Keywords for African American Studies by Roderick Ferguson

Keywords for African American Studies by Roderick Ferguson

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.

This comprehensive but incisive collection is both born of this moment and the culmination of the decades-long project of African American studies: a collective, intellectual endeavor forged in the world and beyond itThe volume is an index of the power of Black thought, for the now and for the next. -- Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University
Keywords is an exciting contribution to the discipline, providing the genealogy of fifty words as living testaments to the past and present, and potential future directions for these words and phrases, now ubiquitous in the academy, the blogosphere, and quotidian conversations. * Journal of African American History *

Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Minnesota, 2003) and the coeditor of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization.

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ISBN 13	9781479854899
ISBN 10	1479854891
Title	Keywords for African American Studies
Author	Roderick Ferguson
Series	Keywords
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nyu Press
Year published	2018-11-27
Number of pages	272
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