocols and Guidelines 118
17. 10 Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment 126
18. III Social Responsibility, Service Learning and Activism
19. 11 Africana Studies and Community Service: Using the STRENGTH Model 141
20. 12 Africana Studies and Civic Engagement 157
21. 13 Danny Glover and Manning Marable: Activism Through Art and Scholarship 168
22. 14 Contemporary Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Artistic Expression and Activism 187
23. IV Selected Areas of Scholarship in the Discipline
24. 15 He Wasn’t Man Enough: Black Male Studies and the Ethnological Targeting of Black Men in Nineteenth-Century Suffragist Thought 209
25. 16 Reading Black Through the Looking Glass: Decoding the Encoding in African Diasporic Literature 225
26. 17 Diversity and Representations of Blackness in Comic Books 238
27. 18 Black Athletes and the Problematic of Integration in Sport 251
28. 19 African American Music: The Ties That Bind 263
29. 20 Afrofuturism and the Question of Visual Reparations 280
30. 21 The Black Studies Movement in Britain 292
31. Index 303