African American Academic Discipline Studies
The Origin, Development, and Purpose of
Africana Studies as an Academic Discipline
Thesis
African American Studies is a change agent for the ideology of Black Americans. Black studies as an academic discipline serves to reorient the perspective of African Americans in an effort to regain a sense of pride and cultural identity stolen by white society.
Abstract
Ever since the Europeans forcefully brought Africans west, black people have struggled with a loss of their true culture and identity. The vulnerability of a displaced and victimized race subjected them to view conformity and assimilation as a panacea for racism, discrimination, and oppression. It wasn't until the 1960s that students began to realize and protest the traditional methods of higher learning where the curriculum was taught through the White perspective without the acknowledgment of contributions black people have made to society. Through rallies and organizations, it was made clear that something had to be done about the stolen ideologies of African Americans being replaced with an outlook from the European perspective. African American Studies is a change agent for the ideology of Black Americans. Black studies as an academic discipline serves to reorient the perspective of African Americans in an effort to regain a sense of pride and cultural identity stolen by white society.
Critical Review of Scholarship
I will be referring to multiple articles and in-class discussions to explain the origin, development and purpose of African American/Black/Africana Studies. The names for the courses and departments: African American Studies, Black Studies, and Africana Studies, will be used interchangeably. James Stewart’s and Talmadge Anderson’s article, “Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications” will aid me in talking about the history and development of Black Studies while also providing the definition of “Black Power.” I will also be
Africana Studies as an Academic Discipline
Thesis
African American Studies is a change agent for the ideology of Black Americans. Black studies as an academic discipline serves to reorient the perspective of African Americans in an effort to regain a sense of pride and cultural identity stolen by white society.
Abstract
Ever since the Europeans forcefully brought Africans west, black people have struggled with a loss of their true culture and identity. The vulnerability of a displaced and victimized race subjected them to view conformity and assimilation as a panacea for racism, discrimination, and oppression. It wasn't until the 1960s that students began to realize and protest the traditional methods of higher learning where the curriculum was taught through the White perspective without the acknowledgment of contributions black people have made to society. Through rallies and organizations, it was made clear that something had to be done about the stolen ideologies of African Americans being replaced with an outlook from the European perspective. African American Studies is a change agent for the ideology of Black Americans. Black studies as an academic discipline serves to reorient the perspective of African Americans in an effort to regain a sense of pride and cultural identity stolen by white society.
Critical Review of Scholarship
I will be referring to multiple articles and in-class discussions to explain the origin, development and purpose of African American/Black/Africana Studies. The names for the courses and departments: African American Studies, Black Studies, and Africana Studies, will be used interchangeably. James Stewart’s and Talmadge Anderson’s article, “Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications” will aid me in talking about the history and development of Black Studies while also providing the definition of “Black Power.” I will also be