LEADER 04131nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910815995403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-50794-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000523155 035 $a(OCoLC)243615903 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10183522 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278752 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912356 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278752 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260401 035 $a(PQKB)11727938 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3027859 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000523155 100 $a19991022d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDispatches from the ebony tower $eintellectuals confront the African American experience /$fedited by Manning Marable 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-231-11476-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain -- PART ONE Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter 1 Toward an Effective Antiracism -- Chapter 2 The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution -- Chapter 3 Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean -- Chapter 4 Race and Revolution in Cuba: African American Perspectives -- Chapter 5 The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter 6 Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health -- PART TWO Mapping African American Studies -- Chapter 7 African American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands -- Chapter 8 The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth" -- Chapter 9 Black Studies and the Question of Class -- Chapter 10 Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment -- Chapter 11 Black Studies Revisited -- Chapter 12 Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class -- Chapter 13 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies -- PART THREE Afrocentricity and Its Critics -- Chapter 14 Afrocentricity, Race, and Reason -- Chapter 15 Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Student Struggles of the Sixties -- Chapter 16 Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity -- Chapter 17 Afrocentrism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality -- Chapter 18 Afrocentricity and the American Dream -- Chapter 19 Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy -- PART FOUR Race and Ethnicity in American Life -- Chapter 20 The Problematics of Ethnic Studies -- Chapter 21 Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West. 327 $aChapter 22 Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Index. 330 $aWhat constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 606 $aBlack people$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 615 0$aBlack people$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 676 $a305.896/073/0711 701 $aMarable$b Manning$f1950-2011.$0518820 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815995403321 996 $aDispatches from the ebony tower$94189611 997 $aUNINA