Author: Mark W. DeLanceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
African Politics at American Universities and Colleges
Author: Mark W. DeLanceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
African Politics at American Universities and Colleges
Author: Mark DelanceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
African Politics at American Universities and Colleges
Author: Mark W. DeLanceyAfrican American Political Thought
Author: Melvin L. RogersPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672607X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression. The collected essays consider such figures as Martin Delany, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, whose works are addressed by scholars such as Farah Jasmin Griffin, Robert Gooding-Williams, Michael Dawson, Nick Bromell, Neil Roberts, and Lawrie Balfour. While African American political thought is inextricable from the historical movement of American political thought, this volume stresses the individuality of Black thinkers, the transnational and diasporic consciousness, and how individual speakers and writers draw on various traditions simultaneously to broaden our conception of African American political ideas. This landmark volume gives us the opportunity to tap into the myriad and nuanced political theories central to Black life. In doing so, African American Political Thought: A Collected History transforms how we understand the past and future of political thinking in the West.
Teaching African Politics at American Universities
Author: Henry C. KenskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Black Studies and the Democratization of American Higher Education
Author: Charles P. HenryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319350897
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book aims to expand what scholars know and who is included in this discussion about black studies, which aids in the democratization of American higher education and the deconstruction of traditional disciplines of high education, to facilitate a sense of social justice. By challenging traditional disciplines, black studies reveals not only the political role of American universities but also the political aspects of the disciplines that constitute their core. While black studies is post-modern in its deconstruction of positivism and universalism, it does not support a radical rejection of all attempts to determine truth. Evolving from a form of black cultural nationalism, it challenges the perceived white cultural nationalist norm and has become a critical multiculturalism that is more global and less gendered. Henry argues for the inclusion of black studies beyond the curriculum of colleges and universities.
The Politics of African-American Education
Author: Kenneth J. MeierPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107105269
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The book provides a comprehensive assessment of current African-American education policy and its politics.
Black Colleges Across the Diaspora
Author: M. Christopher Brown IIPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 178714903X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book examines colleges and universities across the diaspora with majority African, African-American, and other Black designated student enrolments. It engages the diversity of Black colleges and universities and explains their critical role in promoting academic excellence in higher education.
Blackballed
Author: Lawrence RossPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125007911X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial politics on campus. Does this association disturb our idealized visions of what happens behind the ivied walls of higher learning? It should-because campus racism on college campuses is as American as college football on Fall Saturdays. From Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine and the leading expert on sororities and fraternities, Blackballed is an explosive and controversial book that rips the veil off America's hidden secret: America's colleges have fostered a racist environment that makes them a hostile space for African American students. Blackballed exposes the white fraternity and sorority system, with traditions of racist parties, songs, and assaults on black students; and the universities themselves, who name campus buildings after racist men and women. It also takes a deep dive into anti-affirmative action policies, and how they effectively segregate predominately white universities, providing ample room for white privilege. A bold mix of history and the current climate, Blackballed is a call to action for universities to make radical changes to their policies and standards to foster a better legacy for all students.
Ebony Towers in Higher Education
Author: Ronyelle Bertrand RicardPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000978869
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
What is the purpose of black colleges? Why do black colleges continue to exist? Are black colleges necessary?Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are at the same time the least studied and the least understood institutions of higher education and the most maligned and the most endangered.This unique study examines the mission of four-year HBCUs from the perspective of the campus president, as a foundation for understanding the relevance and role of these institutions. This is the first research to focus on the role of presidents of black colleges; is based on extensive interviews with fifteen presidents; and takes into particular account the type of campus environments in which they operate.Unlike community colleges, women’s colleges, men’s colleges, and Hispanic-serving colleges, Black colleges are racially identifiable institutions. They also vary significantly in, among other characteristics: size, control (public or private), religious affiliation, gender composition, and available resources. Although united in the historic mission of educating African Americans, each black college or university has its own identity and set of educational objectives. The book examines how presidents define and implement mission in the context of their campuses, view the challenges they face, and confront the factors that promote or hinder implementation of their missions.