The History of Black Studies

Name: The History of Black Studies
Brand: Pluto Press

Pluto Press

The History of Black StudiesAuthor(s): Abdul Alkalimat\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pluto Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pluto Press\nISBN-13: 9780745344225, 978-0745344225\nSynopsis\nA surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies programmes are taught at more than 1,300 universities worldwide. This book is the first history of how that happened.\n\nBlack Studies founder and movement veteran Abdul Alkalimat offers a comprehensive history of the discipline that will become a key reference for generations to come. Structured in three broadly chronological sections - Black Studies as intellectual history; as social movement; and as academic profession - the book demonstrates how Black people themselves established the field long before its institutionalisation in university programmes.\n\nAt its heart, Black Studies is profoundly political. Black Power, the New Communist Movement, the.