What is African American Studies?

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Special Issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy:

What Is African American Studies,Its Focus, and Future?

Edited by John H.
McClendon III and Yusuf Nuruddin


Preface

Introduction by John H. McClendon III

Articles

John H.
Bracey, Jr., Black Studies in the Age of Obama
De Anna Reese and Malik Simba,Historiography against History: The
Propaganda of History and the Struggle for the Hearts and Minds of Black Folk
Stephen Ferguson, The Utopian Worldview of Afrocentricity: Critical
Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy
John
H. McClendon III,Materialist
Philosophical Inquiry and African American Studies

Yusuf Nuruddin, Africana
Studies: Which Way Forward – Marxism or Afrocentricity? Neither Mechanical
Marxism nor Atavistic Afrocentrism
Reiland
Rabaka, Revolutionary Fanonism: On Frantz Fanon’s Modification
of Marxism and Decolonization of Democratic Socialism

Rose M. Brewer,
Black Women’s Studies: From Theory to Transformative Practice
Rod Bush, Africana Studies and the Decolonization of the
U.S. Empire in the 21st Century
Greg Carr,What Black
Studies Is Not: Moving from Crisis to Liberation in Africana Intellectual Work
Anthony
Monteiro, The Epistemic Crisis of African American Studies: A Du
Boisian Resolution
Carter Wilson, The Dominant Class and the Construction of Racial
Oppression: A Neo-Marxist/Gramscian Approach to Race in the United States
Charles
Pinderhughes, Toward a New Theory of Internal Colonialism


Review Essays

Robeson Taj P. Frazier, Afro-Asia
and Cold War Black Radicalism

Charles L. Lumpkins,Rediscovering Hubert
Harrison: Revolutionary Socialism and Anti-White Supremacy for 21st-Century
Americans

Gerald Meyer, James
Baldwin’s Harlem: The Key to His Politics

Book
Reviews

Michelle
Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
reviewed by Lenore Daniels

Safiya Bukhari, THE WAR
BEFORE: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in
Prison, and Fighting for Those Left
Behind
reviewed by
David Gilbert