Introduces key terms, interdisciplinary research, debates, and histories for African American Studies

As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for the first time, exploring not only the history of those categories but their continued relevance in the contemporary moment. Taking up a vast array of issues such as slavery, colonialism, prison expansion, sexuality, gender, feminism, war, and popular culture, Keywords for African American Studies showcases the startling breadth that characterizes the field.

Featuring an august group of contributors across the social sciences and the humanities, the keywords assembled within the pages of this volume exemplify the depth and range of scholarly inquiry into Black life in the United States. Connecting lineages of Black knowledge production to contemporary considerations of race, gender, class, and sexuality, Keywords for African American Studies provides a model for how the scholarship of the field can meet the challenges of our social world.

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Publisher

NYU Press

Year

2018

Print ISBN

9781479854899

eBook ISBN

9781479888535

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

African American History

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
1. Abolition
2. Apartheid
3. Black Arts Movement
4. Black Freedom Movement
5. Blackness
6. Body
7. Cinema
8. City
9. Civil Rights
10. Coalition
11. Colonialism
12. Criminal
13. Diaspora
14. Diversity
15. Double-Consciousness
16. Empire
17. Family
18. Feminism
19. Gender
20. Hip-Hop
21. Incarceration
22. Intersectionality
23. Jazz
24. Linked Fate
25. Mixed Race
26. Nadir
27. Nationalism
28. New Negro Renaissance
29. Pan-Africanism
30. Passing
31. Performance
32. Philosophy
33. Poetics
34. Police
35. Popular
36. Post-Race
37. Race
38. Reconstruction
39. Refugee
40. Religion
41. Riot
42. Rock
43. Science
44. Segregation
45. Sexuality
46. Slavery
47. Soul
48. Transnationalism
49. University
50. War
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
About the Contributors

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Yes, you can access Keywords for African American Studies by Erica R. Edwards,Roderick A. Ferguson,Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Erica R. Edwards, Roderick A. Ferguson, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & African American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.