Dispatches from the ebony tower : intellectuals confront the African American experience / edited by Manning Marable.

Other author Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxv, 333 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
African Americans--Study and teaching (Higher).
Black people--Study and teaching (Higher).
United States--Race relations. --Study and teaching (Higher).
United States--Ethnic relations. --Study and teaching (Higher).

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.
Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Contents Problematics of ethnic studies / Manning Marable -- Prophetic alternatives: a conversation with Cornel West -- Race in American life: a conversation with John Hope Franklin.
Local noteLittle-322559--305131027586+
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99055525
ISBN0231114761 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN023111477X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E184.7 .D57 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold