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Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Africana StudiesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498530712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana StudiesDDC classification:
  • 960.071
LOC classification:
  • DT19.C667 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Decolonizing the Universities in Africa -- 2 Postmodernist Diversions in African American Thought -- 3 Afrocentricity -- 4 Boundless James Baldwin -- 5 The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing Obstacles to African Integration -- 6 Writing History and Reading Texts -- 7 Retrospective Analysis -- 8 Lewis Gordon's Existential Cartography -- 9 Human Rights Studies as a Sub-Field of Africology -- 10 Engaging Nkrumah's Consciencism -- 11 African and African Diaspora Culture in the World -- 12 Interrogating the Legacy of African Contributions -- 13 The Universal Periodic Review and the Efficacy of Malcolm X's Human Rights Strategy -- Index -- About the Authors.
Summary: This work argues that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. It brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology and offers new interpretations and analysis while challenging the predominant frameworks in philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Decolonizing the Universities in Africa -- 2 Postmodernist Diversions in African American Thought -- 3 Afrocentricity -- 4 Boundless James Baldwin -- 5 The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing Obstacles to African Integration -- 6 Writing History and Reading Texts -- 7 Retrospective Analysis -- 8 Lewis Gordon's Existential Cartography -- 9 Human Rights Studies as a Sub-Field of Africology -- 10 Engaging Nkrumah's Consciencism -- 11 African and African Diaspora Culture in the World -- 12 Interrogating the Legacy of African Contributions -- 13 The Universal Periodic Review and the Efficacy of Malcolm X's Human Rights Strategy -- Index -- About the Authors.

This work argues that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. It brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology and offers new interpretations and analysis while challenging the predominant frameworks in philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.

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