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Afrocentricity and the Academy: Essays on Theory and Practice » (New Edition)

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Authors: James L. Conyers
ISBN-13: 9780786415427, ISBN-10: 0786415428
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: James L. Conyers

Book Synopsis

Afrocentricity is a philosophical and theoretical perspective that emphasizes the study of Africans as subjects, not as objects. Professors, librarians, and students in higher education who have embraced the Afrocentric perspective examine a range of variations in the Afrocentric paradigm in the areas of history, literature, political science, women's studies, and social policy. Conyers is a researcher in African American Studies. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Preface	1
Pt. 1	Pedagogy and Implementation
	African American Achievement: Using Critical Pedagogy to Critique a Plan Intending to Address Educational Disparities	5
	The Black Studies Paradigm: The Making of Scholar Activists	27
	The Afrocentric Idea in Education	37
	Afrocentricity and the Arrangement of Knowledge	50
Pt. 2	Theoretical Assessment
	W. E. B. Du Bois and/as Africana Critical Theory: Pan-Africanism, Critical Marxism, and Male Feminism	67
	A Theoretical Analysis of Persuasive Tactics Used by Frederick Douglass in "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"	113
	The Philosophy of the Black Power Movement Using Ntu as a Theoretical Construct	123
	African American Intellectual History: Philosophy and Ethos	129
Pt. 3	Critical Analysis
	Afrocentricity and African Psychology	141
	The Black Male Narrative: An Afrocentric Assessment	163
	What Is Afrocentric? Applying Afrocentric Analysis to a Non-Fiction Text	176
Pt. 4	Pan-Africanist Thought
	The Return: Slave Castles and the African Diaspora	187
	The Shebanization of Knowledge	199
	Why Write "Black"? Reclaiming African Culture Resource Knowledges in Diasporic Contexts	211
	"There Was No Better Place to Go"? Quintard Taylor, Afrikancentricity, and the Historiography of the Afrikan Experience in the American West	231
	Mulattos, Freejacks, Cape Verdeans, Black Seminoles, and Others: Afrocentrisim and Mixed-Race Persons	257
	The Interaction Sphere of Nubia and Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the Meroitic Period	286
	About the Contributors	309
	Index	311