Africana Studies: Beyond Race, Class, and Culture reflects a wide variety of topics regarding Africana Studies and addresses how Africana Studies are affected by a changing global “village.” The readings contribute a critical study of African people from many different points of view, each important in their own right.
Resulting from a collaborative effort at 39th Annual Conference of the New York African Studies Association (NYASA), selected readings in Africana Studies: Beyond Race, Class, and Culture were judged by: criticality, substance, pertinence, eclecticism, and transformative conceptualizations.
Africana Studies: Beyond Race, Class, and Culture includes:
- Various points of view, from college administrators to social scientists to the general student population.
- Shows the evolution of Africana Studies from various backgrounds and terms.
- Questions the nature of Africana Studies in modern times amongst modern issues.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Seth N. Asumah and John K. Marah
1. Reframing Africana Studies: Old Challenges and New Visions:
Seth N. Asumah, State University of New York at Cortland
2. Race as Episteme in Africana Studies
Beth Hinderliter and Noelle Chaddock, SUNY Buffalo and SUNY Cortland
3. The Epistolary Journal in the Post-Colonial Light
Rachelann Lopp Copland, SUNY Morrisville
4. Going Back to Tradition: Chieftaincy Making a Return
Jean Richard Severin, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio
5. The Black Panthers in Algeria, 1969-1974.
Abdeldjalil Larbi youcef, University Abd El Hamid Ibn Badis, Algeria
6. Mao Zedong Revisited Political Thought: Any Lessons for Current Africa-Asia Relations?
Tukumbi Lumba-Kasongo, Cornell University
7. Helping African American Minorities Do Well in School
John Karefah Marah, SUNY College at Brockport
8. Women’s Rights within the Traditional System in Ghana
Jean Richard Severin, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio
9. Africans Say “Tribe” : Identity (ies) in Daily Life
Phyllis A. Puffer, Big Sandy Community and Technical College Prestonsburg KY
10. Teaching Africa through African Literature
John Karefah Marah, SUNY College at Brockport