Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies
By (Author) Delores P. Aldridge
Edited by Carlene Young
Contributions by Delores P. Aldridge
Contributions by Russell Adams
Contributions by Makungu M. Akinyela
Contributions by Amiri Yasin Al-Hadid
Contributions by Felix Boateng
Contributions by James H. Bracy
Contributions by Alan Coln
Contributions by James Cone
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
28th June 2003
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Ethnic studies / Ethnicity
305.8960071
Paperback
600
Width 154mm, Height 228mm, Spine 40mm
984g
The introduction of "Black" Studies into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterised the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s America. Out of the Revolution is a collection of writings from thirty-one of America's top academics, providing a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline of Africana Studies.
This timely and critically important collection...should be required reading by all Africana studies departments, administrators, and any other academic unit that wishes to understand this dynamic field and its own relationship to it. -- Diedre L. Badejo, Kent State University
Out of the Revolution will become required reading as a main textbook for survey courses and as a resource for upper-division courses in Africana Studies and Africology. This outstanding bookunique for its treatment of the intersection of race,gender, and classis a major advancement for the field.... -- Anthony J. Lemelle Jr., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Out of the Revolution will become required reading as a main textbook for survey courses and as a resource for upper-division courses in Africana Studies and Africology. This outstanding bookunique for its treatment of the intersection of race, gender, and classis a major advancement for the field. -- Anthony J. Lemelle Jr., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Delores P. Aldridge is Grace Towns Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Emory University. Carlene Young is Professor Emerita of the Afro-American Studies Department at San Jose State University.