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• W238825855 abstract "Maulana Karenga (2010: 425-429) in the Introduction to Black Studies informs us that critique and the corrective (problem solving) are indispensable to the mission and meaning of Black Studies. In this context, this essay is a dignity-affirming African centered critique and corrective designed to examine the present, the possibly distorted, the vacant and the silent issues in our disciplinary vicinity. In this context of critique and corrective, I don't think the now popular 'Africana Studies' is the correct name for the discipline that was once called 'Black Studies' for at least three reasons. First, it is a word created to describe a list of books or other materials related to Southern Africa (e.g., Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, etc.) as early as 1908 according to the Oxford English Dictionary (the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language) and perhaps as early as 1882 when the blood thirsty and cruel Reverend Duff Macdonald [he ruled with 'despotic cruelty, flogging and killing' in Malawi according to Philip Briggs] of the Church of Scotland Mission wrote 'Africana: Or the Heart of Heathen Africa', which was published in 1923. Second, the term has its roots in a racist past, particularly apartheid South Africa, although most definitions of the word are linked to books, documents or the like relating to objects from or connected with Africa, there is always a particular reference to colonial/occupied Southern Africa with a note about items of value or interest to collectors (paraphrased via the Oxford English Dictionary). And third, if Africana is such a proper name, why are there no departments of 'Africana Studies' at Temple University, Harvard University, Ohio State University, Northwestern University, the University of California at Berkeley or at other institutions of higher education in the U.S.? I think they realized that the now vogue Africana is a vociferous without prominence. Harvard University has a Department of African and African American Studies with a PhD program in African American Studies, although the head, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (and Kwame Anthony Appiah, formerly at Harvard University, now at Princeton University) popularized the term as Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience was published in 1999 (ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated a need for an encyclopedia on the African experience). Northwestern University is the home of the first African Studies program in the U.S. and the Melville J. Herskovits Library of Africana Studies (established in 1954), now considered the largest separate Africana collection in the world. However, the university has a Department of African American Studies with a PhD program in African American Studies, not an Africana Studies department as one would expect, since the term 'Africana' seem to have its academic root at Northwestern upon the founding of the Program in African Studies in 1948. And furthermore, of the eleven doctorial programs on the African world experience via their diverse names, only Brown University (organized around history, politics, and theory; literary, expressive and performance cultures; and feminism, gender, and sexuality) and the University of Pennsylvania (Spanish speaking Latin America, East Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific focused) offer a PhD in 'Africana Studies'. Perhaps one can reason that the others have not made a decision to join the 'Africana Studies' formation, considering how difficult it is to construct such a program. Therefore, I think it is very unlikely that any would be changing to 'Africana Studies' in the near future. James E. Turner (2007) argues that 'Africana Studies' is a more formal and proper terminology for the discipline than Black Studies, and thus, it is essentially about renaming self in the world of knowledge and human relations (ibid., p.75). I disagree with these assumptions, first because it was not an African project that created the term, but rather a Eurocentric enterprise that was seemingly introduced to Melville J. …" @default.
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• W238825855 title "Africana Studies: Post Black Studies Vagrancy in Academe" @default.
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