Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought - Softcover

Reed, Adolph

 
9781594516665: Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1594516669 ISBN 13: 9781594516665
Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Reflecting critically on the discipline of African American studies is a complicated undertaking. Making sense of the black American experience requires situating it within the larger cultural, political-economic, and ideological dynamics that shape American life. This volume moves away from privileging racial commonality as the fulcrum of inquiry and moves toward observing the quality of the accounts scholars have rendered of black American life. This book maps the changing conditions of black political practice and experience from Emancipation to Obama with excursions into the Jim Crow era, Black Power radicalism, and the Reagan revolt. Here are essays, classic and new, that define historically and conceptually discrete problems affecting black Americans as these problems have been shaped by both politics and scholarly fashion. A key goal of the book is to come to terms with the changing terrain of American life in view of major Civil Rights court decisions and legislation.

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Reed, Adolph; Warren, Kenneth W.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1594516669
ISBN 13 
9781594516665
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
336

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