Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures

This collection of essays explores the future of Africana Studies, focusing on philosophy, science, technology, poetry, literature, music, the crisis of the state, colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism. It highlights the discipline's evolution, addressing issues of gender, sexuality, politics, and cultural studies, and proposes new narratives, philosophies, visions, and scales to sustain and cultivate Africana Studies as a singular yet polyvalent mode of thinking.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 212 pages
Publication date: 07 June 2022
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.

As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigorating collection presents possibilities for the future of the disciplines theoretical paths. The essays in Africana Studies focus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and music; the crisis of the state; issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism; and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to this volume open exciting avenues for new narratives, philosophies, visions, and scales in this critical field of study—formed during the 1960s around issues of racial injustice in America—to show what Africana Studies is already in the process of becoming. Africana Studies recognizes how the discipline has been shaped, changing over the decades as scholars have opened new modes of theoretical engagement such as addressing issues of gender and sexuality, politics, and cultural studies. The essays debate and (re)consider black and diasporic life to sustain, provoke, and cultivate Africana Studies as a singular yet polyvalent mode of thinking. Contributors: Akin Ade ṣọ kan, John E. Drabinski, Zeyad El Nabolsy, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Kasareka Kavwahirehi, Gregory Pardlo, Radwa Saad, Sarah Then Bergh, and the editor

Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781439923078