Law Culture and Africana Studies

Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind. Much of what we have studied in African history and culture or literature and linguistics or politics and economics has been orchestrated from the standpoint of Europe's interests. Whether it is a matter of economics history politics geographical concepts or art Africans have been seen as peripheral. This volume reviews the past in order to evaluate the present and move ahead with appropriate policies for the future. The authors focus on issues of affirmative action legal culture theories of black culture and methodologies of scholarly work in Africana studies.Contents include: Cecil Blake The Culture Nexus Construct in Africana Studies Ronald Turner On Palatable Palliative and Paralytic Affirmative Action Grutter-Style Winston A. Van Horne Three Concepts of Legitimacy Robert E. Weems Jr. Africana Studies and the Quest for Black Economic Empowerment: What Can be Done Ula Y. Taylor Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam: Separatism Regendering and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X Lewis R. Gordon Must Revolutionaries Sing the Blues? Thinking through Fanon and the Leitmotif of the Black Arts Movement Delores P. Aldridge Race Gender and Africana Theorizing and James L. Conyers Biography and Africology: Method and Interpretation. The volume concludes with reviews of significant recent scholarship on black history and culture.Law Culture and Africana Studies will have particular interest for scholars in the fields of American and European studies cultural studies history sociology and specialists in African-American studies.