AFRO 490: History

Abstract: This lecture talks about traditional, eurocentric history. It also explains how Black History reinterprets evidence to challenge this perspective. 

Course: AFRO 490: Rethinking Theory in Black Studies  

Instructor: Abdul Alkalimat  

Term: Fall 2011  

Unit: History- Who writes it? Who publishes it? Who reads it? So what?   

Duration: 01:44:07 HH:MM:SS

Lecture description: This is the third lecture in the AFRO 490 series. This lecture aims to answer two questions. First, what is history? What has been the history of the African American experience? Second, can we create a theory of Black history, and if so, how? It talks about the Eurocentrist traditional approach, and how Black History has emerged as a theoretical approach to reinterpret and challenge this perspective. 

Sponsor: Department of African American Studies, and Online & Continuing Education   

Course Description: This course is an introduction to various theories and methodologies rising out of the study of the Black world based on African American intellectual traditions. 45 years after Black Power posed a challenge to thinking by and about the African American experience it is necessary to rethink this legacy of changing concioussness. This is both a look at the theoretical formulations in the academic field of Black Studies, but more importantly it is thinking about how we the people can understand and be more self determining about our consciousness and how we can reorient ourselves to the fight for freedom. Now as then, we have work to do.