Africana Cultures And Policy Studies

Author : Z. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230622097
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africana Cultures and Policy Studies written by Z. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces Africana Cultures and Policy Studies as an interdisciplinary field of study, rooted in the historical experience of people of African descent and focusing on policy development, anlaysis, and practical application.

Author : Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956792152
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Cultures, Memory and Space written by Munyaradzi Mawere and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational text to the study of culture in ever-changing environments, makes an important argument that the dynamism of culture in highly globalised societies such as that of Zimbabwe can be studied from any perspective, but most importantly through careful examination of cultural elements such as memory, oral history and space, among others. While the book makes special reference to Zimbabwe, it profoundly and audaciously dissect and cut across different geographical and cultural spaces through its penetrating interrogation and scrutiny of different issues commonplace in many African contexts and even beyond. The book, written by scholars from different backgrounds and orientations, should appeal to scholars, researchers and students from various disciplines which include but not limited to Cultural Heritage Studies, Policy Studies, Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies and African Studies.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134674473
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Culture and Global Politics written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics. Despite the underwhelming amount of attention given to Africa's role in international politics in popular news sources, it is evident that Africa has a consistent record of participating in world politics- one that pre-dates colonization and continues today. In continuance of this legacy of active participation in global political exchanges, Africans today can be heard in dialogues that span the world and their roles are impossible to replace by other entities. It is evident that a vastly different Africa exists than ones that bolster images of starvation, corruption, and compliance. The essays in this volume center on Africa and Africans participating in international political discourses, but with an emphasis on various forms of expression and philosophies, as these factors heavily influence Africa's role as a participant in global politics. The reader will find a variety of essays that permeate surface discussions of politics and political activism by inserting African culture, rhetoric, philosophies into the larger discussion of international politics and Africa's role in worldwide political, social, and economic debates.

Author : James L. Conyers
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412806602
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Culture and Africana Studies written by James L. Conyers and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher C. Mojekwu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Society, Culture, and Politics written by Christopher C. Mojekwu and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James L. Conyers, Jr.
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412847990
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Consciousness written by James L. Conyers, Jr. and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Consciousness focuses on ideas of culture, race, and class within the interdisciplinary matrix of Africana Studies. Even more important, it uses a methodology that emphasizes interpretation and the necessity of interdisciplinary research and writing in a global society. Worldview, culture, analytic thinking, and historiography can all be used as tools of analysis, and in the process of discovery, use pedagogy, and survey research of Africana history. Advancing the idea of Africana Studies, mixed methodology, and triangulation, the contributors provide alternative approaches toward examining this phenomena, with regard to place, space, and time. The essays in this volume include Reynaldo Anderson, “Black History dot.com”; Greg Carr, “Black Consciousness, Pan-Africanism and the African World History Project”; Karanja Carroll, “A Genealogical Review of the Worldview Concept and Framework in Africana Studies”; Denise Martin, “Reflections on African Celestial Culture”; Serie McDougal “Teaching Black Males”; Demetrius Pearson, “Cowboys of Color”; Pamela Reed, “Heirs to Disparity”; and Andrew Smallwood, “Malcolm X’s Leadership and Legacy.” The researchers in this volume investigate, explore, and review patterns of functional, normative, and expressive behavior. The past and present of Africana culture is represented, showing how reflexivity can be an adjustable concept to organize, process, and interpret data. Moreover, humanism and social science demonstrate how researchers establish, extract, and identify the limitations and alternative approaches to research of the historic conditions of black Americans.

Author : John Karefah Marah
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781465275226
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africana Studies written by John Karefah Marah and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...reflects a wide variety of topics regarding Africana Studies and addresses how Africana studies are affected by a changing global "village." The readings contribute a critical study of African people from many different points of view, each important in their own right. Resulting from a collaborative effort at 39th Annual Conference of the New York African Studies Association (NYASA), selected readings ... were judged by: criticality, substance, pertinence, eclecticism, and transformative conceptualizations... [I]ncludes: various points of view, from college administrators to social scientists to the general student population ; Shows the evolution of Africana Studies from various backgrounds and terms ; Questions the nature of Africana Studies in modern times amongst modern issues."-- Publisher

Author : Alfred B. Zack-Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135196044X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial written by Alfred B. Zack-Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within its historic and socio-political background: from the 1960s, the decade of independence, through to its development outlook as the new millennium unfolds. It examines a broad range of contemporary issues -- from development and culture to linguistics and is unique in identifying and examining issues that are common both to Africa and the diaspora.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580461399
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of African Cultures written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ties between culture and every aspect of African life, using Africa's past to explain present situations.

Author : Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025303017X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa written by Tejumola Olaniyan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the state-culture dynamic, senior scholars and emerging voices examine the intersections of the state, culture, and politics in postcolonial Africa in this lively and wide-ranging volume. The coverage here is continental and topics include literature, politics, philosophy, music, religion, theatre, film, television, sports, child trafficking, journalism, city planning, and architecture. Together, the essays provide an energetic and nuanced portrait of the cultural forms of politics and the political forms of culture in contemporary Africa.