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Booker T. Washington gave his famous Atlanta speech 121 years ago (September 18, 1895). What are some of most important, revealing, interesting pieces by Washington beyond the Atlanta Expo speech and his most famous autobiography Up From Slavery?
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After starting the course it has become clear to me that our students NEED at least a basic understanding of African American history in order to fully appreciate Dr. Karenga's Introduction to Black Studies. So, I'm adding Darlene Clark Hine's The African American Odyssey (combined volume) to my reading list. We really have to do a much better job in the k-12 arena as far as African American history is concerned. Having taught African American history for 30 years in k-12 and developing African American curriculum I was quickly disabused of the idea that others were teaching it as well.
An increasing number of colleges and universities throughout the country are becoming locations were guns can either be concealed or carried openly on campus.
As scholars who teach about race, African American studies and other intersecting areas of inquiry, what are your thoughts about the trend of campus carry?
What are you doing if your college or university is currently, or is soon to become, a space where students, faculty and staff can carry weapons?
What are your fears?
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The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) recently hosted an online roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy (University of Illinois Press, 2016). On Monday (Sept. 5), Keisha N.
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Thanks for all the responses, especially yours Dr. Karenga. I've decided to go with your text. It was a toss up between your book and the Anderson & Stewart Intro. I'm designing the course as a "classical" Black Studies Course. Both of the texts I considered as finalists, yours and Anderson/Stewart, do an excellent job contextualizing the "discipline." I want my students to have a solid foundation in understanding the methodology and approach to the discipline. Where I'm teaching does not have a concentration in Black Studies any longer.
Thanks for all the responses, especially yours Dr. Karenga. I've decided to go with your text. It was a toss up between your book and the Anderson & Stewart Intro. I'm designing the course as a "classical" Black Studies Course. Both of the texts I considered as finalists, yours and Anderson/Stewart, do an excellent job contextualizing the "discipline." I want my students to have a solid foundation in understanding the methodology and approach to the discipline. Where I'm teaching does not have a concentration in Black Studies any longer.
The companion volumes to Hine's textbook is the two volume documentary history, African American Mosaic edited by John Bracey and me. The first goes until Reconstruction and the second Reconstruction to the twenty first century. I have used the first volume with a lot of success in my class. Manisha Sinha
Ino addition to the aforementioned works, I would suggest the following textbooks:
-Nathaniel Norment's the African American Studies Reader, Second Edition
- Talmadge Anderson and James Stewart's Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications
- Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young's Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies
- Though not a textbook, the March 2012 Journal of African American Studies.
With due modesty, I would like to suggest one of the most widely used introductory texts, Maulana Karenga's Introduction to Black Studies. It is comprehensive, beginning with a history of the discipline and latest developments and continuing with treatment of seven critical areas of Black Studies: history, religion, sociology, politics, economics, creative production (art, music, literature), and psychology. It concludes with engagement with some critical current issues.
In the past I have used The African American Odyssey by Darlene Clark Hine. It is constantly being updated with current events in African American history (current it is in its 6th edition) and at the end of each chapter is a bibliography for further reading. I found it to be an invaluable resource and I often refer back to it.
I really like Hine's African American Odyssey. It also comes in an abbreviated, paperback version called The African Americans. Finally, Joe Trotter's African American Experience is terrific, but it's a bit dense for lower level undergrads.
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Please find the cfp for the 2017 MELUS Annual Conference at MIT on our website: http://www.melus.org/conferences/
The deadline for session and paper proposals for the 2017 annual conference of LAWCHA (Labor and Working-Class History Association) has been extended to October 15, 2016. The program committee will notify people by December 15 about whether proposals have been accepted.
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the second edition of the Harriet Tubman Prize, which will be awarded to a distinguished nonfiction book published in the United States on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. The prize of $7,500 will be presented at the Schomburg Center in December 2017. Books must have been published between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016.
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