Critical Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Issues about Africa and Black America.

Critical Perspectives On Historical And Contemporary Issues About Africa And Black America

Tunde Adeleke, editor

The Edwen Mellen Press

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Organized and edited by Tunde Adeleke (Professor of History and Director of African-American Studies, University of Montana), Critical Perspectives On Historical And Contemporary Issues About Africa And Black America is a compilation of eight major commentary surveys on African-American history and experience. After an informative Introduction by Professor Adeleke, this seminal anthology addresses "Africa in the Early American Experience: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (Abel Bartley); focuses upon "The Black Press and Africa in the 19th Century Black American Struggle for Equality" (Johnson Adefila); covers "The Fragile and Utilitarian Nature of Afrocentric Consciousness and Identity: A Historical Validation (Tunde Adeleke); offers "New Light on Africa: Afrocentricity Vs. Inferiority Myths" (Randolph Meade Walker); examines "Africa, African-Americans and Eurocentric Diffusion" (Charles Jackson); documents "The Utility of Africa in the Black American Struggle: A Paradigmatic Analysis (Tunde Adeleke); explores "Rebuilding Continental-Diaspora African Relations: An Examination of Path-Breaking Trends in Governmental, Pan-African and Educational Linkages" (Victor Okafor); and concludes with "Losing Ground: Historically Black Colleges/University & International Education (Violett Baffour). A collective work of seminal scholarship, Critical Perspectives On Historical And Contemporary Issues About Africa And Black America is a core addition to academic library Black Studies collections and African-American History supplemental reading lists.