Dr. Corey Walker on What Black Studies is Not?
Channel: Africa World Now Project
Date: 2021-09-17

What Black Studies Is Not? is a critique, analysis, prescription of African/a Studies. While at the same time presenting what African/a Studies is; a process of translation and recover through a long-view genealogy. In his article, Dr Carr is showing how we have come to define Africana Studies by what it is not, which has, in turn, created a crisis [distorted, hampered] for sure, but not 'killed'. Dr. Carr is arguing that to move from crisis to liberation the task is recover memory, and translation is key; developing and utilizing a long-view genealogical frame.

Joining us is Dr. Corey Walker to expand and broaden our engagement with the ideas in this text.

Corey D. B. Walker is the Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities at Wake Forest University. His research and teaching interests include Africana philosophy, critical theory, ethics, social and political philosophy, and religion and public life. His scholarship and public speaking attracts a broad audience and he provides informed commentary to a number of media outlets.

He is the author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America, co-editor with Melody C. Barnes and Thad Williamson, Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy: Can We Make American Democracy Work, editor of the “Theology and Democratic Futures” special issue of the journal Political Theology, and associate editor of the award-winning SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity. He has published over sixty articles, essays, book chapters and reviews appearing in a wide range of scholarly journals and co-directed and co-produced the documentary film fifeville with acclaimed artist and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson. He also served as book review editor and associate editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, generally considered the top academic journal in the field.


He has held faculty and academic leadership positions at Brown University, UVA, VUU & WSSU.


Article discussed: What Black Studies Is Not: Moving from Crisis to Liberation in Africana Intellectual Work [https://sdonline.org/issue/55/what-black-studies-not-moving-crisis-liberation-africana-intellectual-work]