Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge

by Scot Brown (Editor)

Overview

Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge is both a reader and an introspective tribute, comprised of writings by James Turner and commentary from several of his former students. The book strives to underscore critical connections between multiple dimensions of Turner’s legacy (as scholar, activist, institution-builder, teacher, and mentor), while also aiming to contribute to the growing historicized literature on the Black Studies movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The contributors to this book hope to influence this early phase in Black/Africana Studies historiography and provide a resource for discourse on the future of the discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937306212
Publisher:	Diasporic Africa Press
Publication date:	02/11/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements / Scot Brown ................................................................ 1
Foreword: Reflections on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James Turner /
Ron Daniels ............................................................................................ 2
Preface / Scot Brown ............................................................................... 7
P A R T I : T O W A R D A F R I C A N A S T U D I E S
From Tradition to Discipline: James Turner and the Making of Africana
Studies / Scot Brown .............................................................................. 13
P A R T I I : B L A C K N A T I O N A L I S M
Introduction: James Turner and the Pedagogical Intensities/Intimacies of
Black Nationalism / Dylan Rodríguez..................................................... 37
2.1 Black Nationalism: The Inevitable Response / James Turner ........... 53
2.2 The Sociology of Black Nationalism / James Turner ........................ 63
2.3 Race, Class, Nationality and Color: The African American Search for
Identity/ Bettye Collier-Thomas and James Turner .................................. 74
P A R T I I I : B L A C K / A F R I C A N A S T U D I E S A S
D I S C I P L I N E
Introduction: Black Intellectual Insurgency-James Turner and the
Discipline of Africana Studies / Jonathan Fenderson .............................. 94
3.1 Black Students: A Changing Perspective / James Turner ................ 111
3.2 Black Studies: A Concept and a Plan / James Turner ..................... 120
3.3 Black Studies and a Black Philosophy of Education / James Turner 132
3.4 Black Studies as Integral Tradition in African-American Intellectual
History / James Turner and C. Steven McGann .................................... 140
3.5 Towards a Critique of Social Science /
James Turner and W. Eric Perkins ........................................................ 154
3.6 Africana Studies and Epistemology: A Discourse in the Sociology of
Knowledge / James Turner .................................................................. 167
P A R T I V : P A N - A F R I C A N I S M A N D
I N T E R N A T I O N A L I S M
Introduction: James Turner and the Practice of Pan-Africanism /
LaTasha B. Levy .................................................................................. 187
4.1 Africa: Conflict in Black and White / James Turner and
Rukudzo Murapa ................................................................................ 199
4.2 Sixth Pan-African Congress 1974: Historical Perspective /
James Turner ....................................................................................... 203
4.3 The Political Economy of American Investment in South Africa /
James Turner ....................................................................................... 213
4.4 Universal Education and Nation-Building in Africa / James Turner
............................................................................................................ 234
P A R T V : T H E P O L I T I C S O F R A C E
Introduction: James Turner and the Sociology of Race /
Anthony P. Browne .............................................................................. 256
5.1 Blacks in the Cities: Land and Self-Determination / James Turner 269
5.2 Implications of Class Conflict and Racial Cleavage for the U.S. Black
Community / James Turner ................................................................ 275
5.3 Inequity in the System: Racism in American Society and on College
Campuses / James Turner .................................................................... 286
5.4 Africana Studies and Critical Race Theory: Fifty Years after Brown /
Kimberlé Crenshaw .............................................................................. 292
Afterword / Scot Brown ........................................................................ 307

Editorial Reviews

"This book will be a must read for courses on Africana Studies as it presents indispensable insight into development of the field (discipline).... Although certainly influenced by Turner's work, his students provide a critical reading and assessment of his theoretical and methodological interventions.... This [is a] distinctly important work for understanding the development and interpretation of Africana Studies and for an appreciation of the scholar and activist, James Turner."

-Robert L. Harris, professor emeritus of African American history, Cornell University


"This book could not have been timelier. As anti-black violence and anti-racist student protests take center stage (again), Africana Studies takes on greater urgency. These powerful and incisive essays not only consider James Turner's extraordinary intellectual legacy but offer reflections on the future of Black Studies and the world. In keeping with Turner's vision and Scot Brown's excellent introduction, Discourse on Africana Studies reminds us that the epistemologies governing Black Studies are always born in struggle."

-Robin D. G. Kelley, author of freedom dreams: the black radical imagination


"This volume is a fitting tribute to a pioneer who is a true long distance runner in the development of the discipline of Africana Studies. It is an impressive work that is a significant contribution to Africana Studies, social movements, intellectual thought and social advocacy."

-Delores P. Aldridge, Founding Director and Grace Towns Hamilton Distinguished Professor
Emerita of Sociology and African American Studies, Emory University.


"This volume is remarkable.... [Discourse on Africana Studies] is a starting point for the serious examination of the possibilities of and remaining challenges to developing the stand-alone discipline of Africana Studies."

-Greg Carr, associate professor & chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, Howard
University

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