Full Description
A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies programmes are taught at more than 1,300 universities worldwide. This book is the first history of how that happened.
Black Studies founder and movement veteran Abdul Alkalimat offers a comprehensive history of the discipline that will become a key reference for generations to come. Structured in three broadly chronological sections - Black Studies as intellectual history; as social movement; and as academic profession - the book demonstrates how Black people themselves established the field long before its institutionalisation in university programmes.
At its heart, Black Studies is profoundly political. Black Power, the New Communist Movement, the Black women's and students' movements - each step in the journey for Black liberation influenced and was influenced by this revolutionary discipline.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
PART I: BLACK STUDIES AS INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
1. The Academic Disciplines
2. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities
3. The Political Culture of the Black Community
PART II: BLACK STUDIES AS SOCIAL MOVEMENT
4. The Freedom Movement
5. The Black Power Movement
6. The Black Arts Movement
7. The New Communist Movement
8. The Black Women's Movement
9. The Black Student Movement
PART III: BLACK STUDIES AS ACADEMIC PROFESSION
10. Disrupting
11. Building Consensus
12. Building Institutions
13. Establishing the Profession
14. Theorizing
15. Norming Research
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
