New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of Critical African-American Studies

by Manning Marable, Adina Popescu, Khary Jones, Patricia Lespinasse

Overview

Against a backdrop of multiculturalism and Afrocentricity in the intellectual traditions of African-American studies, this book sets new standards and directions for the future. It is the first book to systematically address the many themes that have changed the political and social landscape for African-Americans. Among these changes are new transnational processes of globalization, the devastating impact of neoliberal public policies upon urban minority communities, increasing imprisonment and attendant loss of voting rights especially among black males, the surging of Hispanic population, and widening class differences as deindustrialization, crack cocaine, and gentrification entered urban communities. Marable and a cast of influential contributors suggest that a new beginning is needed for African-American scholarship. They explain why Black Studies needs to break its conceptual and thematic limitations, exploring "blackness" in new ways and in different geographic sites. They outline the major intersectionalities that should shape a new Black Studies-the complex relationships between race, gender, sexuality, class and youth. They argue that African-American Studies scholarship must help shape and redirect public policies that affect black communities, working with government, foundations and other private institutions on such issues as housing, health care, and criminal justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317255505
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Professor of Public Affairs, History, and Mrican-American Studies Director, Center for Contemporary Black History Columbia University

Table of Contents

Part I Remapping the Black Experience; Chapter 1 Rethinking Black Studies; Living Black History: Resurrecting the African-American Intellectual Tradition, Manning Marable; Teaching Race and Racism in the Twenty-First Century: Thematic Considerations, Howard Winant; Chapter 2 Reinterpreting the Past: The New Black History; The Nature of African-American History, Herbert Aptheker; Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie; Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution, Robin D. G. Kelley, Esch Betsy; Chapter 3 Home to Harlem: Yesterday and Today; Losing Ground: Harlem, the War on Drugs, and the Prison Industrial Complex, Leith Mullings; Toward an Ethnography of a Quotation-Marked-Off Place, John L. JacksonJr; Part II Old Constructs, New Contexts; Chapter 4 The New Racial Domain; “Good at the Game of Tricknology”: Proposition 209 and the Struggle for the Historical Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, George Derek Musgrove; Notes on a National Report, Nikhil Singh; Chapter eap Talk, er, Dialogue, Gary Y. Okihiro; Chapter 5 Black Feminist Studies: The New Politics of Gender; Black Feminism and the Challenge of Black Heterosexual Male Desire, Michael Awkward; Establishing Black Feminism, Barbara Smith; Working It Off: Welfare Reform, Workfare, and Work Experience Programs in New York City, Davis Dana-Ain, Aparicio Ana, Jacobs Audrey, Kochiyama Akemi, Mullings Leith, Queeley Andrea, Thompson Beverly; “It’s Not Right but Its Okay”: Black Women’s R & B and the House That Terry McMillan Built, Daphne A. Brooks; Chapter 6 The Hip-Hop Nation: Black Youth Culture Today; Hip-Hop and the Aesthetics of Criminalization, Andrea Queeley; From Elvis to Eminem: Play That Funky Music, White Boy!, Todd Boyd; Part III Beyond Traditional Boundaries; Chapter 7 Beyond Black and White: Redefining Racialized Identities; Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry, Lee D. Baker; The Politics of Studying Whiteness, Noel Ignatiev; The Political Economy of Whiteness Studies, Eric Klinenberg; Defending Critical Studies of Whiteness but Not Whiteness Studies, David Roediger; The Difference between Whiteness and Whites, John HartiganJr; Brilliance without Passion: Whiteness Scholarship and the Struggle against Racism, Tim Wise; Whiteness: A Mixed Bag, Karen Brodkin; Chapter 8 Transnational Blackness: Africa and the African Diaspora, Asia, and Globalization; The Continuity Of Struggle: An Interview, Assata Shakur; The New South Africa and the Process of Transformation, Bill FletcherJr; Globalized Punishment, Localized Resistance: Prisons, Neoliberalism, and Empire, Julia Sudbury; Let Us Be Moors: Islam, Race and “Connected Histories”, Hishaam D. Aidi; Chapter 9 The Responsibility of the Critical Black Studies Scholar Eight Lessons from the Black Front: A Primer, Farah Jasmine Griffin Aftermath, Hazel V. Carby And the Beat Goes On: Challenges Facing Black Intellectuals, Kathleen Neal Cleaver A Scholar in Struggle, Clayborne Carson;