• DOI:10.4324/9780203491348-3
• Corpus ID: 211644148

the intellectual and institutional development of africana studies

@inproceedings{Harris2004theIA,
  title={the intellectual and institutional development of africana studies},
  author={Robert Lee Harris},
  year={2004}
}

• R. Harris
• Published 15 May 2004
• Political Science

AFRICANA STUDIES IS THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS of the lives and thought of people of African ancestry on the African continent and throughout the world. It embraces Africa, Afro-America, and the Caribbean, but does not confine itself to those three geo-graphical areas. Africana studies examines people of African ancestry wherever they may be found—for example, in Central and South America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Its primary means of organization are racial and cultural. Many of the themes of Africana studies are derived from the historical position of African peoples in relation to Western societies and in the dynamics of slavery, oppression, colonization, imperialism, emancipa-tion, self-determination, liberation, and socioeconomic and political development. There in to learn what he or she feels freedom to be. What is instructive is how often the students have to be convinced that what they think matters. 15 seen as a sign of the times, a tribute to effectiveness of the young field of Black Studies. a sharp reminder the of the traditional view re-mains and continues to be dominant outside Black Studies.”