In the vineyard
Subtitle: working in African American studies
By: Perry A. Hall.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: African Americans -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Historiography
Description: "The emergence of African American Studies in the 1970s filled a critical gap in higher education. Now a prominent scholar who has helped to define the contours of that field integrates personal reflection with an analysis of its development to recount the political, cultural, and intellectual issues that helped shape the discipline."--BOOK JACKET.

"A participant in the Black Student Movement in its early years, Perry A. Hall provides an insider's look at the struggle to persuade academia to accept the mission of Black Studies and the struggle inside the movement to define its objectives. He examines how the discipline evolved within the context of the wider social revolution changing the United States, showing how the presence of blacks on campuses brought about the need for new perspectives in college curricula.

And because African American Studies today represents a variety of approaches, he examines how they evolved and how they interact both within the field and with other areas of knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Struggle outward: barricades and ivory towers; title: Struggle inward: whither, then, and how?; title: Afrocentrism: more or less; title: Alternative approaches in African American studies; title: Systematic and thematic principles; title: Conceptualizing Black identity; title: The songs of Black folks; title: Crisis, culture, and literacy in the community.