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African American Studies

Edited by Jeanette R. Davidson

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A comprehensive and practical text on teaching, understanding and practicing African American Studies
  • Divided into four practical, teachable parts: History and Context of African American Studies; Theories and Methodologies; Social Responsibility, Service Learning and Activism; and Selected Areas of Scholarship in the Discipline
  • Includes new areas of research and scholarship integral to the contemporary social and political discourse about race
  • Showcases interviews with renowned actor and activist Danny Glover and Pulitzer prizewinning scholar Manning Marable
  • Focuses on contemporary women of the African Diaspora and their art, activism and identity
  • Tells the poignant story about the killing of Terence Crutcher by a police officer in Tulsa Oklahoma
  • Explores the experiences of people of African descent impacted by White privilege, through the lens of W.E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison
  • Discusses the story of the torture and persecution of the San Francisco 8, members of the Black Panther Party, targeted by COINTELPRO

This book brings together chapters authored by leading African American Studies/Black Studies scholars in the USA and the UK. It focuses on the roots of the discipline, reaching back to early brilliant Black intellectuals, discusses the historical and epistemological development of formal Black Studies, setting these in their socio-political contexts, and presents research methodologies and guidelines that are appropriate and valid for people of African descent. A number of chapters direct attention to the discipline’s longstanding commitment to social responsibility with chapters that focus on arts and activism, service learning and civic engagement, and present tangible examples for students. The book concludes with chapters on diverse research topics inclusive of history and gender, literature, sport, music, representation in comic books, afrofuturism, and the Black Studies Movement in the UK.

Table of contents

AcknowledgementsForewordNotes on Contributors

1. Introduction - Jeanette R. Davidson

I. HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

2. Danny Glover: Memories from 1968 - Jeanette R. Davidson

3. Pedagogy and Decolonization: Historical Reflections on Origins of Black Studies in the United States - Ben Keppel

4. Toward Radical Pan-African Pedagogy and Civic Education - Greg Graham

5. The "Field and Function" of Africana Studies: Insights from the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois - James B. Stewart

II. AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES

6. African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms - Perry A. Hall

7. Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline - Molefi Kete Asante

8. Revisiting White Privilege: Pedagogy in Black Studies - Tim Davidson and Jeanette R. Davidson

9. Social Science Research in Africana Studies: Ethical Protocols and Guidelines - Serie McDougal III

10. Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment - Leslie M. Alexander and Curtis J. Austin

III. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, SERVICE LEARNING AND ACTIVISM

11. Africana Studies and Community Service: Using the STRENGTH Model - Jeanette R. Davidson and Tim Davidson

12. Africana Studies and Civic Engagement -Kevin L. Brooks

13. Danny Glover and Manning Marable: Activism Through Art and Scholarship - Jeanette R. Davidson

14. Contemporary Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Artistic Expression and Activism - Ebony Iman Dallas, Marie Casimir and Jeanette R. Davidson

IV. SELECTED AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP IN THE DISCIPLINE

15. He Wasn’t Man Enough: Black Male Studies and the Ethnological Targeting of Black Men in Nineteenth-Century Suffragist Thought - Tommy J. Curry

16. Reading Black Through the Looking Glass: Decoding the Encoding in African Diasporic Literature - Georgene Bess Montgomery

17. Diversity and Representations of Blackness in Comic Books - Grace D. Gipson

18. Black Athletes and the Problematic of Integration in Sport - Jamal Ratchford

19. African American Music: The Ties That Bind - Alphonso Simpson Jr.

20. Afrofuturism and the Question of Visual Reparations - Tiffany E. Barber

21. The Black Studies Movement in Britain - Kehinde Andrews

Index

About the author

Jeanette R. Davidson

Professor Jeanette R. (Carlisle) Davidson was born and raised in Scotland. She has a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Strathclyde and an MSSW and PhD in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to beginning her career in the academy, Davidson worked as a social work practitioner and clinician. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. She has published extensively in the areas of African and African American Studies and Social Work and is the editor of African American Studies (Edinburgh University Press, 2010 and 2021). In 2025, she received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the National Council for Black Studies. Jeanette Davidson is Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies and Social Work, University of Oklahoma.