About the Book

This book brings together chapters authored by leading African American Studies/Black Studies scholars in the USA and the UK. It focuses on the roots of the discipline, reaching back to early brilliant Black intellectuals, discusses the historical and epistemological development of formal Black Studies, setting these in their socio-political contexts, and presents research methodologies and guidelines that are appropriate and valid for people of African descent. A number of chapters direct attention to the discipline's longstanding commitment to social responsibility with chapters that focus on arts and activism, service learning and civic engagement, and present tangible examples for students. The book concludes with chapters on diverse research topics inclusive of history and gender, literature, sport, music, representation in comic books, afrofuturism, and the Black Studies Movement in the UK.

Table of Contents:
AcknowledgementsForewordNotes on Contributors 1. Introduction - Jeanette R. Davidson I. HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 2. Danny Glover: Memories from 1968 - Jeanette R. Davidson 3. Pedagogy and Decolonization: Historical Reflections on Origins of Black Studies in the United States - Ben Keppel 4. Toward Radical Pan-African Pedagogy and Civic Education - Greg Graham 5. The "Field and Function" of Africana Studies: Insights from the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois - James B. Stewart II. AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES 6. African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms - Perry A. Hall 7. Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline - Molefi Kete Asante 8. Revisiting White Privilege: Pedagogy in Black Studies - Tim Davidson and Jeanette R. Davidson 9. Social Science Research in Africana Studies: Ethical Protocols and Guidelines - Serie McDougal III 10. Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment - Leslie M. Alexander and Curtis J. Austin III. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, SERVICE LEARNING AND ACTIVISM 11. Africana Studies and Community Service: Using the STRENGTH Model - Jeanette R. Davidson and Tim Davidson 12. Africana Studies and Civic Engagement -Kevin L. Brooks 13. Danny Glover and Manning Marable: Activism Through Art and Scholarship - Jeanette R. Davidson 14. Contemporary Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Artistic Expression and Activism - Ebony Iman Dallas, Marie Casimir and Jeanette R. Davidson 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 - Tommy J. Curry 16. Reading Black Through the Looking Glass: Decoding the Encoding in African Diasporic Literature - Georgene Bess Montgomery 17. Diversity and Representations of Blackness in Comic Books - Grace D. Gipson 18. Black Athletes and the Problematic of Integration in Sport - Jamal Ratchford 19. African American Music: The Ties That Bind - Alphonso Simpson Jr. 20. Afrofuturism and the Question of Visual Reparations - Tiffany E. Barber 21. The Black Studies Movement in Britain - Kehinde Andrews Index