1st Edition

The End of Black Studies Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns

By Clovis E. Semmes Copyright 2017
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Following a history of racial oppression and segregation, Black Americans were able to move in greater numbers into previously all- or predominantly-White colleges and universities. However, they encountered normative structures that excluded or distorted the Black experience and denied Black perspectives. As a result, Black studies grew up reconstructing the humanity of a historically oppressed,... Read more

Introduction: The End of Black Studies: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns



1. The End of Black Studies and the Closing of Oppositional Discourse



2. Minority Status and the Problem of Legitimacy



3. Religion and the Challenge of Afrocentric Thought



4. Existential Sociology or the Sociology of Group Survival , Elevation, and Liberation



5. Foundations in Africana Studies: Revisiting Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976.



6. The Normative Assault on Black Studies



7. Entrepreneur of Health: Dick Gregory, Black Consciousness, and the Human Potential Movement



8. E. Franklin Frazier’s Theory of the Black Family: Vindication and Sociological Insight



Conclusions: Toward the End of Black Studies

Biography

Clovis E. Semmes is Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies at Eastern Michigan University, USA and Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.