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The Handbook of Black Studies is the first resource to bring together research and scholarship in the field of African-American studies in one volume. Editors Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga, along with a pre-eminent group of contributors, examine various aspects of the field of Black Studies. Organized into three parts, this Handbook explores historical and cultural foundations, philosophical and conceptual bases, and critical and analytical concepts.
Graduate Studies Programs in African American Studies
Graduate Studies Programs in African American Studies
It is a well-known fact that African American Studies (AAS) academic units came into existence as a result of great political pressure on European institutions, forcing them to make space for the African voice and experience in the late 1960s. No longer satisfied to be fed the Eurocentric monologue that was occurring on campuses under the guise of education and whose main purpose was the reinforcement and justification of European supremacy and to pay the cost of Europe's cultural soliloquy—namely, their disenfranchisement and alienation from the classroom (Asante, 1992)—African students and community activists brought to the fore of the discussion the question of educational relevance for Black people, arguing for a culturally ...
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