Dispatches from the ebony tower : intellectuals confront the African American experience / edited by Manning Marable.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2000], ©2000.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 333 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: black studies and the racial mountain / Manning Marable
- Toward an effective antiracism / Nikhil Pal Singh
- Political moment in Jamaica: the dimensions of hegemonic dissolution / Brian Meeks
- Sandoms and other exotic women: prostitution and race in the Caribbean / Kamala Kempadoo
- Race and revolution in Cuba: African American perspectives / Manning Marable
- Fire this time: Harlem and its discontents at the turn of the century / Johanna Fernandez
- Crack cocaine and Harlem's health / Beverly Xaviera Watkins and Mindy Thompson Fullilove.
- African American studies and the "warring ideals": the color line meets the borderlands / Johnnella E. Butler
- Future of black studies: political communities and the "talented tenth" / Joy James
- Black studies and the question of class / Bill Fletcher
- Black studies: a critical reassessment / Maulana Karenga
- Black studies revisited / Martin Kilson
- Theorizing black studies: the continuing role of community service in the study of race and class / James Jennings
- Debate on activism in black studies / Henry Louis Gates and Manning Marable.
- Afrocentricity, race, and reason / Molefi Kete Asante
- Afrocentrics, afro-elitists, and afro-eccentrics: the polarization of black studies since the student struggles of the sixties / Melba Joyce Boyd
- Reclaiming culture: the dialectics of identity / Leith Mullings
- Afrocentrism, cultural nationalism, and the problem with essentialist definitions of race, gender, and sexuality / Barbara Ransby
- Afrocentricity and the American dream / Lee D. Baker
- Multinational, multicultural America versus white supremacy / Amiri Baraka.
- Problematics of ethnic studies / Manning Marable
- Prophetic alternatives: a conversation with Cornel West
- Race in American life: a conversation with John Hope Franklin.