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Black Studies Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415945542

ISBN-13: 9780415945547

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jacqueline Bobo, Cynthia Hudley, Claudine Michel

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Bringing together work from a range of noted contributors, the 'Black Studies Reader' examines the history and future of this multi-faceted academic field. Topics covered include black feminism, cultural politics, black activism, lesbian and gay issues, literature and film, education, and religion.
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Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is editor of the anthology, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism: Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, January 2001) and of Black Women Film and Video Artists (Routledge, 1998).

Introduction
Theorizing Black Studies
Evolution of Consciousness
The Intellectual and Institutional Development of Africana Studies
Black Studies in Liberal Arts Education
Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class
How the West Was One: On the Uses and Limitations of Diaspora
Black Feminism: Acts of Resistance
Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke
Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
Ella Baker and the Origins of Participatory Democracy
Black Women and the Academy
Representing Black Men
How Deep, How Wide? Perspectives on the Making of The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Military Rites and Wrongs: African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces
Justifiable Homicide, Police Brutality, or Governmental Repression? The 1962 Los Angeles Shooting of Seven Members of the Nation of Islam
Some Glances at the Black Fag: Race, Same-Sex Desire, and Cultural Belonging
Conceptualizing Culture and Ideology
Text Creation and Representation
Black Women as Cultural Readers
Black Talk Radio: Defining Community Needs and Identity
Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility
Dread Path/Lock Spirit
Interrogating Cultural Expressions
In the Year 1915: D.W. Griffith and the Whitening of America
What is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture
Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference
African Signs and Spirit Writing
Sexuality, Education, Religion
Autonomy, Subjectivity, Sexuality
Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
Black Bodies/Gay Bodies: The Politics of Race in the Gay/Military Battle
Hormones and Melanin: The Dimensions of Race, Sex and Gender in Africology: Reflective Journeys
Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism, Sexuality, and the Problem of Authority
Education: Pedagogy, Practice
Home-School Partnership Through the Eyes of Parents
Desegregation Experiences of Minority Students: Adolescent Coping Strategies in Five Connecticut High Schools
Racial Socialization Strategies of Parents in Three Black Private Schools
Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom
Religion in Black Life
Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation
Black Theology and the Black Woman
Teaching Haitian Vodou
Islam in the African-American Experience