With an all-star cast of contributors, The Black Studies Reader takes on the history and future of this multi-faceted academic field. This authoritative collection takes a critical look at the current state of Black studies and speculates on where it may go from here.
Author(s): Jacqueline Bobo, Cynthia Hudley, Claudine Michel
Edition: 1st Paperback
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 432
Front cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
CREDITS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
PART I: THEORIZING BLACK STUDIES......Page 26
CHAPTER 1. THE INELLECTUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFAFRICANA STUDENTS......Page 28
CHAPTER 2. BLACK STUDIES IN LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION......Page 34
CHAPTER 3. THEORIZING BLACK STUDIES : The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class......Page 48
CHAPTER 4. HOW THE WEST WAS ONE: On the Uses and Limitations of Diaspora......Page 54
CHAPTER 5. WOMANIST CONSCIOUSNESS: Magie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke......Page 60
CHAPTER 6. DISCONTENTED BLACK FEMINISTS: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment......Page 78
CHAPTER 7. ELLA BAKER AND THE ORIGINS OF "PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY"......Page 92
CHAPTER 8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE ACADEMY......Page 104
CHAPTER 9. HOW DEEP, HOW WIDE?: Perspectives on the Making of The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry......Page 114
CHAPTER 10. MILITARY RITES AND WRONGS: African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces......Page 126
CHAPTER 11. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE, POLICE BRUTALITY, OR GOVERNMENTAL REPRESSION?: The 1962 Los Angeles Police Shooting of Seven Members of the Nation of Islam......Page 152
CHAPTER 12. SOME GLANCES AT THE BLACK GAG: Race, Same-Sex Desire, and Cultureal Belonging......Page 166
PART II: CONCEPTUALIZING CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY......Page 188
CHAPTER 13. THE COLOR PURPLE: Black Women as Cultural Readers......Page 190
CHAPTER 14. BLACK TALK RADIO: Defining Community Needs and Identity......Page 206
CHAPTER 15. CHASING FAE: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility......Page 224
CHAPTER 16. DREADPATH/LOCKSPIRIT......Page 238
CHAPTER 17. IN THE YEAR 1915: D.W. Griffith and the Whitening of America......Page 242
CHAPTER 18. WHAT IS THIS "BLACK" IN BLACK POPULAR CULTURE?......Page 268
CHAPTER 19. DYES AND DOLLS: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference......Page 278
CHAPTER 20. AFRICAN SIGNS AND SPIRIT WRITING......Page 294
PART III: SEXUALITY, EDUCATION, RELIGION......Page 312
CHAPTER 21. BLACK (W)HOLES AND THE GEOMETRY OF BLACK FEMALE SEXUALITY......Page 314
CHAPTER 22. BLACK BODIES/GAT BODIES: The Politics of Race in the Gay/Military Battle......Page 328
CHAPTER 23. HORMONES AND MELANIN: The Dimensions of "Race," Sex, and Gender in Africology; Reflexive Journeys......Page 342
CHAPTER 24. CAN THE QUEEN SPEAK?: Racial Essentialism, Sexuality, and the Problem of Authority......Page 356
CHAPTER 25. HOME-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS THROUGH THE EYES OF PARENTS......Page 372
CHAPTER 26. DESEGREGATION EXPERIENCES OF MINORITY STUDENTS: Adolescent Copin Strategies in Five Connecticut High Schools......Page 380
CHAPTER 27. RACIAL SOCIALIZATION STRATEGIES OF PARENTS IN THREE BLACK PRIVATE SCHOOLS......Page 392
CHAPTER 28. TALKING ABOUT RACE, LEARNING ABOUT RACISM: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom......Page 402
CHAPTER 29. SLAVE IDEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION......Page 426
CHAPTER 30. BLACK THEOOGY AND THE BLACK WOMAN......Page 434
CHAPTER 31. TEACHING HAITIAN VODOU......Page 448
CHAPTER 32. ISLAM IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE......Page 458
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 486
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 488
INDEX......Page 496
Back cover......Page 502
