African American studies

African American studies (English for African American studies ) is a branch of Black Studies or Africana studies . It is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African American people. In broad terms, it deals not only with people of African descent in the United States , but also with the societies of the entire African diaspora from the British Isles to the Caribbean . This field of study is pursued by scholars of African-American literature , history , politics , religion and religious studies , sociology and representatives of other disciplines within the human and social sciences .

history

Intensive scientific endeavors to reconstruct Afro-American history began at the end of the late 19th century ( WEB Du Bois : The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America , 1896). Carter G. Woodson , Herbert Aptheker and Melville J. Herskovits were among the pioneers of the first half of the 20th century .

Programs and institutions of the African American studies were first in the 1960 and 1970 inter-ethnic as a result of the activism of students and faculties set up, triggered by a five-month strike for Black studies at San Francisco State University . In February 1968, the San Francisco State commissioned the sociologist Nathan Hare to coordinate the first Black Studies course and to work out a proposal for the establishment of the first Institute for Black Studies . The institute was created in September 1968 and received its official status at the end of the five-month strike in the spring of 1969. The introduction of courses and institutes of black studies was a widespread demand for protests and sit-ins by a minority of students and their supporters who denounced their culture and interests considered to be underrepresented by traditional courses and academic structures.

Black studies are a systematic way to scientifically examine black people in the world - as well as their history, culture, sociology and religion. It is a consideration of black experiences and the influence of society on them and on their influence within society. This branch of science can serve to displace many racist stereotypes . Black studies analyzes history, family structures, social and economic pressures, stereotypes and gender roles .

Well-known representatives of African American studies

Humanities and academic journals

Individual evidence

↑ see Pero Gaglo Dagbovie: The early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-252-07435-6 .

literature

Fabio Rojas: From Black Power to Black Studies. How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2007, ISBN 978-0-8018-8619-5 .
Christine Knauer: African American History / African American History . Version: 1.0. In: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , June 26, 2015.

Web links

Commons : African American history - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

WEB Du bois Institute for African American Research Harvard University
African-American Studies Newsletter / The Vision (MUM00511) of the University of Mississippi , Archives and Special Collections.
Center for African American Studies Princeton University
African & African American Studies Stanford University
Department of African American Studies Yale University
Christine Knauer: Afro-American History , Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , June 26, 2015

[1] see Pero Gaglo Dagbovie: The early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-252-07435-6 .