1st Edition

Law, Culture, and Africana Studies

By Jr. Conyers Copyright 2008
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa, African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind. Much of what we have studied in African history and culture, or literature and linguistics, or politics and economics, has been orchestrated from the standpoint of Europe's interests. Whether it is a matter of economics, history, politics,... Read more
1: Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam: Separatism, Regendering, and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X (1965-975); 2: Biography and Africology: Method and Interpretation; 3: Africana Studies and the Quest for Black Economic Empowerment: What Can Be Done?; 4: Three Concepts of Legitimacy; 5: The Culture Nexus Construct in Africana Studies; 6: Race, Gender, and Africana Theorizing; 7: Must Revolutionaries Sing the Blues?: Thinking through Fanon and the Leitmotif of the Black Arts Movement; 8: On Palatable, Palliative, and Paralytic Affirmative Action, Grutter -Style

Biography

Jr. Conyers