A Companion to African-American Studies (Repost)

A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry.Content: Chapter 1 On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story (pages 3–19): Houston A. BakerChapter 2 Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline (pages 20–32): Molefi Kete AsanteChapter 3 Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro?American Studies at Brown University, 1969–1986 (pages 33–50): Rhett JonesChapter 4 Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View (pages 51–58): Charlotte Morgan?CatoChapter 5 From the Birth to a Mature Afro?American Studies at Harvard, 1969–2002 (pages 59–75): Martin KilsonChapter 6 Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action (pages 76–95): Johnnella E. ButlerChapter 7 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies (pages 96–101): Henry Louis Gates and Manning MarableChapter 8 Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African?American Studies (pages 102–106): Herman BeaversChapter 9 On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project (pages 107–118): Sylvia WynterChapter 10 The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace (pages 119–135): Hazel V. CarbyChapter 11 Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception (pages 136–141): Nell Irvin PainterChapter 12 Autobiography of an Ex?White Man (pages 142–167): Robert Paul WolffChapter 13 Homage to Mistress Wheatley (pages 171–191): Rowan Ricardo PhillipsChapter 14 Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child as a Model for Black Studies (pages 192–208): Joyce Ann JoyceChapter 15 Jazz Consciousness (pages 209–222): Paul AusterlitzChapter 16 Afro?American Studies and the Rise of African?American Philosophy (pages 223–245): Paget HenryChapter 17 Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience (pages 246–264): Tukufu ZuberiChapter 18 Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics (pages 265–278): Alvin Poussaint and Amy AlexanderChapter 19 Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social Scientific Method by the Study of Race (pages 279–304): Jane Anna GordonChapter 20 African?American Queer Studies (pages 305–329): David Ross FryerChapter 21 Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law (pages 330–359): Clevis HeadleyChapter 22 Unthinkable History? The Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery (pages 360–376): Sibylle FischerChapter 23 Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African?American Studies to Modernity (pages 377–399): Stefan M. WheelockChapter 24 An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African?American History (pages 400–416): Peniel E. JosephChapter 25 Reflections on African?American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom (pages 417–434): B. Anthony BoguesChapter 26 Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age (pages 435–452): Floyd W. HayesChapter 27 From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts (pages 453–475): Charles FinchChapter 28 Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion (pages 476–493): William D. HartChapter 29 Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity (pages 494–511): Eddie S. GlaudeChapter 30 Locating Afro?American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity (pages 512–542): Walter IsaacChapter 31 Playing with the Dark: Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations (pages 543–567): Claudia M. Milian AriasChapter 32 Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries (pages 568–589): Anani DzidzienyoChapter 33 Africana Thought and African?Diasporic Studies (pages 590–598): Lewis R. Gordon