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Africana Studies |
Multidisciplinary analysis of the lives and thought of people of african ancestry on the african continent and throughout the world |
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The Intellectual and Institutional Development of Africana Studies |
R.L. Harris Jr. |
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Four Stages in the Intellectual and Institutional Development |
- Stage 1: begins in 1890's through WWII -Stage 2: |
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Stage One includes: |
Orgs emerged to document, record and alayze the history,culture and status of African people |
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Carter G Woodson |
Established the groundwork for ASALH- Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History |
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W.E.B DuBois |
-initiates program in Atlanta U. to examine A.A life in ten year cycles -proposes that such studies should continue to provide knowledge and understanding of Black family,church, social orgs,education and economic development in the U.S |
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Stage 2 |
publication of work from Gunnar Myrdal: there is conflict when blacks interact and they don't practice their African roots, no fundamental identity |
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Burgess and Post WWII whites |
Burgess:Implies that Africans had never created anything of worth and therefore A.A were descended from an inferior people White Scholars: blacks became inferior over time due to societal deficiencies causing accumulated pathological behavior, and not because of race or lack of opportunity |
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-From Mid 1960 to Mid 1980 the search for documentation of black history and culture uprises, beginning an era of Black News papers and archives of black leaders, writers and scholars - perspective of US changes from assimilation to acculturation |
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James Jeggings |
- Theorizing Black Studies- Role of Community Service in Study of Race and Class -believes that community service and civic involvement helps with the understanding and praxis of a culture |
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Praxis |
implies that theoretical understandings of Black life experiences in society should be informed by blacks in ongoing political economic and educations struggles aimed to expand racial and economic democracy |
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Importance of Community Service- |
Civic service aids as a form of research tool and expansion of a race away from beliefs of slavery and oppression |
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Booker T. Washington |
decided to pursue education with purpose of coming back to his community with skills that would help uplift Blacks (in the south) |
