Women in the Development of Africana Studies

Aldridge, Delores P.

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“…Africana Studies have always existed to advocate for education, dignity, diversity, and a proactive agenda for Black people globally (Aldridge and Young 2003). New ancestry DNA supports this work.…”

Section: The Dna Discussion Projectmentioning

confidence: 70%

Bridging Discussions of Human History: Ancestry DNA and New Roles for Africana Studies

Lawton¹,

Foeman²,

Surdel³

2018

Genealogy

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This paper explores how Africana Studies offer the opportunity for a new worldview that may supplant the assumption that Western history is history. It considers how new knowledge of the human migration bodes for the future of Africana Studies. It has the following research questions: (1) Does new ancestry data reveal or clarify African narratives that may have been missing or suppressed?; (2) What heritage do participants over-or under-predict?; (3) Do participants over-predict indigenous American heritage?; and (4) How is unexpected heritage received? Data from the DNA Discussion Project is used to answer these questions, and implications for bridging discussions of human history using Ancestry DNA are discussed.

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Section: The Dna Discussion Projectmentioning

confidence: 70%

Bridging Discussions of Human History: Ancestry DNA and New Roles for Africana Studies

Lawton¹,

Foeman²,

Surdel³

2018

Genealogy

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“…The contexts and causalities between civil rights and the emergence of Black/African American studies are explored at length by Banks (1996), Aldridge and Young (2000), Gordon andGordon (2006), andRojas (2007). Also invaluable are the anthologies on Black studies (Bobo, Hudley, and Michel 2004) and Africana studies Barrett and Carey 2003;Azevedo 1998).…”

Section: The Era Of Decolonization In Africa and Civil Rights In The ...mentioning

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Building intellectual bridges: from African studies and African American studies to Africana studies in the United States

Železa¹

2011

AFOC

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The study of Africa and its peoples in the United States has a complex history. It has involved the study of both an external and internal other, of social realities in Africa and the condition of people• of African descent in the United States. This paper traces and examines the complex intellectual, institutional, and ideological histories and intersections of African studies and African American studies. It argues that the two fields were founded by African American scholar activists as part of a Pan-African project before their divergence in the historically white universities after World War II in the maelstrom of decolonization in Africa and civil rights struggles in the United States. However, from the late 1980s and 1990s, the two fields began to converge, a process captured in the development of what has been called Africana studies. The factors behind this are attributed to both demographic shifts in American society and the academy including increased African migrations in general and of African academics in particular fleeing structural adjustment programs that devastated African universities, as well as the emergence of new scholarly paradigms especially the field of diaspora studies. The paper concludes with an examination of the likely impact of the Obama era on Africana studies.

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“…The works of Delores P. Aldridge, Darlene Clark Hine, Clenora Hudson-Weems, and others have been crucial to the development of Black women's studies, especially through the 1980s to 2000s (Karenga, 2002). Aldridge (2006) is correct when she states that women perspectives in Black studies (in her case Africana studies) should have a central role in the development of the field. She maintains, It is important that women be placed at the center of the discipline of Africana Studies as in every aspect of life.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The academy has been informed of both the promises and perils faced by Black women in higher education (Benjamin, 1997;Etter-Lewis, 1997). However, as Black women relate to Black studies scholarship, their contribution during the past 20 years has been a powerful testimony to the growth and potential in the field (Aldridge, 2006).…”

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Black Studies in the 21st Century

Christian

2006

Journal of Black Studies

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This article is concerned with the fact that Black studies (or African American studies, Africana studies, Pan-African studies, African Centered studies, Afrocentric studies, Africalogical studies, African and African Diaspora studies—they all basically mean the same thing) continues to have a contested existence in the U.S. academy. However, regardless of the ever-present need to validate itself, this field defies all attempts to silence its voice. The works of Black studies scholars are “here, there, and everywhere” if one cares to take the time to search and sift through the many scholarly contributions. Admittedly, the field is very diverse with numerous schools of thought. Yet rather than viewing this diversity as a problem, it should endorse the fact that Black studies continues to make strides in the academy. This is not to suggest that there are not problems facing its growth and development in the university systems; this article shall highlight a number, but it does make a worthwhile claim against any notion of a decline in the scholarly interest in peoples of African descent, in terms of history, culture, socioeconomics, and politics.

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Women in the Development of Africana Studies

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Bridging Discussions of Human History: Ancestry DNA and New Roles for Africana Studies

Bridging Discussions of Human History: Ancestry DNA and New Roles for Africana Studies

Building intellectual bridges: from African studies and African American studies to Africana studies in the United States

Black Studies in the 21st Century

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