African American studies

African American studies (English for Afro -American Studies ) is a branch of Black Studies or Africana studies. It is an interdisciplinary academic field that the study of history, culture and politics dedicated to African-Americans. In broad narrowing it deals not only with the people of African descent in the United States, but also with the companies throughout the African diaspora from the British Isles to the Caribbean. This study will be investigated by scientists of African American literature, history, politics, religion, and religious studies, sociology, and representatives of other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.

History

Intensive scientific efforts to reconstruct the African-American history began at the end of the late 19th century ( WEB Du Bois: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1896). Among the pioneers of the first half of the 20th century include Carter G. Woodson, Herbert Aptheker and Melville J. Herskovits.

Courses and institutions of African American studies were first established in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of inter-ethnic activism of students and faculty, triggered by a five -month strike for Black studies at San Francisco State University. In February 1968, the San Francisco State instructed the sociologist Nathan Hare with the coordination of the first Black studies degree program and the preparation of a proposal for the establishment of the first Institute of Black studies. The Institute was created in September 1968 and received its official status at the end of the five- month strike in the spring of 1969. The introduction of degree programs and institutes of Black studies was a common requirement of protests and sit-ins by a minority of students and their supporters that their culture and interests deemed by the traditional courses and academic structures underrepresented.

Black studies is a systematic way to look at black in the world scientific - as well as their history, culture, sociology and religion. It is an examination of the black experience and the influence of society on them and on their influence in society. This branch of science can serve to displace many racist stereotypes. Black studies analyzing this history, family structures, social and economic pressure, stereotypes and gender roles.

Known representatives of African American studies

  • Reynolds Farley
  • John Hope Franklin
  • E.Franklin Frazier
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Paul Gilroy
  • Nathan Hare
  • Melville Herskovits
  • Bell Hooks
  • Akil Houston
  • Clenora Hudson - Weems
  • Ronald L. Jackson II
  • Charles E. Jones
  • Jawanza Kunjufu
  • Glenn C. Loury
  • Manning Marable
  • Dwight A. McBride
  • Erica Ashley Moberg
  • Leonard N. Moore
  • Pap Ndiaye
  • Mark Anthony Neal
  • Cora Presley
  • Adolph Reed
  • Cedric Robinson
  • Robert B. Stepto
  • Akinyele Umoja
  • Cornel West
  • William Julius Wilson
  • Carter G. Woodson
  • Sylvia Wynter

Humanities and academic journals

  • Negro History Bulletin
  • Journal of Black Studies
  • African American Review
  • Negro Digest
  • Phylon
  • Journal of Negro History
  • The Callaloo Journal
  • Journal of African American History
  • Journal of Negro Education
  • Journal of Pan African Studies
  • Race & Class
  • Transition Magazine
  • Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
  • The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies
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